Srinidhi Seshadri

Work History

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  Creature FX TD

  Framestore

  April 2022 - Present

  Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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  Lead Creature FX TD

  Framestore

  April 2022 - Present

  Montreal · Hybrid
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  Senior CFX artist

  Method Studios

  October 2019 - April 2022

  Montreal, Canada Area
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  Key Tech Anim Artist

  Mill Film

  June 2019 - October 2019

  Montreal, Canada Area

  
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  Senior Character FX Artist

  Base FX

  November 2017 - May 2019

  Xiamen, Fujian, China

  The Wish Dragon

  
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  character fx artist

  DreamWorks Dedicated Unit

  April 2014 - December 2016

  
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  technical animation td

  Rhythm & Hues Studios

  November 2007 - March 2014

  
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  Technical Animation TD

  Rhythm & Hues Studios

  June 2011 - March 2014

  Hyderabad Area, India

  Responsibilites as a Technical Animation TD
  
  - was responsible for shot execution
  - Interaction with the characters/props in the environment
  - Simulating muscles
  - creating jiggle
  - muscle flexing and firing
  - skin sliding
  Using deformers to get secondary motion on the characters
  
  As a lead
  
  - was responsible for checking and approving shots which would be sent for supervisor approval
  - debugging the issues in the shot and pipeline
  - giving artists techniques/methods to work on the shot or solve a problem.
  - work with Production Managers and supervisors to deliver the work in time
  
  Projects worked as Technical animation TD/Lead
  
  2012
  
  “RIPD” - Technical Animation Lead
  
  “Snow White and the Huntsman” - Technical Animation TD
  
  2011
  “Alvin and the chipmunks: Chipwrecked” -Technical Animation TD
  
  
  Character Rigging TD
  
  - Was responsible for rigging props
  - worked on character rigs for commercials
  
  2013
  - “Machete kills” - Rigging artist
  - Vodafone India zoozoo commercial - Rigging Lead
  
  
  TRAINING:
  
  -In September-2009 I gave training to the “Matchmove apprentice batch” which came
  from Rhythm and Hues Kuala Lampur, Malaysia branch. I was the 'SME' for the
  artists and trained them in tracking to the Rhythm and Hues production standards.
  
  -In December-2009 I gave training to the students from a animation institute “Arena
  Animation, Dilksukhnagar, Hyderabad, India” in a “Outreach Program” conducted by
  Rhythm and Hues where I went to the institute and trained the students. It was a One
  week training session on the basics of camera tracking using Maya Live.
  
  -In February 2012, I trained a batch of tracking TDs into tech anim (cloth/hair/fur/skin
  simulations)department from Hyderabad who were part of artist cross training
  program, and mentored them throughout the training.
  
  -In September 2016, I was part of training artists from various depts in Dreamworks
  Dedicated Unit into CFX dept. I handled one part of the training.