Experience
Associate Designer & Animator (Contractor)
CNN Digital Design Team (May 2016 – Present)
Working within the Snapchat team under tight deadlines to concept, design and animate new visuals every day to support their various news stories.
Motion Design & Animation Intern - Witness & Co.
Winter Internship (Jan 2016-May 2016)
Every step of design process from concepts, to storyboards, to animatic including 2D, 3D, and everything in between from flat infographics in After Effects to photorealistic 3D renderings. Volunteer - Motion Graphic Designer & Animator
CNN International (Jan 2016 – Feb 2016)
Collaboration Class Project, Crawford Media Services, Inc. & Atlanta Jewish Film Festival (Fall quarter 2015)
Designed and created the festival opening sequence for festival marketing and branding for 2016.
Responsible for Rotoscoping & Designing the process book. Design Head, Decision Craft Analytics (Feb 2009 – Sept 2012) Requirements gathering from clients, mockup design, wireframe, design approval, production planning, acceptance testing. Areas include: UI design, Web Design, Graphic Design, Print Design, Landing Page Optimization.
Exhibition / Conference - New York, USA, (March’10) Onsite exhibitor and designer for booth design and branding for a software company at SMX Conference, NYC, USA, 2010. Visual Merchandising - Sr. Visual Merchandiser, Pantaloons Retail India Ltd. India (2007 - 2008)
Responsible for designing company merchandise (store space, indoor-outdoor display, product catalogue design, backdrops, etc.) Design Head, Decision Craft Analytics (Sept 2004 to Mar 2006) Responsible for Web Design, Graphic Design, Print Design. Develop new website, landing page design layouts in Photoshop and Dreamweaver, Website maintenance.
Web Designer – Ace InfoTech (Aug 2001 to Oct 2004) Responsible for designing website templates and authoring html pages based on the Photoshop design files (PSD to HTML). Education
Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), Atlanta, GA. Fall 2013 to Winter 2016 BFA Animation
Dean’s List of Honors: 5 quarters
Course of study included life drawing, digital modeling, rigging, lighting, look development, 2-D and 3-D animation. National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT), Gandhinagar, India
2005 to 2006 CE in Fashion Retail Management
Course of study gives an overview of the concept of visual merchandising and lays emphasis on customer relationship management, brand management and sales management. Arena Multimedia, Ahmedabad, India
2000 to 2001 Advance Diploma in Multimedia
Course of study includes Adobe suite, web and multimedia designing.
Sheth C.N. College of Fine Arts, Ahmedabad, India
1996 to 2001 Diploma in Fine Arts Majors Graphic Design Course of study includes detailed aspects of Fine arts, Graphic Designing, Layout and Color Combination in relation to Print, Web and Commercial Media.
Professional Skills:
Software:
Autodesk Maya, Toon Boom Harmony, Adobe Photoshop CC, Adobe Premiere, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Dreamweaver CC, Adobe Illustrator CC, Adobe InDesign, Acrobat, Microsoft PowerPoint. Production:
Animation, Visual Development, Storytelling, Storyboarding, Motion Graphics, Website Design - HTML 5 AND CSS6, Brochure Design, Publication Design, Logo Design, Poster Design, Business Cards, Stationary work, Outdoor Ad Design
Nisha Singal. animator . motion designer
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