Born in the Mediterranean city of Barcelona, Joan Calduch is a Designer and Art Director currently freelancing for several companies. Previously he had been Art Directing the Korean beauty brand Superface for two years. Helping on developing its branding and products since the establishment of the company.
Throughout his time at Superface, and along with his team, he was in charge of product and packaging development and design, created and managed the online stores – both front and backend, conceptualized and defined the look of the offline store unit displays and shot and edited most of the product pictures for web and media among other tasks.
Involved in the field of CGI / design and media creation for more than 10 years. Joan has worked for companies in Europe, USA and Asia developing creative and technical solutions.
Prior to coming to Superface, Joan spent five years in San Francisco where after graduating from a masters degree at the Academy of Art University of San Francisco started interning at Aatma Studio where he worked on pipeline tools for a Youtube Lab video commercial. Shortly after the completion of that project, he went to work for Third Motion, which was a cutting-edge 3D digital marketing agency focused on using avatars to build powerful and unique mobile and web experiences.
Back in Barcelona, Joan had worked developing and creating educational presentations as a teacher at the University, Centre de la Imatge i la Tecnologia Multimèdia – UPC (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya). He was also part of the EGM team, a CGI studio that was the main supplier of images for catalogues and web for the Spanish car brand Seat.
Services
DESIGN / BRANDING
Product, packaging, store displays and graphic design
WEB DESIGN / DEVELOPMENT
Wordpress management, front-backend design, newsletter design
ADVERTISING CAMPAINGS
Conceptualizing and Executing Ad Campaigns
PHOTOGRAPHY / VIDEO
Creation of media content for brand websites, publications and stores
Professional Experience
STUDIO DOOZY
September 2016 - Present
Art Director / Co-founder
Studio Doozy is a healthcare and lifestyle product design studio that aims at improving living for the ageing society. We develop products for a quality, healthy ageing at home.
SUPERFACE
May 2014 - May 2016
Art Director
Responsible for conceptualizing and aiding in the direction and creation of cosmetic products. Involved in product design / packaging / website design – development / media creation (video/photography)
THIRDMOTION
July 2012 - February 2014
3D Technical Artist
Responsible for 3d Assets creation, maintaining and building rigs (Body and Facial), camera layout, MoCap and Re-targeting to character Rigs. Also, in charge of Pipeline Tools Development for Maya (Python) and Lighting in Unity3D.
AATMA STUDIO
June 2012
Technical Artist Intern
Helped define workflows and developed Tools and Scripts to optimize and speed up several time consuming tasks. GUIs for Maya (Python) and After Effects (JavaScript) were additionally created to make scripts usable for anyone at the company.
EGM
January 2008 - July 2008
CG Generalist
Provided modeling, animation, texturing, lighting, rendering and compositing for several magazine ads for the Spanish automobile brand Seat.
CITM
September 2006 - July 2008
Faculty
Responsible for designing, implementing and teaching several classes about Photography and CGI to undergraduate students.
Education
Academy of Art University
January 2009 - May 2012
Masters in Character Animation and VFX
Worked on several collaborative animation projects, further learning and developing his generalist skills and exploring new ways of telling stories. He also focused on technical aspects, creating an online project management system and several tools for Maya.
CITM
September 2003 - June 2006
Undergraduate in Photography and Digital Media
Started studying photography but early in the undergrad Joan developed a high interest in Computer Graphics leading to his final career project where he created multiple courses teaching how to generate realistic product images using 3D Software.