Sagar Lonkar

Work History

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  Creature Technical Director

  Wētā FX

  June 2021 - Present

  Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand · Hybri

  Currently I am contributing to various assets. I am responsible for building, rigging and simulating the internal anatomy ( tissue and skin ) of a creature, in order to drive the final deformation of the skin by defining animation controls and rigging puppets to be used by animation and other departments.
  I work closely with various departments, especially Modelling, Animation, and Shots and collaborate with the Creature Cloth/Hair TDs to deliver dynamic, realistic creatures.
  Using scripts and snippets to make production workflow faster has added to my debugging skills which is a very important part while transitioning to a TD role.
  Along with prioritizing my current role, I have been involved in training new and mentoring new members of creatures.
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  mocap artist

  Wētā FX

  April 2016 - March 2017

  wellington

  Full body motion capture
  • Facial tracking
  • Facial reconstruction.
  • Facial solver setup ( Facial Rig )

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
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  Creature TD

  Cirkus

  November 2015 - March 2016

  Auckland

  • Rigging all characters : Quadraped, Biped, Birds, Fish, Props.
  • Assist to production as required.
  • Assist other departments as required with technical problems.
  • Use of scripting where needed.

• Lighting and Rendering Artist/3D Generalist

  Flux Animation Studios

  March 2015 - August 2015

  5 waima street

  Motion Capture tests using 5 PlayStation Eye.
  • Lighting and Rendering the entire sequence.
  • Cloth Simulation.
  • Quality checking the entire sequence before giving it for compositing.
  • Lighting and rendering for entire sequences.
  • Worked on prop asset creation.
  • Pre-composing the renders
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  cloth td

  Prana Studios

  December 2009 - December 2013

  Mumbai, India

  • Managed a team ( Tinkerbell and the Pirate Fairy).
  • Simulating cloth using mayancloth, syex and integrated hairsystem
  • Modied MEL scripts which can be used in production to simplify work
  • Worked closely with other departments such as Modeling, Rigging, Animation to integrate workow
  • Created Dierent Assets of Cloth to minimize production time
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  Character Effects Artist

  Prana Studio Pvt Ltd

  December 2009 - November 2013

  Mumbai Area, India

  Character Effects Artist; PRANA STUDIOS, Mumbai
  Simulating cloth using mayancloth, syflex and integrated hairsystem
  
  Work on Various Assets with Cloth ,RnD on various shots before they get into production
  
  Modified published MEL scripts to meet the current project requirements
  developed MEL scripts which can be used in production to simplify work
  
  Worked closely with other departments such as modeling, rigging, animation departments to integrate workflows
  
  Helped to Lead a team of cloth artists by making them understand work flow and pipeline and also troubleshoot simulation issues for other department members relating cloth

• Rigging , Cloth ,Line Production

  WebAnimation Studio.Pvt Ltd

  April 2009 - October 2009

  Mumbai Area, India

  My first short film where I worked as Project Manager with the Director Yogi Chopra,
  and also performed Cloth Simulation and Rigging for all the Characters.

• Rigging Artist

  Graphiti Multimedia Studio Pvt Ltd

  January 2009 - March 2009

  Mumbai Area, India

  Worked with Graphiti as a Rigging artist

• Rigging Artist

  MediaFactory Pvt Ltd

  August 2008 - December 2008

  Worked with Media Factory as a Freelance Rigging artist .