Pradeep Naidu

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Current State:

My name is Pradeep Naidu and I am the Lead consultant/Studio Manager for SLK Animation Studio which was established in 2010 by me & CEO of SLK group (Parth Amin).

Building the team at SLK Studio from scratch by pooling talented artists from all over India & acted as a Strong Catalyst for the success of the company within a span of one year.

Background:

I am from the pleasant town of chintamani which is nearly 70kms from the Silicon Valley of India (Bangalore).

While I was pursuing my final year degree, I came across arena multimedia and fell in love with this career instantly.

Since then my Passion & Soul of work became Animation.

WHO AM I ?

Experience:

2001 to 2003 - Jadoo works, started as a fresher and left the company as senior texture artist and also worked in fur, paint effects, facial animation, Lighting Departments.

2003 to 2005 - DQ Entertainment, Worked as Texture lead and Layout lead.

2005 to 2006 - Idea Studios, Worked as a Senior texture artist and level designer and Lighting Artist.

2006 to 2008 - Ittina Animation studios, Worked as Sr texturing and key Lighting   Artist.

2008 to 2009 - Paprikaas, Texturing lead

2010 to till date -SLK Studios, Studio Manager/Lead consultant

Organizational Skills:

Well-developed conceptual, design, and storytelling skills for animation.

I developed and improved my organizational skills, leading a highly creative team of artists and Work together with many development teams.

The challenge was to be able to coordinate and supervise the art department in order to keep high Standards of execution and concept within a given amount of time.

Coordination between the inter department teams was crucial and I gained experience in working with different departments over the years and to advise the clients in order to maintain the highest quality possible for our projects.

In plain simple words, I get work done in any given circumstances and with quality to show.

Some of my works through years as an artist, as a team lead and as a studio manager

Cartoon Series Work

Commercial and Gaming Works

Cartoon Series: Worked in show reel development for jadoo works – Paint effects ,Texturing, Camera animation, Lighting. Pet aliens (Pilot ) – Texturing and Lighting. Higgly Town Heroes – Client Disney- Texturing,Layout,Lighting. Leznouse –Client France- Layout ,Lighting. Mickey Mouse Club House –Client Disney- Texturing Lead. Quantum Ray – Lighting . Barnyard- Client Nickelodeon – Texture Lead , Key Lighting Artist My Friends Tigger and Poo (MFTP)- Client Disney- Texture Lead MFTP – DVD – Texture Lead.

Gaming : Living World Racing – Play station 2- Texturing ,Level Designing,Vertex Painting (Lighting With out Using Lights) SAO (Shields of Africa ) – Ps 2 – Texturing,Level designing. KOF – Ps 2 – Texturing.

Commercials : Allout - Client OnM – Texturing, Modeling, Lighting. Cadbury Wowie – Client –OnM - Texturing, Shading. Domestos 2 part series – Client UK- Texturing,Shading, Key Lighting.

And many more ….

Projects and Roles in Description…

Starting the Animation Division in Slk Soft Pvt Ltd. Building the Studio by hiring talented artists and setting up hardware and soft wares

required .

Projects handled :

Method – 15 sec Spot –Show reel Buggati (Car ad) – 30 Sec Spot – Show reel Watchmaker – 2 mns Short film – Show reel Cloud Computing – 2 mns presentation- client US Amity Ville – Intro For Tv Series – Client US Butterfly Effect – 2 and half D 30 sec spot – Client US Farmers Insurance – 2 and half D 30 sec spot – Client US Volt (Car ad) – 30 sec spot – show reel. VW passat – 30 sec spot for Mudra Arts – Releasing on april 2 cricket world cup final.

In a span of one year, I have made the company grow to a profitable organization.

Please visit www.slkstudios.com for a small glimpse of what we have done in an year.

Studio Manager\Lead Consultant Role at SLK Studios

With my years of experience in this industry, I feel working smart with a set of small talented artists is the key to make huge profits.

What we need is the right people and perfect blend of art and tech .

I am very confident of making this studio in to profitable organization in one year which I have already done in my present organization.

Initiator : Customer (Comes up with a job with the time or financial budget)

Approve : Studio manager( Access the situation in the team, like team strength ,hardware availability,manpower ,Deliverables estimation dates with discussion with production coordinator and vfx supervisor)

Planner: Prod Coordinator (Planing of the project with the provided manpower and team capabilities,discussion with Studio manager)

Perform : Team (Direct incharge under VFX Sup)

Communicate : VFX Sup and Prod Co

Validator : First Level (VFX Sup)

Validator : Second Level (studio manger)

Delivery: Timely deliverables Studio Manager and Prod CO.

Process in Implementing Projects

Hardware Requirements

Workstation Requirement 

Dell 7500 s for the artistsDell 3500 s for support and concept artist

Server

Server of minimum 10TB of storage space R 610 or 410 Dell

Lan ConnectionsCat6 1 gbps + supporting

switches

Render CPUsDell 2U server 410RNumbers according to requirement.

Wacom TabletsNumbers according to requirement.

Color calibrator1 number

Conference room and general RequirementsProjector

Samsung LED TV

Auto Desk Maya : around 1.29 lac per license .Auto Desk Max: around 1.29 lac per license.Nuke X : around 2.7 lac per license .Adobe suite : around 1 lac for the package.

Rendering Software : Deadline or muster costs around 1.5 lac.

Others as per requirement.

Softwares

Thank You For Your Time…Hope to meet you guys soon…

You can reach me at :+91- 98455- 25631Visa Details: I have 10 years Business Visa for USA (2010 to 2020)

My works will be shown upon request and in person

Ref : Direct Reporting Boss : Parth Amin MD (SLK SOFT PVT LTD)

Contact: +91-98441-23866

Email: parth.amin@slk-soft.com