CURRICULUM VITAE

Name	: Koushik Routh

Age	: 23 Yrs

Gender	: Male

Date of Birth	: 15th Jan, 1984

Permanent Address	:6,Doctor Bagan lane, 
			Serampore,Hooghly,
			            Kolkata - 712201

Mailing Address                : Milkman Street,
                                         Ulsoor,Bangalore-560003

Bangalore Address                 : Milkman Street,
                                          Ulsoor,Bangalore-560003

Phone No			  09886129095  - Bangalore
                                           9830211621 -    kolkata
                                           033-26226004 - Kolkata
			  	  
	

WORK EXPERIENCE

Lighting & Texturing Artist / Systems Administrator
ImagesChain Animation and Design Studio, Bangalore
April 2003 to March 2004

Core Responsibilities

·	Sn.Texturing ,Lighting artist for commercial projects and GAMING.
·    Planning and sourcing content for projects 
·    Networking, upgradation and maintenance of systems

Projects

Architectural Visualization

Projects
·	Sahara India Parivar - Lucknow / New Delhi
·	Eldeco Properties - Noida
·	W.S.Atkins - Bangalore
·	Srinivas and Khan Architects - Bangalore

Work Experience
·	Lighting and Texturing Supervision and execution
·	3d Modelling of exteriors and interior spaces
·	Creating animations, virtual walkthroughs and perspectives 

3D Character and Environmental Development

Project
·	3D animated series under production

Work Experience
Character Development
·	Accurately mapping uvw textures on character models
·    Designing materials for characters and accessories
·    Providing visual variations for character appearances



Environmental modeling and texturing
·	Supervision of lighting and texturing for various environments
·	Creatively working on lighting and texturing to enhance look and feel
·	Compositing multi layered scenes for optimizing production



Sn. Texturing Artist
Paprikaas animation studios, Bangalore
From Oct 2004

Core Responsibilities

·	Creatively working and leading with 3d Texturing and BG artist of a korian project called “FFACCE” & Persian flim called “Sohrab & Rustam”
·    Planning and sourcing content for projects 
·    Providing production out put to the clints.

Projects:
            These are some of the major projects in which I have played an important role:
DETACTIVE FFACCE (oct2004 – jan2005)

Software used: 3ds max 6
Designation: Sn.Texturing & Bg artist
Duration: 45 mints

I took the core responsibility of the texturing team as a Sn.Texture artist.Creatively working with all the bgs and props.I used few thardparty plugins called – Dreamscape,natural shader,Dark tree for custom procedural texture,speed tree, few other plugins and custom max scripts.FFACCE has been nominated the best animated film in Korea (2005).


SOHRAB & RUSTAM  (feb2005 – april2005)

Software used: 3ds max7
Designation: Sn.Texturing & Bg artist
Duration: 52 mints


I took the core responsibility of this Persian project as a Texturing artist.The project is still under production.


     GAMING TEST FOR EA SPORTS (PS3 & XBOX360)(may2005 – july2005)
         
Software used: MAYA & 3ds max
Designation: Texturing artist for BG
         
           I am working for a gaming test from EA sports as a bg texturing artist and modeler. Creatively working with all gaming skills for texturing like normal mapping,mip mapping, Level of details (LOD 1 to 5).Realtime texture map for PS3 and XBOX360 futuristic games.


FARM KIDS (3d Animated series) (1st Oct'05)

Software used: 3ds max7.5
Designation: Texturing & Bg artist
Project duration: 2 yrs


I took the core responsibility of this Australian project as a Texturing artist.The project is still under production.
        
               

     Freelance / Design Consultancy
Bangalore

Projects

·	3d perspectives - Tata Consultancy Services, Bangalore
·	Architectural visualization - Srinivas and Khan Architects, Bangalore


TECHINICAL AND CREATIVE SKILLS

·	Modeling, texturing and lighting in 3D
·	Non-linear editing and digital compositing
·	Digital music and sound effects authoring
·	Systems integration, networking and maintenance


 
SOFTWARE KNOWLEDGE
·	3-D
3-D Studio Max and Character Studio
Related plugins - V-Ray, Simbiont, Deep Paint, Dreamscape etc..
Alias MAYA

·	Interactive authoring Software
Macromedia Flash and Swish
				
·	Graphic Design
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Jasc Paint Shop Pro
	 Related plugins - Autofx Dreamsuite,KPT, EyeCandy etc. 

·	Digital Editing and Compositing
Video - Adobe Premiere, Adobe After Effects and Discreet Combustion
Audio - Sound Forge and Frooty Loops Studio