Aditi Kapoor

Work History

• Demo Artist

  Adobe 3D&I - Substance

  March 2022 - Present
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  Shading TD

  Pixar

  April 2021 - March 2022

  Set and Character Shading TD for Lightyear
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  Senior Materials/Shading TD

  Blue Sky Studios

  July 2009 - April 2021

  Day to day I write material scripts (shaders) to look-dev character assets and environments. This involves using both procedural patterning techniques as well as texture map painting. As a senior, the role includes troubleshooting and coming up unique solutions for various problems that arise when our studio experiments with new techniques.
  
  I also develop and maintain core pipeline tools that make our job easier/faster. I have developed and redesigned some of our core technologies, writing plugins and scripts as and when needed.
  
  Rio (2011)
  Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012)
  Epic (2013)
  Rio 2 (2014)
  Peanuts (2015)
  Ice Age 5 (2016 - in production)
  Ferdinand (2017 - in production)

  

  

  

  

  
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  Thesis Advisor for MFA Computer Art Program

  School of Visual Arts

  January 2012 - April 2012

  Advisement for a student's masters program thesis, specializing in 3D lighting and shading
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  Technical Director

  American Museum of Natural History

  March 2009 - May 2009

  TD for Hayden Planetarium Space Show - "Journey to the Stars".
  
  Final shot compositing, particle fx, animation, lighting.
  
  Scripted Simulation and Visualization work - which involved calculating current satellite positioning around the earth and translation into 3D software.
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  Lead Lighting TD

  Brand New School

  February 2008 - February 2009

  Lighting, Shading, Rendering, Compositing as well as pipeline tool development for small studio. Occasionally fill other roles as needed - such as project management and ensuring project organization.
  
  Project Highlights:
  
  Dodge "Guitar"
  HP "E-donor"
  HSN
  Scifi
  Toyota
  Ritz 2009
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  Lighting TD

  Stardust Studios

  January 2008 - February 2008

  Lighting for Trident Senses.
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  Lighting/FX

  Psyop

  September 2007 - November 2007

  Lighting, particles, and scripting for Guinness "Dot".
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  Lighting TD

  RhinoFX

  April 2007 - August 2007

  Lighting/Rendering/Scripting for the Kmart "Blue" branding campaign, establishing a tight workflow for a quick production schedule of continuous tv spots.
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  Lighting TD

  Brand New School

  October 2006 - March 2007

  Lighting & Rendering TD for Jeep Compass Robot spots and Chase Glow spot. Wrote MEL tools to facilitate rendering and pass creation, as well a dynamic constraining tool for the Robot animators.
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  Lighting/Fractal TD

  RhinoFX

  July 2006 - October 2006

  R&D work: scripting, fractal animation and film quality rendering for film title sequence for "Perfect Stranger" released April 2007.
  
  Also continued to support creating pipeline plugins for Temerity.
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  Freelance TD

  RhinoFX

  January 2005 - September 2005

  Temerity Pipeline plugin development and support - wrote Java plugins for their pipeline tool.
  
  Lighting and Render management work, along with MEL/UNIX shell scripting. Worked on ATI's fourth Ruby release "Cold Blooded", writing support scripts, lighting and rendering.

• Radar Development Engineer

  National Center for Atmospheric Research

  February 2002 - July 2004

  Radar Development Engineer - Embedded Systems development, application development for radar systems on VXWorks, DSP and systems support in field projects.