Ismini Sigala

Ismini Sigala

3D Generalist Animation Previz Postviz.

Senior 3D-Generalist / Mid-level Character Animator / 22 yrs

London, United Kingdom

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Animator

Buddi (2020)

Fast and Furious 10

Damsel (2024)

Previs Artist

Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023)

Previs Artist

The Wheel of Time (2021)

Character Animator

The Happos Family (2016)

Character Animator

Messy goes to Okido (2015)

Character Animator / Animator

Jungle Junction (2009)
CG Generalist Reel 2022
Character Animation Reel 2018
Based mainly in London and Greece with dual UK and EU citizenship!

I prefer remote work but will relocate for the right project.

Started off a Softimage generalist and character animator but now have moved on to Maya, Blender and some Unreal. I recently enjoyed workings as Previz and especially a Postviz Artist.
Work History

  • Character Animator

    MASCISTA

    December 2024 - February 2025

  • Character Animator

    The Wombles

    February 2024 - July 2024

    Character Animation for the The Wombles

  • Character Animator / 3D Generalist

    Glass Canvas

    January 2024 - January 2024
    London

    Animation clean up and tweak of creature cycles ( horses)
    Some rigging and modelling to add to the existing rigs.
    texturing/shading prep for VRay

  • Lead Asset Artist

    Matinai Animation

    November 2023 - December 2023

    Modelled and textured procedurally, hard surface models in Maya and Redshift for a gorgeous project.

  • 2D Character Animator

    KatCat Studio

    October 2023 - October 2023

    Rigged and Animated 2D cutout characters in Blender, using Grease Pencil for facial animation.

  • 3D Generalist

    Beyond The Light VFX

    January 2023 - January 2023

    3D Modelling and UVs for assets to be used in Nuke
    Rise of the Witches

  • 3D Generalist

    Beyond The Light VFX

    December 2022 - December 2022

    3D Modelling and UVs for assets to be used in Nuke
    Rise of the Witches

  • Lead Asset Artist

    Yes, Commissioner?

    March 2023 - April 2023

    Created textures and assets for a short film that will be created fully in Unreal.

  • Previs and Postvis Artist

    Proof Inc

    March 2022 - August 2022
    Remote/London

  • Previs Artist

    Proof Inc

    October 2021 - February 2022
    London, United Kingdom

  • Previs Animator

    Proof Inc

    June 2021 - August 2021
    WFH

  • 3D Generalist

    Order

    May 2018 - May 2018
    London

    I modelled, lit and rendered images for visualisation in Redshift

  • Character Animator

    Squint / Opera

    February 2019 - February 2019
    London, United Kingdom

    Character Animator in maya - birds and a bike with personality.

  • Character Animator/ 3D Generalist

    Unanico Group

    November 2019 - January 2020

    animating and fixing continuity, assets issues, a bit of rigging etc for a tv series.

  • Modeller - Animator

    Anagram Immersive

    September 2020 - September 2020
    WFH

    Asset creation and animation for an award-winning VR (oculus quest) documentary: Goliath: Playing With Reality

  • Character Animator + 3D Generalist

    Prodigious UK

    October 2020 - October 2020
    WFH

    Character Animation for an EE commercial and online campain.

  • 3D Generalist and Character Animator

    Blacklist Creative

    February 2021 - June 2021
    WFH

    Maya and Redshift

  • Animator - Generalist

    Proof Inc

    February 2021 - February 2021

    Previz and Postviz for a tvseries

  • 3D Generalist

    Spider Eye

    September 2018 - October 2018
    Penzance

    I helped on all aspects involving the making of a feature film, texturing, animating, lighting/rendering in Redshift

  • AE Animator

    Guild APP

    June 2018 - July 2018
    London

    I animated a motion graphics infographic in AE for a promo of a new App.

  • AE Animator

    Order

    November 2018 - November 2018

  • Character Animator

    Squint / Opera

    December 2018 - December 2018

    stylised humans animation

  • Pre-viz - Post viz

    Proof Inc

    February 2021 - March 2021
    wfh

  • Previz Animator - Generalist

    Proof Inc

    December 2020 - January 2021

    NDA tv series previz animation and mocap cleanup and some generalist stuff mainly texturing and modelling

  • 3D-Generalist-Char Animator

    Prodigious UK

    May 2020 - June 2020
    London, United Kingdom

  • 3D Generalist

    Prodigious UK

    March 2020 - June 2020
    WFH

  • 3D Generalist

    Saddington Baynes

    February 2020 - February 2020
    London, United Kingdom

  • 3D Generalist

    Saddington Baynes

    February 2020 - February 2020
    London

    animation, camera, shading work and render setup in V-Ray.

  • Character Animator

    Unanico

    December 2019 - January 2020
    London

    Character animation, rig fixes, animation fixes, continuity fixes, uv and texture creation

  • 3D Generalist/Character Animator

    Gramercy Park Studios

    October 2019 - November 2019
    London, United Kingdom

  • 3D Generalist

    Prodigious UK

    September 2019 - September 2019
    London

    modeling - rendering

  • 3D Generalist

    Saddington Baynes

    June 2019 - August 2019
    London, United Kingdom

  • Creature Animator, 3D Generalist and AE Animator

    Gramercy Park Studios

    March 2019 - May 2019
    London, United Kingdom

    Maya model, texture - set up and animation of some Octopus suckers.

    AE motion graphics and some comping.

    Creature Animation of Bees, Render etc

    Lighting, Substance Painter Texturing Rendering, a bit of comp and shape animation of a sweet wrapper. May, AE and Nuke

  • Character Animator

    Doodle Productions

    August 2017 - April 2018
    London, United Kingdom

    Character Animator for Messy Goes to Okido Season 02.

  • Character Animator

    Weedi

    April 2016 - July 2017
    Berkhamsted, United Kingdom

    Character Animator
    Motion Caption Clean Up
    Camera animation

    Texturing and modelling

  • Character Animator

    Spider Eye

    July 2015 - April 2016
    St Just, Cornwall

    Character Animation for BBC's, SpotBots and a bit of props rigging.
    Character Animation for Happos Family.
    Creature Animation (crabs) for a pilot.

  • 3D Generalist

    Lola Post Production

    February 2015 - June 2015
    London, United Kingdom

    For Telletubbies:

    Background Extention
    Tracking in PFTrack
    Modelling
    Shading
    Props animation.

  • Softimage Generalist

    Lola Post Production

    February 2015 - June 2015

    Background extension, tracking, modelling, shading and some animation for the new Teletubbies.

  • Concept Artist - Zbrush Character Modeller - Maya Character Animator.

    Funktion Design

    December 2014 - January 2015
    London, United Kingdom


    I was asked to create (from pencil to final render product, except rigging) 5 characters and animate them for instructional safety videos for Cruise Ships. We have completed the pilot film so far. Work examples soon when client allows it.

  • Storyboard Artist

    Above

    September 2014 - November 2014

    Storyboards for Fisher Price commercials

  • Storyboard Artist

    Above

    September 2014 - November 2014


    I did a series of detailed storyboards for a set of children's toys commercials.

  • Illustration

    Isle of Olive

    October 2014 - October 2014
    London, United Kingdom


    digital illustrations for royalty cards.

  • Softimage Generalist

    Fluid Pictures

    May 2014 - May 2014
    London, United Kingdom


    I was involved in a project that required modelling and animation that was rendered in Arnold.
    I also matte painted some maps for an other project.

  • Lighting/Render TD

    The Studio Design Projects

    April 2014 - April 2014


    I was asked to model and render some product visualizations. I used Cinema's native renderer.

  • After Effects Animator

    Hazel May

    February 2014 - March 2014
    London, United Kingdom

    Info-graphic for Danone and a Whiskey display.

  • Softimage Generalist

    Fluid Pictures

    March 2014 - March 2014
    London, United Kingdom


    Modelling an intricate model made of geomag parts, and rendering/lighting in Arnold.

  • Comic Book Artist

    Above

    March 2014 - March 2014


    I was asked to create a two page comic for promoting the Mutant Hotwheels toys.

  • Softimage Generalist

    Sky

    February 2014 - February 2014


    I had the chance to hand animate some VT screens flying off, for a Bupa commercial.

  • Adobe After FX Animator

    Hazel May

    February 2014 - February 2014
    London, United Kingdom


    I did a fun typography animation for a Danone edit.

  • Softimage Generalist

    Sky

    January 2014 - January 2014


    I was involved in two projects this time, lighting and rendering of some Game of Thrones Text prom
    and some fun dizzying pre-viz animation for F1..

  • Storyboard Artist

    https://www.above.gr/

    December 2013 - December 2013


    I did 6 storyboards for commercials.

  • Softimage Generalist

    Sky

    October 2013 - November 2013


    Lighting and Rendering/Animation of a photo real diamond for Xmas Special
    Camera moves for Ashes titles
    Modelling and texture painting (8k) for Xmas promo in Zbrush

  • Adobe After FX Animator

    Hazel May

    October 2013 - October 2013


    doing an animation for a corporate video

  • Pre-Viz Artist

    The VFXco

    September 2013 - September 2013


    Modelled/Recreated an environment and set it up for previz camera animation.

  • Softimage Generalist

    Fluid Pictures

    July 2011 - July 2013



  • Freelance Softimage Generalist

    Fluid Pictures

    July 2012 - December 2012

  • Softimage Generalist

    BSkyB

    July 2012 - July 2012

  • Freelance Softimage Generalist/ Character Animator

    66 London

    April 2011 - August 2011


    softimage generalist: character design, character modelling, rigging, animation
    lighting, rendering and matte painting!

  • Softimage Generalist

    BSkyB

    February 2010 - April 2011

  • Softimage Generalist TD

    Not To Scale

    January 2010 - January 2010


    Character TD
    3D Generalist

  • XSI Character Animator/Character TD

    Spider Eye

    July 2008 - November 2009

  • Generalist TD

    Light

    May 2008 - June 2008

  • Generalist TD

    MOMOCO

    April 2008 - May 2008

  • Maya Generalist TD

    Red Vision

    February 2008 - March 2008

  • Character Animator

    Videorama

    January 2008 - January 2008

  • Freelance Character TD

    Spider Eye

    December 2007 - December 2007

  • Maya Character Animator

    Turner Broadcasting

    November 2007 - November 2007


    Cartoonito idents

  • Previz Artist

    Chrome Digital

    November 2007 - November 2007

  • XSI Character Animator

    Addiction

    October 2007 - October 2007

  • XSI Generalist

    Entara

    January 2005 - October 2007

  • Maya Character Animator / Character TD

    Turner Broadcasting

    September 2007 - September 2007


    catoonito idents

  • Maya VFX artist

    The Senate Visual Effects

    July 2007 - August 2007

  • Rotto Artist /After FX

    Addiction

    July 2007 - July 2007

  • Maya enviroment artist/ generalist

    Mr & Mrs Smith

    May 2007 - June 2007

  • Maya Character Animator for Cartoonito

    Turner Broadcasting

    March 2007 - May 2007

  • XSI Generalist

    Windmill Lane

    October 2006 - October 2006
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Education

  • Imaginism Studios In-House Workshop in Drawing, Painting and Digital P

    Imaginism Studios

    2014 - 2014

  • character animation

    Animation Mentor

    2005 - 2006

  • MA, Computer Animation

    Bournemouth Uni.

    August 2001 - October 2002

  • BA in Graphic Design

    Vakalo School of Arts with Derby Univercity

    1997 - 1999