Resume | sanathshekar

Artist/Designer

About Me

I enjoy creating visually striking effects that brings out the wow factor in a game. Every assignment I work on becomes a passion project for me. There is something about designing and crafting special effects that thrills me beyond description. In addition to creating my own art assets, I am adept at taking existing art assets and weaving them to suit the needs of an effect. Self-motivated and enthusiastic I go after the best ways to produce visual effects that are as realistic, fantastical or stylized as projects require.

RESUME

Experience

VFX Artist, May 2017 – Jan 2018

Telltale Games Inc, San Rafael, California

I worked at Telltale Games as a VFX Artist supporting my team create awesome effects for our games. Using Telltale's proprietary game engine, I have created and implemented various particle effects and geometry based visual effects for games such as Batman, Guardians of the Galaxy and Minecraft.

Games worked on:
1) Minecraft - S2E01, S2E02, S2E03, S2E04, S2E05
2) Guardians of the Galaxy - S1E03, S1E04, S1E05
3) Batman - S2E01, S2E02, S2E03, S2E04

Game Intern (VFX Artist), Oct ’16 to Apr ‘17

Side Effects Software Inc, Toronto, Canada

Using Houdini to create real-time RBD, Pyro, Smoke and Fluid Simulations in game engines.
Converting Fluid Simulations into 3D Flowmaps to run in Unreal 4.
Creating flipbook animations of Pyro, Smoke, Steam and Explosions.
Creating vertex animation textures to run Houdini Simulations in Unreal 4.

Freelance FX Artist, Mar'16 to Oct'16

Indie Clients, Various Locations

Scripting fire propagation effects in Unity 3D game engine using C#
Create flipbook animations for Flames/Smoke using Houdini, Unity3D Particle Systems
Model, Rig & Animate demo character for game testing using Unity3D’s Mechanim
Create shaders & materials for fire, smoke and heat distortion using ShaderForge for Unity3D
Developed and published a puzzle based video game called Knight’s Tour on itch.io

Freelance 3D Artist, Nov '15 to Jun '16

Volcanic Lightning Games, Kentucky, USA

Worked on Volcanic Lightning Games' Booty Hunters as a freelancing 3D Artist
Booty Hunters is a pirate adventure game developed for the mobile phone platform
Role includes 1) creating environment props, 2) 3D models/assets and 3) Texturing

Adjunct Professor - Advanced Survey of Computer Art Applications, Mar '15 to May '15

Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, USA

Conducted undergraduate classes to teach students graphic design & 3D modeling applications
Applications include Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, After Effects, Maya
Responsible for creating syllabus, course materials and grading rubrics
Responsible for grading & evaluation of students' works

Teaching Intern - Modeling & Texturing for Games, Jun '13 to Aug '13

Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, USA

Assisted professor in coaching students with course difficulties
Conducted classes exposing students to new modeling techniques

Education

Bachelors of Computer Science (Honours)

University of Western Australia, Australia

Masters of Fine Arts (Game Design)

Savannah College of Art & Design, USA

Skills

Level Design & Scripting in Unreal 4
Unity C#
Object Oriented understanding of C/C++
3D texturing with hand-painting & photographs.
Low & high poly modeling and texturing
Resourceful & Passionate about learning new skills & techniques
Able to work well in a team

Software/Tools

Telltale Tool Game Engine
Maya
Houdini
Zbrush
Mari
3D-Coat
Photoshop
Unreal 4 & Blueprint Scripting
Unity 3D
Headus UV Layout
After Effects