Pritish Dogra

CAREER OBJECTIVE
To grow as a Cg Artist with an Animation/Visual Effects/Gaming company where I can best utilize my creative and technical skills.
 
CORE SKILLS
Character Animation,  Character Rigging, Python/Mel Scripting

TECHNICAL SKILLS
Animation
Maya – Expert
XSI – Advanced
3ds Max - Advanced
Character Animation Toolkit - Advanced

Rigging
Maya - Expert/Advanced

Programming Languages
Python Scripting - Expert/Advanced
Mel Scripting  – Expert/Advanced

WORK EXPERIENCE
Lead Rigger/Senior Animator at Ettamogah Studio, Melbourne, Australia
December 2009 – Present
Rigging:
Maintain and creating rig assets by using existing rigging pipeline
Develop python based tools to speed up the rigging process
Animation:
Develop Animation pipeline for overseas productions along with other animators

Senior Animator at Ettamogah Studio, Melbourne, Australia
July 2009 – December 2009
Senior Animator:
Season 1 of Lil Larikkins"
Also wrote various Animation tools in order to speed up the animator's workflow

Freelance Animator at Ra Productions/Polytronik, Wellington, New Zealand
March 2009 – May 2009
Animator:
Season 2 "Action Central"

Animator at Brown Dog Media, Wellington, New Zealand
November 2008 – December 2008
Animator:
Working on various corporate presentations

Animator at Weta Workshop, Wellington, New Zealand
February 2008 – October 2008
Animator:
"The Wots Wots" TVS.

Freelance Animator at Personal Studio, Auckland, New Zealand
November 2007 – February 2008
Freelancing for
-Grinding Gear, Auckland, New Zealand
  Project: "Path of the Exile" [In Development]
-Liquid Development, Portland, USA
  Project: "Freaky Creatures"

Rigger/Senior Animator at Photon Animation, Auckland, New Zealand
June 2007 - November 2007
Senior Animator:
“Adventure of Voopa the Goolash”
Rigger:
“Adventure of Voopa the Goolash”
Used in house tools, along with using Maya deformers to create unorthodox and simplified rigs for over 150 props and 20 sets.

Rigger/Senior Animator at Photon VFX, Gold Goast, Australia
April 2007 - June 2007
Rigger/Senior Animator:
Action Dann
Rigger:
“Adventure of Voopa the Goolash”
Modified rig by using in house tools

Animator/Assistant Rigger at Huhu Studios, Warkworth, New Zealand
January 2005 - April 2007
Animator:
"Buzz and Poppy"
"Hermie and Wormie"
Previs Artist/Animator:
"The Pond"
"Ten Commandments"
Assistant Rigger:
"Ten Commandments"
Skinned and Created Blendshape for over 40 Human Characters, along with using in house tools.

EDUCATION
2003-2004
3D Animation and Visual Effects Diploma
Vancouver Film School, Vancouver, Canada

1999-2002
Bachelor of Commerce (Honours)
Shri Ram College of Commerce,
Delhi University, India

1999-2001
DNIIT programming course
NIIT Mayur Vihar, New Delhi, India

REFERENCES
On Request

INTERESTS & ACTIVITIES
1) Reading Science Fiction Books
2) Playing Computer Games.