ARMANDO RICALDE General Manager and Visual Effects Producer on Ollin VFX. Founded in 1998 in Mexico City, Ollin VFX is one of the largest visual effects producers in Latin America. Since 2006, Ollin has worked on major films and series such as Zodiac, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Tron Legacy, Pirates of the Caribbean, House of Cards, Deadpool, Suicide Squad, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle and Godzilla: King of Monsters, to name a few. Armando studied computer graphics while studying physics at Mexico's National Autonomous University, where he provided community service in projects supporting astrophysics research.

Between 1998 and 2001, he produced several award-winning 3D animations for the University's Astronomy Institute. Doc, as he is known, began his career in VFX in 2001 at Ollin Studio as a CG artist, working in modeling, shading, currency effects, particles and fluids. Later, he worked as a freelance artist in many advertising projects and during this time, he was vice president of the professional chapter of ACM SIGGRAPH in Mexico City. In 2004, he co-founded Cluster Studio, an agency that offered creative services, animation, visual effects and post-production for the Mexican advertising industry, quickly becoming one of Mexico's largest and most important producers.

During his 13 years at Cluster, he has held various positions, from artist to CTO, passing through CG Supervisor and VFX Supervisor. In 2014, Armando was honored with the Shotgun Pipeline Hero Award in its first edition. Currently, Ollin VFX is working on the fourth and final season of the Mr. Robot series.