Arvin Bautista, Creative Director

Arvin with the stars of his X-Men fan films – Sage Montclair as Lila Cheney, and Gentry Roth as Dazzler

Greasy Pig Studios is Arvin Bautista, a director, motion designer, animator, VFX artist, and editor based in Los Angeles.

Born in the Philippines, raised in New Jersey, and a graduate of the University of Southern California, Arvin’s first major project was  My Suicide (also known as Archie’s Final Project), as animation director. A powerful independent film starring Gabriel Sunday, David Carradine, Joe Mategna, and Nora Dunn, it won the Crystal Bear at the 2009 Berlin Film Festival.

Greasy Pig Studios has worked on thousands of episodes of TV, including hit shows like Guy’s Grocery Games, Restaurant Impossible, The Great Food Truck Race, My Lottery Dream Home, and Tournament of Champions, comedy specials for Whitney Cummings, Ali Siddiq, Taylor Tomlinson, Bert Kreischer, and Anjelah Johnson-Reyes. He also worked on VFX for Adult Swim’s absurdist series Decker, and music videos for Caroline Polachek and OneOhTrix Point Never.

As a director/producer, Arvin helped develop all three seasons of Leon Acord’s award-winning webseries, Old Dogs & New Tricks, directing most of the episodes and supervising the directing and post-production. He also directed the sci-fi short film Vultures in the Void, starring Tommy “Tiny” Lister, Bai Ling, Brooke Nevin, and David Franklin.

Arvin also created and developed Framed by the Killer, a three-episode true-crime miniseries on Oxygen, executive-produced by rapper/actor Ice-T.

A giant comic book fan, Arvin created two award-winning fan films set in Marvel’s X-Men universe: one starring Dazzler, and another starring Lila Cheney and the New Mutants.