Sohrab Esfehani

Work History

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  Head of Department

  plume.tv

  August 2023 - January 2024

  London, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid

  Head of department at Plume of light (Plume.tv) vfx a sister company to Feed Me Light . Building an awesome department with the help of a talented team
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  CG build Supervisor

  Double Negative

  February 2022 - August 2023
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  Senior Groom Artist

  ScanlineVFX

  June 2021 - February 2022

  London, England, United Kingdom
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  Lead Character artist/ Generalist

  Double Negative

  December 2019 - June 2021

  London, United Kingdom

  Worked as lead character artist with the amazing team at DnegTV for a while before the department was affected by covid and I was transferred to Dneg film where I worked as a build/ asset generalist on lots of cool characters. Skills: Visual Effects · Computer Graphics · Creative Problem Solving · Substance Painter
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  Lead Texture And Groom Artist

  MPC

  August 2018 - September 2019

  London

  Worked as a lead texture and groom artist on Artemis Fowl and as a lead texture artist on Cats. Skills: Visual Effects · Supervisory Skills · Computer Graphics · Creative Problem Solving
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  3D Artist

  Cinesite

  November 2016 - August 2018

  London, United Kingdom
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  Lighting/Groom Artist

  MPC

  June 2016 - November 2016

  London, United Kingdom

  Lighting on Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, Grooming on The Solutrean
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  3D Artist

  Electric Theatre Collective

  May 2016 - June 2016

  London, United Kingdom

  Sculpting realistic busts, modelling stylised characters
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  3D Artist

  Cinesite

  January 2016 - May 2016

  London, United Kingdom

  Lighting and lookdev on Independence Day 2
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  3D Artist

  Electric Theatre Collective

  October 2015 - January 2016

  London, United Kingdom

  Modeling, texturing, Houdini grooming and lookdev...
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  3D Generalist

  Cinesite

  April 2015 - October 2015

  London, United Kingdom
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  Senior Groom Artist

  MPC

  July 2014 - April 2015

  London, United Kingdom

  Grooming on Jungle Book

  
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  3D Generalist

  Cinesite

  February 2014 - June 2014

  London, United Kingdom

  Modeling and texture painting on Xmen: Days of Future Past, a bit of texturing on Man From U.N.C.L.E., hair grooming and simulation on Hercules the 2014 Dwayne Johnson movie.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
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  3D Artist

  Nexus Productions

  January 2014 - February 2014

  London, United Kingdom
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  Freelance 3D Character Artist

  Playfight

  September 2013 - February 2014
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  Texture Artist

  Framestore

  September 2013 - December 2013

  London, United Kingdom

  Worked as a Texture Artist on the Guardians of the Galaxy.
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  Freelance 3D Artist

  Taylor James

  September 2013 - September 2013

  London

  I worked there for more than two weeks. Did some 3D modeling, Zbrush Sculpting, Texture painting, Shading and cloth simulation.

• Freelance 3D Artist

  Polygon CGI

  July 2013 - August 2013

  Modeling, Texture painting, Lighting, Rendering and compositing.

• Freelance 3D Artist

  Douglas Fisher Studio

  April 2011 - July 2013

  London, United Kingdom

  I worked as a 3D Artist in Douglas Fisher studio. I have been in charge of creating high quality and photo realistic 3D models and textures for CGI imagery and advertising projects. The modelling part includes both organic and hard surface modelling and also sculpting high resolution meshes. Most of the textures were required to have a huge amount of detail as the CGI images are done in high resolutions.
  
  My responsibilities also entailed doing sketches and designing characters and objects from scratch, creating shaders, lighting and rendering scenes using Vray for Maya ( also Mental ray and Mental Core on occasions), Rigging characters, creating 3D hair and cloth, etc.

• Freelance Character Artist

  SDP games

  May 2013 - June 2013

  France ( Worked remotely from London)

  I worked on a few in-game characters for SDP games. I was in charge of modeling, sculpting, texture painting and re-topologising (into lowres game topology) and outputting the maps for a number of characters.

• 3d Character Artist

  Working as a freelancer

  March 2006 - February 2011

  London, United Kingdom

  I worked as a Freelance 3D Character Artist for over five. That includes working with quite a few studios and on various projects.

• Leed Character Modeler

  Beetle Studio

  February 2008 - August 2010

  https://www.themuddyhanded.com/Page/Home.htm

• 3D Artist

  Pooyandegane Toseye Pars

  January 2006 - April 2008

• Graphic designer

  Kareno Aria

  January 2004 - March 2005