Hello, my name is Glo Minaya. I’ve worked in the animation industry for 23 years, first in commercial work, then at Disney and now most recently at Reel FX. Even after all that time, I still have a passion for creating beautiful images in the most efficient and elegant way. I use my artistic and technical sides to work hand-in-hand to help me create.

In 2013, Reel FX launched Reel FX Animation Studios. After years of service work, including short and long form films, ride projects and commercial work, the studio created a banner to develop and produce our own films. We have been successful in this with the latest film being The Book of Life (20^th Century Fox), which we are very proud of and it seems so are the critics as it has been nominated for many awards, including several Annies (winning for Character Design) and a Golden Globe.

At Reel FX, I’ve had the pleasure of serving both artistic and technical roles. I was the Digital Supervisor on a stereoscopic 3D presentation for the Radio City Rockettes which integrated with live dancers.

In that role, I oversaw the entire show, working closely with the client, our internal supervisors and artists to get the look of the project just right to create the style and feel the client was after all while making sure the tech was going to work with their stereoscopic projection system. Most recently, I was the back-end CG Supervisor on The Book of Life.

We built an entirely new pipeline for the back-end for this show so my job included not only the execution and optimization of the surfacing, lighting and rendering, but also the guiding, testing and implementation of the new pipeline and tools.

We have a site license and all employees have access to it. Employees are encouraged to further their training if they have any downtime.

Fast and easy access to Digital-Tutors has help our artists quickly learn the basics of any new software we are implementing into our studio. Recently we used MARI, Houdini and Mantra to surface, light and render the Book of Life and it really helped our artists lay a foundation to get started in these software. When learning new software, our artists love it. It really gets their feet wet and gets them rolling.

Reel FX is always trying to find efficient ways of helping keep our artists trained in the latest technology. Ease of access, having a site license setup and having all that info available for all employees was a strong factor in drawing Reel FX to Digital-Tutors.

Absolutely! The fact that all that knowledge and training is at your fingertips is invaluable. And there is so much variety to the offering that it is a good way to for students to explore and have exposure to the many different disciplines within the CG industry.

I love Digital-Tutors!  I love to learn and this site is a gold mine for someone like me. Being in the industry for as long as I have, I have seen many technologies come and go and Digital-Tutors affords me handy access to learn new tools and techniques.

I will also access your tutorials to open my mind to different ways to execute CG. This leads to playing new videos not necessary in my specialty just for fun, and helps to widen my understanding of the CG process. I also LOVE it that you are working with more coding training sites. I intend to spend some time this weekend checking out coding offerings.

I love that you are widening your training to include more coding since that is an important and powerful skill to learn or improve when you are in this industry.