Gaurav Wakankar

CEO

Pune, Maharashtra, India5 yrs 9 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Head of Animation for feature film 'Heirloom'.
  • Proficient in both Eastern and Western animation pipelines.
  • Co-founder of Ghost Animation collective.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a 2D Animation Specialist with extensive experience in feature films and television.

Contact

LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Animation Direction2d AnimationCharacter Animation

Other Skills

Character LayoutAnimation ProductionKey AnimationLayoutsRevisionsStoryboardingAdobe PhotoshopTVPaintAfter EffectsAdobe Premiere ProVisual StorytellingVideo ProductionFilm DirectionTraditional Animation

About

I'm a 2D Character Animator, Animation Director, Layout posing artist. Having spent my early years as a member of Ghost Animation collective, I now work independently as a freelancer on an array of projects from all around the globe. I am proficient in animation pipelines of Eastern as well as Western industries. Check out my older showreel in the link above or contact me for the latest NDA work to get a password-protected link. Currently Head of Animation on Otter Studio's feature film 'Heirloom'

Experience

Otter studios

Animation Director / HOD

Jul 2024 – Present · 1 yr 8 mos · India · Remote

  • Animation Director on India's upcoming 2D animated feature film 'Heirloom' directed by Upamanyu Bhattacharyya
2D AnimationAnimation DirectionCharacter LayoutCharacter AnimationAnimation Production

Green street pictures

2D Animator and Cleanup artist

Apr 2024 – May 2024 · 1 mo · Remote

  • 2D Animation and Cleanup assist on Scavenger Resign season 2 concept trailer
2D AnimationCharacter Animation

Studio pivote

2D key Animator

Feb 2024 – Apr 2024 · 2 mos · Remote

  • 2D key animation for Hitman-2, a Korean feature film project.
2D AnimationKey AnimationCharacter Animation

Rezonate

2D Character Posing and Animator

Aug 2023 – Oct 2023 · 2 mos · Remote

  • 2D Character Layouts and Animation for Megan Thee Stallion : In her words Documentary produced by Rocnation
Character AnimationCharacter LayoutKey Animation

Studio mir

2 roles

Key Animator

Jul 2023 – Jan 2024 · 6 mos · Remote

  • Key Animation of main characters on the upcoming Witcher feature film sequel Sirens of the Deep
2D AnimationKey Animation

Key Animator & LO

Dec 2022 – Jun 2023 · 6 mos · Remote

  • Worked on the Marvel Animation TV show 'X'Men'97' as a Key Animator and character LO artist.
2D AnimationCharacter LayoutKey Animation

Titmouse

2 roles

2D Key Layouts / Animator

Promoted

Jun 2022 – Apr 2023 · 10 mos

  • Worked on HBOmax Sci-fi drama series "Scavengers Reign"(2023) by Joe Bennett and Charles Huettner, as a 2D character Layouts and Animator
2D AnimationLayoutsKey Animation

2D Animator & Revisionist

Feb 2022 – May 2022 · 3 mos

  • 2D animator and retake artist for a sci-fi animated drama series Pantheon. To be streaming on AMC+
2D AnimationRevisions

Blinkink

2D Animator

May 2022 – May 2022 · 0 mo

  • 2D animation for a TV commercial for Capri Sun.
2D Animation

B&b pictures

2D Character Animator

Sep 2021 – Jan 2022 · 4 mos

  • 2D animation for short films for FxCAKE, 'I Am Robot', directed by Sean Buckelew and produced by Jeanette Jeanenne

Blinkink

2D Animator

Aug 2021 – Aug 2021 · 0 mo

  • Animator for Iron Maiden - Stratego, Directed by Gustaf Holtenas

Nonemore productions

2D Character Animator

Jul 2021 – Aug 2021 · 1 mo · Remote

  • A brief stint as a Character Animator on the film The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse.

Blinkink

2D Animator

Apr 2021 – Apr 2021 · 0 mo

  • Worked as a 2D animator on "Save Your Tears" by The Weeknd and Ariana Grande in the last stretch of production.
2D AnimationCharacter Animation

Titmouse

2D Character Animator & Key Lighting Artist

Feb 2021 – Jul 2021 · 5 mos

  • Worked on "KILL TEAM KILL" an episode of Love Death+Robots Vol.3 as a 2D animator and Lighting artist, For Netflix Animation
2D AnimationCharacter Animation

Gully gang entertainment

3 roles

Director and Animator

Nov 2020 – Mar 2021 · 4 mos

  • Directed and Animated a music video for Afkap's new single Aaina

2D Animator

Promoted

Sep 2020 – Oct 2020 · 1 mo

  • Animator on Divine's- Mera Bhai (from Punya Paap). Video Directed and Designed by Debjyoti Saha

Director and Animator

Sep 2020 – Sep 2020 · 0 mo

  • Directed and Animated a visualizer for MC Altaf x Ikka - Ghost Rider. Colour keys by Samadrita Ghosh, Composited and Edited by Kushagrah Kalia.

Owl house studios limited

2D Animator

Aug 2020 – Aug 2020 · 0 mo

  • Animated few scenes for Steven Wilson's - KING GHOST (AMV) supervised by Venkatram Viswanathan

The line animation studio

Cleanup Artist

Jul 2020 – Aug 2020 · 1 mo

  • Worked as a cleanup artist for The Line, on ÅSA EKSTRÖM X ESTÉE LAUDER
2D Animation

Ghost animation

2D Character Animator

Jun 2020 – Sep 2020 · 3 mos

  • Worked as a 2D character Animator on animated music video for AR Rahman and Khatija Rahman's single Farishton. Directed by Upamanyu Bhattacharyya

Tom misch & yussef dayes - tidal wave (animated music video)

2D Animator

Jun 2020 – Aug 2020 · 2 mos

  • Worked as a 2D character animator for the animated music video Directed by Jack Brown Co Designed by Jeff Östberg ,

Gully gang

Illustrator and Animator

May 2020 – May 2020 · 0 mo

  • Illustrated and Animated visuals for 5 out of 8 tracks on GullyGang X Mass Appeal 's latest EP Shutdown.
  • Entire project was creative directed by Panini Pandey

The strokes - at the door (official video)

2D Animator

Dec 2019 – Jan 2020 · 1 mo

  • Contributed as a 2d animator for 'At the Door by The Strokes' towards the end of the production. Directed by Mike Burakoff and produced by Benjy Brooke

Pratham books

Children's Book Illustrator

Jul 2019 – Aug 2019 · 1 mo

  • Illustrated a 15 page children's book 'Lost in the Internet' Written by Kris Stokes and Madhurima Chakraborty, from Story Weaver books, Pratham Books publication. Art Directed by Sahitya Rani and chief Editor CG Salamander

Ghost animation

3 roles

Director

May 2019 – Sep 2019 · 4 mos

  • Created a 2D animated independent short film MOTHER at our Ghost Animation studio.
  • In the past year Mother has been selected in multiple international film festivals and won several awards.
  • Art directed by Mandar Mhaskar, Sound design by Studio Moebius and Music by Noni-Mouse. Animated by Ashil Shaji, Arindam Dutta, Addayta Ghosh, Yamini Sujan, Upamanyu Bhattacharyya and Myself.

Animation Lead

Feb 2019 – Feb 2019 · 0 mo

  • Project lead for Animated segments in Redbull Documentry 'Gully Life - The Story of Divine', made by Supari Studios.
  • Animation by : Gaurav Wakankar, Isha Mangalmurti, Anwaar Alam, Shaheen Sheriff

Co-Founder

Feb 2018 – Mar 2021 · 3 yrs 1 mo

  • Collective started by 6 friends has worked on various independent short films, ads, Music videos and promotional content.

Studio eeksaurus productions pvt. ltd.

2D Animator

Dec 2017 – Dec 2017 · 0 mo · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Animated a test animation Teaser for a feature project that is not public at the moment. Worked under supervision of Rajesh Thakare

Ghost animation

2D Key Animator

May 2016 – Jun 2016 · 1 mo · Kolkata, West Bengal, India

  • Interned in 3rd year of college, at Ghost Animation Collective as a Key Animator on WADE , 'City of Annecy' award winning film Directed by Upamanyu Bhattacharyya and Kalp Sanghvi

Zee entertainment enterprises limited

Stop Motion Animator

Dec 2015 – Dec 2015 · 0 mo · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Interned in 2nd year of college, for creating 8 stopmotion promos for the TV Channel Zing (Zee ent. pvt. ltd.) under supervision of Rajesh Thakare. The Project is not public at the moment
2D Animation

Freelance

Traditional 2D Animator

Nov 2015 – Nov 2015 · 0 mo · Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

  • Traditionally animated a few shots for section of the film Kutxa Beltza, Directed by Isabel Herguera.

Plexus motion

Additional Animator, Cleanup/Color artist

May 2015 – May 2015 · 0 mo · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Worked as an additional animator and Cleanup/Color artist for feature film Title sequence of Double Barrel by Lijo Jose, at Plexus post under Direction and Supervision of Upamanyu Bhattacharyya, Nikunj Patel and Vijesh Rajan

Education

National Institute of Design

Bachelors of Design (B.Des)

Jan 2013 – Jan 2018

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