Dhruva Pathak

Work History

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  FX Lead

  DreamWorks Animation

  September 2009 - Present

  Design and develop special effects for DW movies

  

  

  

  
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  CG Programmer

  Prana Studios

  September 2006 - September 2009

  Developed toolsets and systems:
  1) Foliage (Maya Plugin Suite)
  2) Optimized/Modular Streamed Caching System for Assets (Maya Plugin Suite)
  3) Hair Modelling Tools (Maya Plugin Suite / RenderMan Procedurals)
  4) Particle Spatial Affector System (Maya Plugin Suite)
  .. and miscellaneous scripts/tools for pipeline integration

  
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  Sr. R&D Programmer

  Tata Elxsi

  March 2006 - September 2006

  Developed procedurally generayed toony smoke and a feather system in Maya

• Sr. R&D Programmer

  India Games

  2006 - 2006

  Developed an optimsied lightweight game engine for NVidia mobile chipsets