sagar rathod

Work History

• Creative Director

  Studio KDSR

  September 2020 - Present

  London

  
  Creative director, writer and director for an animated children T.V series.
  Freelance at various animation studios around London.

• Creative Director

  Studio KDSR

  March 2018 - Present

  London, United Kingdom

  Freelance at various VFX studios.
  
  Web3 and Oculus Artist on Earthly and 'RelieveVR' App.
  
  Pre-Vis/Post Vis & UE4 Artist / Animator:
  Ridley Scott’s ‘Napoleon’ (2023).
  Elona Holmes 2 (2022), We Have a Ghost (2022), One Piece (2022), Argylle (2022).
  The Old Guard 2 (2022) and Enchanted 2 (2022).
  
  Pre-Vis on 'Brahmastra' (2022).
  
  CG Lead on 'How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming' (2020).
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  CG Lead

  Jellyfish Pictures

  February 2019 - August 2019

  London

  How to Train Your Dragon : Homecomng.
  
  Cloth setup, Hair setup and crowds in Maya
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  Lead Vfx Artist

  Not To Scale

  January 2018 - March 2018

  London, United Kingdom

  Lighting / Lookdev for Lastminute.com TVC
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  Senior Vfx Artist

  Prime Focus World

  May 2017 - October 2017

  London, United Kingdom

  Senior Pre-Vis / Shot Creator on feature film 'Brahmastra' (2020)
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  Lead Vfx Arist

  unit9

  November 2016 - December 2016

  London, United Kingdom

  Lead/ C.g supervision on Samsung Gear VR experience. Art Direction off cg elements. Lighting and look dev in Arnold.
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  Senior Vfx Artist

  Argon FX

  September 2016 - October 2016

  London, United Kingdom

  Senior Pre/Post - Vis artist on 'Alien - Covenant' (2017), 'Kingsman - Golden Circle' (2017) and 'Murder on the Orient Express' (2017).
  

  

  

  
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  Lead 3D Artist

  Saddington Baynes

  August 2016 - September 2016

  London, United Kingdom

  Lead Artist - Honda CRV – Pre vis, modelling and Lighting in Vray.
  
  https://www.saddingtonbaynes.com/work/favourites/honda-rvtd
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  Senior Vfx Artist

  Cinesite

  June 2016 - August 2016

  London, United Kingdom

  Cloth T.D on 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them' (2016).

  
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  Senior Vfx Artist

  Zoo VFX

  February 2016 - April 2016

  London

  Senior Artist – V.R experience for Burj Khalifa on Samsung, combining live action and Cg. Lighting/look dev and comp
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  Lead Vfx Artist

  unit9

  January 2016 - February 2016

  London, United Kingdom

  Lead Artist – Full Cg V.R experience for Samsung. Responsible for Art Direction and Lighting/Look dev in Arnold.
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  Senior Vfx Artist

  Method Studios

  October 2015 - December 2015

  London, United Kingdom

  CG Generalist , Lighting and Look-dev on 'Geostorm' (2017).
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  Senior Vfx Artist

  The Third Floor

  August 2015 - September 2015

  London, United Kingdom

  Post-Vis on 'King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017) . Nuke Compositing and Animation.
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  Senior Vfx Artist

  MPC

  August 2015 - August 2015

  London, United Kingdom

  Pre-Vis animator on Turkish Airlines commercial.
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  Senior Vfx Artist

  Lipsync Post

  May 2015 - July 2015

  London, United Kingdom

  3D Artist on ‘Olympus’ (2015) for SyFY channel. Responsible for look-dev and lighting using Arnold Renderer.
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  Senior Vfx Artist

  Double Negative

  December 2014 - May 2015

  London, United Kingdom

  Senior Cloth T.D on 'Antman' (2015) and layout on 'Avengers - Age of Ultron' (2015)

  
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  Cg Supervisor

  Fgreat Studio

  October 2014 - November 2014

  London, United Kingdom

  Cg Supervision on animated Xbox One promo . Responsible for Lighting and character animation.
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  Senior Creature Technical Director

  Framestore

  November 2013 - August 2014

  London, United Kingdom

  Dracula Untold (2014)
  Marvels 'Guardians of the Galaxy' (2014)

  

  

  

  

  

  
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  Senior Vfx Artist

  Passion Pictures

  August 2013 - September 2013

  London, United Kingdom

  Commercials ' Meerkats' and 'Charmin'
  Fx and tech-anim.
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  Senior Vfx Artist

  Zoo VFX

  January 2013 - July 2013

  London, United Kingdom

  Artist on David Attenboroughs - Micromonsters and Rise of Animals T.V series.
  Lighting and animation.
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  Senior Vfx Artist

  Drive Productions

  October 2012 - October 2012

  London, United Kingdom

  Senior artist on 'Eircom' T.V commercial utilizing 3D and 4D video mapping.
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  Creature Technical Director

  Framestore

  February 2012 - July 2012

  London, United Kingdom

  Gravity (2013) - Creature Technical Director / Cloth Td

  

  
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  Senior Vfx Artist

  Prime Focus World

  March 2011 - December 2011

  London, United Kingdom

  Mirror Mirror (2012) - Lighting Technical Director
  Dredd (2012) - Lighting and Generalist Technical Director
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  Generalist T.D

  Framestore

  2007 - April 2011

  London, United Kingdom

  Film Credits:
  Johnny English Reborn - Lighting/Look dev T.D
  Barclays Commercial - Lighting/Look dev T.D
  Warhorse - Creature T.D
  Primeval 3 - Lighting T.D
  Nanny McFee 2 - Creature T.D
  Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 - Creature T.D/Cloth
  Avatar - Layout
  Dredd - Pitch Viz/ Storyboard/Anim/Lighting
  Prince of Persia - Character T.D/Cloth and Hair
  Sherlock Holmes - F.X / RBD
  Australia - Creature T.D Groom
  Where the Wild Things Are - Rigging
  Tale of Despereaux - Rigging
  The Golden Compass - Creature T.D/Tech Anim

  

  

  
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  Pre viz artist and animator

  Nviz

  September 2006 - November 2006

  Fred Claus (2007) - Pre Viz Animator
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  Vfx Artist

  MPC

  June 2006 - September 2006

  London, United Kingdom

  Commercials:
  Churchill commercial. - Lighting T.D
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  3d Artist/Animator

  Oktobor (New Zealand)

  January 2006 - April 2006

  New Zealand

  Commercials:
  Caltex commercial - Effects T.D, Lighting T.D
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  Vfx Artist/Animator

  MPC

  July 2004 - January 2006

  Commercials Division - various projects
  Highlights:
  National Lottery commercial - Lead Modeller, Lighting, Hair Sim
  Hogfather T.v mini series- Lighting T.D
  Stella Artios commercial , dir Brian Glazer - Animation, Generalist
  
  Feature Division
  Poseidon (2006) - digital double modelling

  
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  Vfx artist/animator

  Peerless VFX

  August 2003 - July 2004

  London

  Brothers Grimm (2004) - T.D, Animation, Lead Modeller
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  Vfx artist/animator

  Peerless Camera Company

  August 2003 - July 2004

  Brothers Grimm (2004) - T.D, Animation, Lead Modeller
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  Vfx Artist

  Rushes

  June 2003 - August 2003

  London, United Kingdom

  Around the World in 80 days (2003) - Technical Animator, Generalist

• Character Animator

  Asylum Entertainment

  February 2002 - March 2003

  London, United Kingdom

  Character animator for PS2 game 'Eye of Isis'
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  3d Artist

  The Mill

  2003 - 2003

  London, United Kingdom

  Goldfrappe music promo - Set Modeller
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  Character Animator

  Oniria Pictures

  March 2001 - October 2001

  Luxembourg

  Bob's Beach (2001) - Character Animator