Prashant Dhotre
Lighting Artist/Lead/Supervisor/Lookdev TD (10+ years)
Senior Lighting TD / 17 yrs
Montréal, Canada
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Cell : IND : +91 9833261688
Resi : IND : +91 22 21715565
dhotre.prashant@gmail.com
Skype : prashantd1308
Show reel : https://vimeo.com/294431733
[PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY]
Skilled, experienced and versatile Lighting Artist/Lead having 9+ years as Lighting professional
in Hollywood VFX Industry And 5 years as 3D artist experience. Worked as a Leader / team member and as an independent Artist. Adapts new solutions and works well under pressure - meeting all challenging and mission critical deadlines. Obsessed with creative challenges beckoning 3d solutions. Having good knowledge of International pipeline and work flow for films.
[PROFESSIONAL AREAS OF EXPERTISE]
• Lighting for films to match 3D element / props with live plate, look dev of CG assets,
and lighting full CG environments.
• additional skills : • Modeling • Texturing • Lookdev
• 3D prop, vehicle and set modeling, characters •Cartoon style, Low poly Characters ,
Vehicle modeling and texturing for Next-Gen console / PC games
[ SOFTWARES ]
• Maya • 3D Studio Max • Photoshop • Illustrator • Fusion • Nuke •
• Renderers: Clarisse, Render man, Arnold, V–Ray, Guerilla Render (REYES), Mental ray, Katana
• Office software: Shotgun/ MS Word/excel/Power Point • OS: Linux /Windows 2000/XP / DOS/Unix
[ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES]
Working as Sequence Lead/Sequence Supervisor/ Lighting TD/Lookdev Lead
• Shot Lighting, Asset Lookdevs.
• Creating and publishing HDRI, Lighting rigs, setups.
• Creating HDRI environment projections for interactive Lighting.
• Creating and maintaining shot Lighting template. Shot breakdowns.
• Creative workflow in CG department from modeling, Texturing, lookdev and Animation.
• Managing shots within teams. Day to day Trainings for Artists. supervision.
[EMPLOYER / WORK HISTORY & PROJECTS] Visual Effects
MPC : Key Lighting Artist
Doolittle (2020)
New Mutant (2020)
Topgun (2020)
Working as Lighting TD/ Sequence Lead
Double Negative Visual Effects ( Since Jan 2015)
•(2018) Art of Racing in the Rain ( Lighting Lead) In Production.
•(2018) Bad Times at the El-Royale - Lighting Supervisor/ Lead Lighting TD
•(2018) Mission Impossible - CG Sequence Lead. - In production
•(2018) Red Sparrow - CG Sequence Lead.
•(2017) Thor Ragnarok - Lead Lighting TD ( Uncredited )
•(2017) Blade Runner 2049 - CG Sequence Lead/ Supervisor
•(2017) LIFE - CG Sequence Lead / Supervisor ( lookdev to shot production)
•(2016) Huntsman 3D Lighting Lead
•(2015) Hunger games- Mocking Jay ( part 2) - Lighting TD London facility
•(2015) Avenger Age of Ultron - Lighting TD London facility
Prime Focus Ltd ( 6 years)
Worked as Lighting Lead / Artist / Sequence Lead on movies and ad films
• (2014) Sin City 2 as Lighting Lead - Prime Focus Mumbai for 6 seqences ( 400+ shots)
• (2013) White House Down Lighting Artist Prime Focus London ( Arnold)
• (2012) Yellow environment Lighting - Prime Focus Mumbai ( Mental ray )
• (2012) Storage24 Mumbai; Creature Lighting ( Mental ray )
• (2012) Dread VFX Artist - Prime Focus London (Guerilla Render)
• (2012) Mirror Mirror Lighting Artist - Prime Focus London (Guerilla Render)
• (2011) Scream 4 - 3D Artist ( Mental ray )
• (2010) Successfully Finished Test of Hollywood movie “TRON - Lighting Lead (Vray )
• (2010) Worked on Hollywood movie Robin hood (2010)
Bollywood:
• (2010) Worked on SLB’s Bollywood Film “Guzarish” Got Apsara award for best VFX (Seq Lead)
• (2009) film “Tum Mile” – Seq.Lead shot won the best VFX shot of the Year – FICCI BAF award .
• (2009) film “Blue” • film “Wanted” (Indian) •Film “ HISS”
• (2008) Warner Bros Movie - Chandani Chowk to China (the CG Shanghai City.)
• Ads: Whirlpool, Maxo , LG, Maruti K series and lot others.
[EDUCATION]
• B.com from University of Mumbai 1992. (Passed Intermediate Drawing and Painting Exam)
• Multimedia Programme from Microcell Graphics. (Animator pro, 3D Studio R3.0 & Pshop in 1996.)
• Completed Short term course 'Multimedia Concept & Applications' from CEDTI - Aurangabad in 1997.
References :
Jermey Hardin : CG Supervisor - MPC - jeremykhardin@gmail.com +44 7805275607 ( Ex-Dneg)
Christopher Ryan : CG Supervisor - Method studios VAN - nogardvfx@gmail.com +1(778) 862 -1337 ( Ex PF )
Vaibhav Marathe: Sr.Compositor ( Weta Digital) - getvama@yahoo.com +44 7886477705
Ean Carr: DFX Supervisor - MPC - vfx@eancarr.net ( Ex-Dneg)
Nandkumar Payalkuthan : Sr.Comp supe +610429446123 nairpayankulath@gmail.com ( Ex PF )
Work History
Education
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Commerce, LAW
Mulund College of Commerce, TMC Law College - Thane
1989 - 1996