Nikhil M. Anand

Current

Cloth Simulation / Rigging Artist at The Monk Studio

Past

Creature / Cloth TD at Independant (Self-employed)
Creature TD at Authority FX
Team Lead - Rigging & Dynamics at Sanraa Media Pvt Ltd.

Rigging TD at Freelance (Self-employed)
Character Rigger at Axis Animation
Character Rigger at Extra Large Technologies
Character Rigger at National Geographic

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Education

Gnomon School of Visual Effects

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Animation

Websites

Nikhil M. Anand’s Summary

I graduated from Gnomon in 2006. I've always been interested in the art side of technicalities which is what lead me to being a Creature TD/Artist for both game & film.

Past 3 years I've had the opportunity to work on rigging creatures, vehicles & environments. In the past 9 months I've been setting up muscle rigs for human characters in Maya for use with Motion Builder(mo-cap), working on Cloth simulation setups(n-Cloth) for a plethora of costumes & creating hairstyles for the characters in an undisclosed Hi-def film project with Plastic Wax, Australia. I recently completed work on an exciting creature film, rigging monsters complete with Maya Muscle for a US based production.

I'm right now setting up creature rigs & costumes for an animated short film. I'll also be doing the liquid simulation effects for this short along side the cloth & hair setups.

Feel free to get in touch. I'm always on the look-out for new & exciting opportunities. Its a small world..!

Nikhil M. Anand’s Specialties:

Character Rigging & Dynamics, Animation Pipeline Development using Autodesk Maya in N-Cloth, Hair & Muscle modules, MEL, Motion Builder, character setup in 3ds Max (exploring).

Nikhil M. Anand’s Experience

Cloth Simulation / Rigging Artist

The Monk Studio

(Privately Held; Animation industry)

October 2009 — Present (2 months)
Creature / Cloth TD
Independant (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Entertainment industry)

May 2009 — October 2009 (6 months)
Creature TD

Authority FX

(Motion Pictures and Film industry)

May 2009 — September 2009 (5 months)

At AFX, I worked on the 2 main creatures for the feature film Volcanic. The rigs comprised of high end muscles for simulation & PSD components which were referenced by the animation rig for pipeline efficiency.
Team Lead - Rigging & Dynamics

Sanraa Media Pvt Ltd.

(Animation industry)

April 2008 — May 2009 (1 year 2 months)
Rigging TD
Freelance (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Media Production industry)

2008 — 2008 (less than a year)
Character Rigger

Axis Animation

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Animation industry)

June 2007 — September 2007 (4 months)

Here's the link to the project of which I was a part of when I was with Axis.

http://www.axisanimation.com/index.php?id=979&loc=Work
Character Rigger

Extra Large Technologies

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Animation industry)

May 2007 — May 2007 (1 month)
Character Rigger

National Geographic

(Privately Held; Animation industry)

December 2006 — December 2006 (1 month)