Yash Chauhan

Yash Chauhan

Lead groom artist / 8 yrs

Mumbai, India

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Work History
  • Lead - Groom

    MPC

    December 2022 - Present
    Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · Remote

    Skills: grooming · Visual Effects · Team Leadership · Houdini

  • Grooming Lead | CFX

    Fractal Picture

    July 2022 - December 2022

    Skills: Team Leadership · Xgen · paragrine labs yeti · Autodesk Maya · Houdini

  • groom artist

    Squeeze Studio

    July 2022 - September 2022

    - worked on Grooming for CG characters as well as Props
    - Used Maya xgen for character grooming
    - worked on 3 projects in about 2 months, projects include grooming long female hair, short stylized hair, shading and hair lookdev using Redshift Renderer.

  • Groom | CFX Artist

    Fractal Picture

    July 2021 - August 2022

    - worked on grooming creatures, digi double characters, and bird feathers for upcoming VFX movie.
    - used Autodesk Maya xgen for fur/hair grooming, and Peregrine Labs Yeti for grooming Feathes.

  • Groom | CFX Artist

    88 Pictures

    November 2020 - June 2021
    Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · Remote

    - worked on Grooming CG Characters.
    - my primary role incudes grooming, used Maya xgen and Peregrine labs Yeti to groom character hair and animal fur.
    - worked on cloth and hair simulation for short period of time.
    - Developed Houdini Setup which Automate, process of creating particle and export in shot production for Project which requires Particle Scatter on mesh for Stylized output.
    - used Maya Bifrost and Developed point scatter workflow for project. Developed custom bifrost Compound to automate asset creation.
    - worked as key grooming artist on Test Projects for studio. Skills: Peregrine Labs Yeti · Unreal Engine · Maya Bifrost · Autodesk Maya · Houdini · xgen

  • Groom Artist

    ReDefine

    February 2020 - November 2020
    Mumbai Area, India · Hybrid

    - worked as Grooming Artist
    - Appointed Team lead and used Houdini to create Realistic Groom for digi double characters for upcoming high-end VFX movie.
    - helped teammates to learn Houdini Grooming.

  • CHF Artist

    Anibrain

    August 2019 - February 2020
    Pune Area, India · On-site

    - worked on Setting up Houdini Grooming workflows for hair and fur, and Setting up Houdini cloth rig and multilayered cloth simulation setup.

  • CHF Artist

    Prana studio

    August 2018 - July 2019
    Mumbai
  • CG Artist and Team Lead

    Prana studio

    January 2018 - September 2018
    Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
  • CG Artist

    Prana studio

    January 2017 - January 2018
    Mumbai Area, India

    at Prana my Responsibilities include,

    * working on LEGO Project
    * make Models of given scanned geometry with clean Topology
    * make different LODs of model and UV it for different purposes,
    * Bake normal map from high LOD to low.
    * ingest model into Clients pipeline tool and QC.

  • 3D Artist

    Rangam Infotech Pvt Ltd

    April 2016 - August 2016
    Ahmedabad Area, India · On-site

    At Rangam Infotech I was Intern For 5 Months,

    * Used Blender Software
    * Responsible to do Modelling, Lighting, Texturing of Given environment
    * Character Poseing and Rendering.

Education
  • High School in Science

    S.H Highschool of Commerce

    2010 - 2012