Soumava Das

Work History

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  Lighting TD

  Framestore

  January 2023 - October 2023

  Melbourne, Australia
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  Senior Lighter

  InfiniteWorld

  January 2022 - October 2022

• Senior Lighting Lighting Artist

  Dreamview Studios California USA

  November 2020 - December 2021
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  Key Artist - Lighting

  MPC

  February 2018 - May 2020

  Montreal, Canada Area

  Working in lighting and rendering several sequences that involve
  CGI integration onto live action footage and/or entirely CGI
  scenes. Troubleshooting and establishing look and feel of the
  characters/props/environments.
  Responsibilities: Lead small groups of artists in lighting and
  rendering several sequences, having done the hero lightrig and
  other setups such as passes and lookdev overrides myself.
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  Lighting Artist

  MPC

  June 2013 - June 2017

  Bengaluru Area, India

  Using Industry Standard 3D packages to recreate the accurate lighting
  environment that was used at the time of live shooting by placing digital
  lights in 3D space, defining material properties, tweaking shaders,
  painting and/or modifying HDR imagery, working with shadows,
  reflections and refractions of different materials, managing renders in
  various passes and compositing the rendered elements together into the
  final output on node based tools. Visual, analytical, aesthetic and
  technical problem-solving in 3 dimensional space as well as the entire
  production pipeline. Solving existing problems and predicting potential
  problems along with possible solutions. Conducting sessions to provide
  in depth insights into the technicalities, aesthetics and using available
  technology for advancement. As with all specialities, working on projects
  of varying visual style, ranging from stylized to hyper-realistic,
  conceptual or real characters, props, creatures, Earthly or
  extra-terrestrial elements

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
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  Lighting Technical Director

  Rhythm & Hues Studios Private Limited

  June 2008 - November 2012

  Hyderabad Area, India

  Using the studio’s proprietary 3D packages to recreating the accurate lighting environment that was used at the time of live shooting by placing digital lights in 3D space, defining material properties, painting and/or modifying Hdri imagery, working with shadows, reflections and refractions of different materials, managing renders in various passes and compositing the rendered elements together into the final output on mostly node based tools. Visual and analytical problem-solving in 3 dimensional space as well as the entire production pipeline. Solve e
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  Lighting Artist

  DQ Entertainment International

  March 2008 - May 2008

  Hyderabad Area, India

  Using Maya to develop 3D light rigs for fantastical stylized environments, sets and characters; tweaking shader properties, creating passes, launching sequence renders and troubleshooting.