Sandesh Pai

Sandesh started his career way back in 1994 on Amiga 4000 (which is defunct now), on a software called lightwave3D. He then traveled from OHRI grafix working on documentaries to an Ad Agency called Situations to handle their 3D product shots. Since then Sandesh has worked with studios like FX Factory, Western Outdoor, TATA Elxsi and Tatvah. He finally ended up at Prime Focus where he was the lighting team lead.

Although Sandesh has been a generalist for about 10 years of his career, for the last 3 years he has been doing what he enjoys the most and perhaps is the most critical part of the output - shading and lighting. His key achievement has been to lead a team of fresh artists, who had just a working knowledge of lighting, into seasoned lighters.

Through his in-depth understanding of the entire CG pipeline and his vast experience in the production Sandesh can be termed as a veteran of the 3D design. He provides a strong technical and artistic support to each and every member of his team and adds significant value to every project he is involved in.

Ashish Pradhan

Starting as a production assistant to now being a VFX Supervisor, Ashish has been a part of the industry for the last 10 years. He started his career as an assistant editor with Edit Solutions after his Graphic Design Diploma at XIC, Mumbai. In between Edit Solutions and working as a production assistant with various directors, he realized his strengths and started training on Discreet’s Flame at Famous Studios as a Compositor. At the age of 18, he has been the youngest Flame user in India. From then on Ashish has worked with the most eminent studios in India such as Pixion, EFX Prasad as a Flame Compositor and then joined TATA Elxsi as a lead Flame Artist and 2D supervisor. He established himself as a VFX and on-set Supervisor at Tatvah and Prime Focus.

Ashish’s forte is 2D compositing, but over the years he has gained thorough understanding of the 3D component. This enables him to have an artistic and visual overview of the entire project from conception to execution.

His methodical and well-researched approach vis a vis his communication with the Director and the DOP has him contributing to the job right from the prep stage. He adds great aesthetic value to every job, troubleshoots all artists and is always striving to be better than before.

Faramarz Wankadia

As a child Faramarz saw the world through the eyes of an artist. As years passed his interest in adding colors and concept to his world became his inspiration. He wanted to back his creativity within with sound qualification and started learning commercial arts at RBCS (Mumbai).

This gave wings to his inspiration and took flight in the world of Visual Effects. Faramarz’s career took off with United Studios Limited as a Generalist. His thirst for more kept growing and directed him to an international Company B.Inc. Faramarz increased his knowledge and experience and transited from being a Generalist to a Motion Graphics artist to a Compositor. Finally after 6 years of R&D in different studios he is now a Pre-Visualizer with Prime Focus Ltd.

He is competent at managing a team and resolving any issues impacting cameras, layouts and onset shoot requirements. Faramarz also is skilled at liaisoning with people at different levels. He has an eye for detail and is very focused on enhancing the final output of every shot assigned to him.

Aakash Shivdasani

Armed with a masters diploma in animation and VFx from the Art Institute of Vancouver in Canada, Aakash found his way back to India 7 years ago and put in boot camp at EFX Prasad .From there he moved on to TATA Elxsi and then Tatvah to end up as modeling supervisor at Prime Focus .In between he did a stint for Ken Ghosh’s planned animation setup acting as consultant for their in-house show reel comprising 2 minutes of pure CG work generated by the small team at his disposal .This was executed in 2 months.

Aakash has an overall generalists knowledge of several aspects of the 3d process but his forte is modeling and developing virtual worlds and sets.

He brings an exposure and aesthetic to every project that has been honed by his other passions for travel and voracious reading.