​LAURENTO JOVITO FUA

I'm Laurento Jovito Fua. People in the industry usually call me by my nickname, Ringjo. 

 

I was born in the Philippines in 1976. Watching lots of cartoons and reading comic books growing up got me into drawing at a very young age. Although I wanted to enroll in Fine Arts in college, I ended up having a Bachelor's Degree in Architecture instead. But as faith would have it, right after graduating in 2000, I was hired by Imagineasia Digital Animation Studio, one of the first 3D animation studios in the country. I took up a 6-month training course by the studio using Softimage 3D before becoming a full time 3D Animator. I worked on a couple of animated shorts and a direct-to-video animated feature.

 

In 2003, I landed a job at Digital Eye Candy where they were making the full-length animated feature, Hoodwinked, using Maya 4.5. I was Animation Lead for the character Twitchy, the hyper-active squirrel. Around that time, there was also a growing need for 3D artists in the local film industry. In the pursuit of honing my animation skills, I took freelance jobs as CG animator for big post-production houses in the Philippines where I got to animate on VFX-heavy live-action films.

 

By 2006, I started working for AmbientMedia as a Senior 3D Character Animator where I worked on the Philippines' first full-length 3D animated feature, RPG Metanoia. During the course of the production, not only was I able to further improve my animating skills, but I was also involved in storyboarding, character design and making conceptual artwork.  

 

In 2012, I joined Clockwork Visual Effects, a visual effects studio based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, as a full-time 3D Character Animator where I work remotely in the Philippines for the most part. I worked on TV commercials involving properties that I could only dream of back then, properties such as Spider-Man, Transformers and Angry Birds, to name a few.

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In 2014, I started working for Barajoun Entertainment, an animation studio also based in Dubai, as a Senior 3D Character Animator where I worked on Bilal: A New Breed of Hero.

 

Ultimately, I love animating. And I always strive to be the best at what I love doing most. 

 

-Ringjo Fua