abhay sawant

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About

Blog : http://abhayartist.blogspot.com About me : I`m resident of Mumbai, India. I have completed bachelor degree with first class in Drawing & Painting from Sir J. J. school of fine art through Mumbai (Bombay) University,I did my specialization in Portraiture and Mural. After graduation I did large number of commercial work in paintings, murals & some pre production works as well for tv series & movies in india.Over the period I have made the best use of my knowledge and skills which I developed through academic and post academic studies. I have 8 years of professional working experience in art & design & then almost 5 years of experience for cg/vfx film industry & I consider myself lucky to have an experience working with best talents & studios of this industry. I have very good traditional art (drawing & painting) background with knowledge of color theory & 2d lighting, I am well versed with digital painting & texturing as well. to sum of it.. I always believe in dreams & likes bringing them to life.

Country

india

City

bombay

Industry

motion pictures and film

Skill

texturing, digital painting, drawing, painting, shading, maya, fine art, art, photoshop, texture painting, storyboarding, modeling, mudbox, 3d texturing, illustration, concept design, character design, mari, adobe photoshop

Experience

texturing and concept artist for characters

utv action

2008-2 - 2008-12 · 11 mos

Worked on : 3d animated feature “The Dream Blanket”, Having knowledge of 2d painting & 3d texturing helped me to work with 3d design team & 2d painting team to develop hand painted textures for 3d characters according to the character concept art. I managed to work with art director, technical director to work on Possibilities & complexity levels of texturing process. I painted couple of character concepts as well to make them production friendly for further development process.

texturing artist

rhythm & hues

2010-11 - 2013-1 · 2 yrs 3 mos

* Rhythm & Hues is a multiple Academy Award®-winning production studio specializing in computer animation and visual effects for feature films and television commercials across the globe * Worked on several Hollywood projects including one commercial * Fulwanti & Slim-C (animated short) * TVC for Wells Fargo * Hop (2011) * Alvin & the chipmunks - Shipwrecked (2011) * snow white and the huntsman (2012) * Chronicle (2012) * Life of Pi (2012) * Percy Jackson - Sea of monsters (2013), Got official credit in movie credit list * Grown Ups 2 (2013), Got official credit in movie credit list * seventh son (2014)

texturing and shading artist

prana studio

2009-12 - 2010-8 · 9 mos

* Worked on 3d Animated Features : * Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue(2010) * Gladiators Of Rome (2014 release) * Documentaries and Audio/Visuals * Dream Big - next generation mobile technology (Worked on visual effects) * 3d animated Short film for Unitech group (a construction company)

texturing artist

crest animation studios

2007-3 - 2008-1 · 11 mos

* Worked on 3d animation feature films and series - * Alpha and Omega ( 3d animated feature film) * Back at the Barnyard (3d animated TV series) * Word World (Season-1, 3d animated TV series)

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prime focus world

2013-10 - 2016-7 · 2 yrs 10 mos

* Hollywood movie projects (present) * Patient Zero (2016) * The Huntsman Winter's War (2016) * Inferno (2016) * Projects (past) * Sin City: A Dame to Kill For * 2014 (Worked on several Digidoubles & Environment Elements) * Chronicles of the Ghostly Tribe * 2015 (Worked on Bat creature & several Digidoubles) Got official credit in movie credit list * Legend of the Ancient Sword * Worked on Dragon creature) * The Journey of Flower * worked on couple of concept creatures)

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double negative

2016-8 - Present · 10 yrs 2 mos

A Dneg - PFW collaboration Academy Award winner motion picture company Working on various assets for several Hollywood movie projects / TV series

Education

sir j j school of art

drawing

1991-1 - 1996-1 · 5 yrs 1 mo

sir j. j. school of fine art

drawing

1991-1 - 1996-1 · 5 yrs 1 mo

1: Participation in several Art exhibitions and workshops during college period. 2: Received the ‘Late Prof. S. B. Palsikar award for Best Portraiture’ (oil on canvas) in annual art exhibition (1996) 3: Received Maharashtra State level Award for Graphic Print (1995) Activities and Societies: Participation in several Art exhibitions and workshops during college period. Received the Late Prof. S. B. Palsikar`s award Best Portraiture (oil on canvas) in annual art exhibition (1996). Received Maharashtra State level Award for Graphic Print (zinc plate etching) in 1995.