Arun kumar Boyidapu

Work History

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  Senior Lighting Artist

  Framestore

  August 2023 - August 2024

  Melbourne, Australia
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  Senior Lighting Artist

  Framestore

  June 2022 - August 2023
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  Senior Lighting Artist

  Method Studios

  October 2021 - June 2022

  Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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  Lighting Lead

  Double Negative

  January 2020 - October 2021

  Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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  Key Artist - Lighting

  MPC

  April 2018 - January 2020

  Bengaluru Area, India
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  Senior Lighting Artist - Film

  MPC

  February 2017 - March 2018

  Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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  Senior Lighting Artist

  VHQ Media

  March 2016 - January 2017

  Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

  Responsibilities: lighting, precompositing and rendering.
  - Setup and maneuver light rigs for a scene, to seamlessly blend CG characters/assets with the environment and background.
  - Manage and optimize renders to achieve highest possible standards with an efficient render time as per need.
  - Understand and visualize art directions from supervisors and directors.
  - Basic first pass compositing before handing the shots over to the compositors.
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  Lead - Lighting And Compositing

  Sparky Animation

  March 2015 - February 2016

  Subang Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia

  Working with producer and/or project manager to meet production schedule. Setting Up master lighting direction for CG show with Lighting/Compositing Artists. Conducting briefings and meetings with Lighting/Compositing Artists to make sure they have good understanding on the issues and challenges in each assignment. Providing guidance to Lighting/Compositing Artists in achieving correct lighting and colour direction on individual shots in different CG shows. Working with the lighting/compositing TDs to establish optimum and effective lighting, rendering and compositing workflow and pipeline for CG shows.
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  Senior Lighting & Compositing Artist

  Sparky Animation

  February 2011 - January 2015

  Singapore

  I worked on Animated TV series. My roles and Responsibilities includes that of setting up Master Light Rig for the Environment and the Characters, Shot Lighting ,Setting up of Passes and rendering the Passes and Compositing the passes and rendering out of the final shot.
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  Texture/View Paint Apprentice

  Lucasfilm Animation

  July 2010 - January 2011

  Singapore

  Its a professional apprenticeship training program specialized in Texturing. During the program, I was trained by the professional Experts from Industrial Light and Magic (ILM), and got an opportunity to work on the actual assets for Lucasfilm’s Upcoming Digital animated feature film. The training program helped me
  grow as a better artist and understand the various aspects of this Digital Feature Pipeline.
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  Background Texture artist

  Visual Computing Labs -Tata Elxsi Ltd Mumbai

  July 2007 - July 2010

  Worked as BG Texture and Shading Artist.
  My Roles and Responsibilities were to UV layout, Texture paint and Surfacing of the props and Sets. Additionally I also took the responsibility of BG lighting When ever there was necessity. During My tenure I worked on some of the prestigious Animated features and TVCS like Arjun-The warrior Prince, Roadside Romeo, WINX - II Kelloggs, CavinKare, TATA MOTORS, 3M..and so on...

• Lighting and Texturing artist

  RAYUDU VISION MEDIA LTD Hyderabad India

  August 2006 - July 2007

  Lava-Kusa - Animation feature film - Texture, Lighting and Shading Artist.
  UV layouts and Texturing of Characters and Various Background elements.
  Lighting of the shots and matching the Lighting of the characters and prop elements according to the lighting of the Matt painting Backgrounds.
  Toon Shading the Characters and Prop elements using Mental Ray Contour Rendering.
  Rendering of all the assigned shots in various passes.
  Aadhaar Sunflower Oil - TVC - Texture, Lighting and Shading Artist.
  Texturing of photorealistic Product pouches.

• 3D artist

  ARS Frames Pvt Ltd

  January 2006 - August 2006

  Worked as 3D and VFX artist for various Regional Feature Films that involved the work of Title animations, Rotoscoping, Wire-Removals, Colour correction and Other Cleanups.

• Executive Producer

  SUPERHIT FRIENDS Pvt. Ltd. Hyderabad, India

  April 2003 - August 2003

  Worked for the Independent Live Action Feature Film “Chantigaadu” (Telugu – Regional Film)
  My responsibilities were to manage the whole crew and ensure smooth progress of the whole movie through with various aspect of production and post production.
  To look after the whole financial management of the movie and ensuring it to be within the limits of the budget provided by the producers of the Movie.