Keshav Kaurav

Keshav Kaurav

passionate Animator

Animator / 15 yrs

Adelaide Australia

Currently working at Ubisoft as a senior animator, I have also been associated with Mill Film Australia' Mirayi Animation, Rock-Star Games , Streamline Studio , and DQ Entertainment.
Working since 2009 during these years worked on couple of movies like Prodigies , Nazha , few AAA games like Read Dead Redemption 2 , GTA-5 , Ashes of Creation, Samurai Showdown. and some good quality series ,like The jungle book , The Adventure of Peter Pan, Arthur and the Minimoys, Micky Mouse club house etc
Work History
  • Animator

    Industrial Light & Magic

    December 2023 - Present
    London
  • Key Animator

    Mr. X

    July 2019 - December 2019
    Adelaide, Australia

    Worked as a key animator on a couple of movie ‘Love and Monsters’ and 'Finch'
    Role:
    Responsible to deliver key shots.
    Work closely with lead and anim sup to ensure the quality and deadline.

  • Senior Character Animator

    Agora.studio

    January 2020 - June 2020
    Montreal, Quebec, Canada

    Worked on a VFX show ‘Siren'. Animated water creatures, and mermaids.

  • Senior Character Animator

    Wizart

    June 2020 - November 2020
    Voronezh, Russia

    Worked on ‘Secret magic control agency’ movie. Animated key characters.

  • Senior Cinematic Animator

    People Can Fly Studio

    November 2020 - April 2022
    Warsaw, Poland

    Working on high-end AAA game cinematics.

  • Senior Animator

    MPC

    May 2022 - November 2023
    London, England, United Kingdom

    Working on major films

  • Senior Animator

    Mill Film

    December 2018 - July 2019
    Adelaide, Australia

    Working as a key animator on a major Hollywood movie.
    also worked on another creature based movie ( yet to release ).
    Role:
    Responsible to deliver key shots.
    Create tools to improve production speed.
    Help team members to understand project and studio pipeline.
    Work closely with lead and anim supervisor to ensure the quality and deadline.

  • Creature Animator

    Streamline Studios

    May 2018 - May 2018
    Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Core team member on Major shows , specialist in realistic creature animation and Game animation

  • Senior Character Animator

    Mirayi Sdn Bhd

    September 2016 - April 2018
    Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Handling most complex creature scenes , and working on pilot animation , involve in company's IP development

  • Cut scene Animator , creature Animator , Ingame Animator

    Rockstar Games

    June 2014 - August 2016
    Bengalore India

    responsible for Cut scene Animation, creature Animation , In-game Animation

  • Character Animator

    DQ Entertainment

    April 2009 - June 2014
    India

    I grown here from trainee animator to a senior animator , worked on lots of international projects , Like Jungle book , Peter Pan , prodigies (Movie ) , Iron man etc

Education
  • Fantasy Creature and Flying Creatures

    iAnimate

    January 2019 - March 2019
  • Post graduate diploma in Animation

    April 2008 - March 2009
  • post graduate diploma in Animation

    DSYW

    February 2008 - February 2009
  • Masters of art

    Barkatullah University

    July 2002 - June 2004
  • Master of Arts - MA in Art/Art Studies, General

    Saviour College, Bhopal

    2002 - 2004