Currently working with Marza Animation Planet on their projects. My second workplace in Japan. Involved primarily in the Facial & Body Rigging for the characters. I am responsible for building and maintaining complex Rigging systems for human, creature and mechanical characters. I also collaborate with animators, modelers and the tech team to ensure the quality, aesthetics, data integrity and performance of the Rigs.

Originally, I moved to Tokyo, Japan to work with Polygon Pictures as a Character TD. To start a new adventure, work with a new team, new language and a new alien world.Hoping to be a valuable and humble addition to the wonderful team here.

As a a consultant Pipeline TD, I joined here for a short while to help in the development of the studio pipeline.Took responsibility of creating tools to solve bottlenecks in the workflow between departments. The tools I developed were publishing tools related to:1. Asset management2. Arnold Standin workflow3. Shader Import-Export management4. Alembic cache management

As a CreatureTD I worked on different kind of rigs, developing tools with MEL & Python,Cloth, Hair. This project is a Feature Film “Strange Magic” which released in January this year (2015). After working exclusively on Rigging (including cloth sims setup), I moved to simulation where our team worked on cloth/hair/rigid simulations on shots for the entire show. Simulations were done on ILM’s proprietary software “Zeno” where I also created personal scripts to automate my daily simulation workflow. I worked closely with my Creature Dev supervisor and animators to develop animation-friendly rigs, guidelines according to project requirements and created various scripts/instructions to increase riggers and animators efficiency.Projects:Strange Magic(Feature Animated Film) Character/Creature Setups, integrated with full custom setups/muscles/cloth/hair.Sculpting deformation shapes for rigged characters to be used as pose-driven blend-shapes.Create animation/rigging tools for internal workflow Cloth & Hair simulation on hundreds of shots. (Shot-simulation)

Worked on specific project-based work setting up Creatures\Characters\Props, raising the bar individually + with the team.Working with a very stable Team who have proved themselves both in handling whatever challenges that come as well as being like a family in itself.Time well-spent, Experience well-gained.Projects: Gladiators of Rome (Feature Animated Film)Rigged quadrupeds and bipeds exploring some new ideas as well as sticking to the existing pipeline Handling requirements, Troubleshooting Problems for Animation\Hair-Fur Depts.Took a Seminar on Basic Scripting & Python in Maya for the Team

An Rigging Crash Course in Maya for a batch of 8 students.How to THINK Rigging. Including but not limited to:Basic Mechanical setups - Constraints, Attributes, Set-Driving ObjectsControl Rig setup for a Biped Character - IK and FK, Wrapping up the setup, Skinning your CharacterTroubleshooting known technical issues

Due to (and taking advantage of) the current recession-stricken Animation Industry Scenario, I'll be taking a break for a while from a job. I'll be undertaking Freelance work as it comes.Areas of Work:Mainly Character Body Setup, Deformation Rig, Facial Setup, Mechanical Setups & Other Advanced setups as required.

Worked as a Lead Rigging/Setup Artist, managing a team of 10 people alongside with my friend and colleague Wasim Khan.We worked on every area of rigging including Hero/Background/Crowd Characters, Creatures, Props, Sets, Deformations, Dynamics, Facial animation interfaces and other various pipeline tools required by other Departments.And our Team never disappointed.Projects: Mahayoddha Rama (Feature Animated Film) Rigged many types of characters, many with custom setups and muscles Created a set of scripts to allow setups/rigs to be finished quickly and easily to allow all bipedal characters to be similar in structure which additionally allowed us to import mocap data through MotionBuilder Rigged a different set of characters specifically for crowd simulations in Massive Had a hand in creating various scripts/instructions for Riggers/Animators to increase work efficiency

Rigging Quadrupeds & Bipeds as part of a Feature Film Project as well as worked on a couple of advertisements involving CG/VFX.Projects:Roadside Romeo (Feature Animated Film) Rigged many characters, sets and propsSpeed Racer (Animated Film) Rigged a number of characters using some self-made scriptsTararumpum (Animated Song in a live-action film) Cloth simulation in a sequence using Syflex Helped in solving technical problemsBig Foot Murray (Test Project) Animated the main character for a singular character testDrona (Vfx Live Feature film) Rigged a single revolving weapon to be used by a live characterBajaj Allianz (Advertisement) Worked on the cape (cloth) in all the scenes using SyflexBoomer (Advertisement) Rigged the villain, a Robotic Character

My First Studio Experience started here. Starting with Layouts, I further went ahead learning and working on Rigging, Cloth, Hair, Dynamics for various Animated projects.Projects: The Prince and the Pauper (DVD Animated Movie) Rigged many Characters, handled technical problems Bratz (Test Project) Handled technical problems Jungle Book (DVD Animated Movie) Rigged many Characters, handled technical problems Robin Hood (DVD Animated Movie) Rigged many Characters, handled technical problems Freej (Animated Series) Helped solve technical problems Shrek (Test Project) Rigged a Quadruped Character Christmas Carol (DVD Animated Movie) Project Lead Zula Patrol (Test Project) Handled the Dynamics part of the Characters Kong: Return to the Jungle (DVD Animated Movie) Rigged a number of characters, vehicles and gadgets Led & Managed a Team of four for a short time Magic Cellar (Animated Series) Led & Managed a Team of two for the latter half of the Project Responsible for Syflex/Maya Cloth simulations as per scene requirements Honk, Toot & Swo-Swoosh (Animated Series) Layouts - Created 3D Scene/File setups for animators