Devdatta Nerurkar

Work History

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  CFX Artist

  Sony Pictures Imageworks

  November 2014 - Present

  
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  rigging artist

  Mikros Image

  November 2013 - September 2014

  Montreal, Canada Area
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  Cloth/Hair TD on Smurfs 2

  Sony Pictures Imageworks

  November 2012 - May 2013

  Vancouver, Canada
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  Creature FX TD on Gravity

  Framestore

  February 2012 - July 2012

  London, United Kingdom

  -Cloth Simulation on complex character assets
  -Worked on shots consisting of long frame ranges
  which involved meticulous preparation prior to simulation
  -Set up cloth parameters to ensure that desired look was
  achieved
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  TD Hair/Cloth - Arthur Christmas by Aardman Animation

  Sony Pictures Imageworks

  February 2011 - August 2011

  Culver City, CA

  -Cloth and Hair Simulation for the animated feature
  -Finalized about 70 shots involving a multitude of characters (hero bipeds,quadruped,background character and prop)
  -Set up rig and simulated with maya ncloth where prop simulation was required
  -Worked with pipeline tools Spandex and Grease to setup cloth and hair scenes respectively
  -Used proprietary software Tango and maya ncloth for cloth behavior
  -Parallel usage of Katana and maya for hair dynamics
  -Finalized the look with use of maya deformers
  -MEL scripting to build rig, linux shell scripting to execute commands
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  Rigger - Real Steel

  Digital Domain

  January 2010 - January 2011

  Venice CA

  
  -Involved with the live action feature doing rigging and cloth simulation
  -Rigging of base skeleton for robots to hand over to motion capture studio
  -Animating during pre production on top of mocap data for fight sequences between robots
  -Development of rag doll behavior simulation for the robots with softwares Endorphin, MotionBuilder
  -Set up custom rig to simulate broken wires with maya hair dynamics
  -Simulated dynamic chains with maya ncloth
  -Simulated loose vibrating skin for a CG Bull
  -Wrote MEL scripts to build cloth rig for the bull and wire rig for broken wires
  -With maya hair dynamics simulated a mohawk for one of the robots
  -Linux shell scripting for executing commands
  
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  Integration Artist- Tron Legacy

  Digital Domain

  March 2010 - June 2010

  Venice CA

  
  -Performed camera tracking on stereoscopic shots
  -Match Moving of CG Objects
  
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  Rigging Intern- Percy Jackson and the Olympians:The Lightning Thief

  Digital Domain

  September 2009 - January 2010

  Venice CA

  
  -Simulated loose skin and wrinkles,using Maya ncloth, for the ten headed Hydra creature
  -Created jiggle behavior for the Hydra using Maya Muscle
  -Wrote MEL/Python scripts to streamline tasks
  -Set up and animated deformers on top of simulation to enhance performance