*Over 14 years of solid feature film experience having worked on VFX heavy and full length animated feature films on a variety of commercial and proprietary softwares.
*Ability to self supervise and deliver production shots in the most efficient manner with/without pipeline support.
*Skills and expertise to come-up with intelligent solutions/tools that arise on the production.
*Solid understanding and ability to deliver animation and simulation rigs using Maya.
*Ability to script tools using mel/python and C++ API.
*Have groomed and led a team of technicalAnimators/CFX artist on multiple productions.
Work History
CFX Artist
Industrial Light & Magic
March 2024 - February 2025
Vancouver, Canada
Lead/Senior Cfx Artist
MPC
September 2021 - April 2022
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Worked on a Disney project as a Lead, Senior Cfx Artist,leading a small Cfx team.
CFX Artist
Industrial Light & Magic
August 2022 - September 2023
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · Remote
Mandoloria 3, Ultraman, Atlas.
Lead Cfx Artist
MPC
August 2021 - April 2022
Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers.
Lead CFX Artist
Mill Film
June 2019 - March 2020
Australia
Sr.Cfx Artist
Sony Pictures Imageworks
February 2019 - May 2019
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Creature FX TD
Industrial Light & Magic
July 2018 - January 2019
Vancouver, Canada Area
Sr.CFX Artist
Sony Pictures Imageworks
January 2018 - July 2018
Vancouver, Canada Area
CFX
Tau Films
October 2017 - November 2017
cfx artist
Mikros Animation India
January 2017 - April 2017
Bangalore
Develop CFX Tools
CFX artist
DreamWorks Dedicated Unit
January 2014 - January 2017
Cloth and Fur artist at DDU.
Character FX & Setup Artist
Rhythm & Hues Studios
October 2005 - August 2013
Worked as a technicalAnimator/characterFx TD on the following projects as a senior/Lead TD
*Seventh Son(upcoming)
*Snow White and the Huntsman
*Red Riding Hood
*Yogi Bear
*Alvin and the Chipmunks(Part I and II)
*Night at the Museum(Part I and II)
*The Golden Compass.
Have done cloth and hair(fur) simulation. Done technical fixes on the rigs and resolved issues.
I have also worked as a Character setup TD on
*Land of the Lost(major props and multiple insect characters) and
*Prime time commercials like Alpenliebe(Crow,Crocodile) and Amaron Batteries
Have worked as a lead Character TD for 'Magic Cellar' a South African television production.
Rigging/Setup Artist
UTV
June 2004 - October 2005
Worked in the position of lead rigger. Rigged all forms of Organic characters. Also setup cloth (Maya and Syflex).