Nico Sanghrajka

Character TD - CG Artist

Last updated: 2014-03-15

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EXPERIENCE:

08/2008 - present

PDI / Dreamworks

Redwood City / CA

www.dreamworks.com

USA

Character TD

I worked on Megamind, Kung Fu Panda 2, Madagascar 3, Mr Peabody
and Sherman and am most recently working on The Penguins of Madagascar.
- Responsible for face setups which includes building shapes and controls
  for a broad variety of characters, develop tools and script custom setup
  parts in python.


11/2006 - 06/2008

Framestore CFC

London

www.framestore-cfc.com

United Kingdom

Character Rigger

I worked on the animated feature The Tale of Despereaux.
- Building and maintaining the Animation-Rig pipeline for the show
- Development of a fast and easy-to-use Animation-Rig (Two Prototypes).
- Creation of a procedural rigging system with MEL that automates the rigging
  process and allows easy porting of the Animation-Rigs to all characters
- Creating Animation-Rigs for about 30 biped and 4 quadruped characters,
  that were animated by approx. 50 animators.


06/2006 - 11/2006

Chris Creatures Film Effects

Berlin

www.chriscreatures.com

Germany

Lead Character Rigger

I worked on the feature film Rudi: The Return of the Racing Pig
- Responsible for the creation of an animation-setup and the animation
interface for a photorealistic pig that is the hero character in the movie.


08/1999 - 05/2006

Jangled Nerves

Stuttgart

www.jangled-nerves.com

Germany

Freelancer, CG Artist

I worked on commercials and visualisations for clients like Daimler-Chrysler,
Lexus, Porsche, BMW, Audi, Caterpillar and Bertelsmann. I worked there
as a cg-generalist.



TEACHING:

01/2012 - present

Animschool

online school

www.animschool.com

Rigging Instructor

Working online with students around the world.
- Going over general rigging principles and more specific techniques in Maya.


11/2010 / 11/2011

The Animation Workshop

Viborg

www.animwork.dk

Denmark

Rigging Workshops

Worked with classes of 20-25 students over the course of 2.5 weeks.
- Going over general rigging principles and more specific techniques in Maya.
- Supervised the rigging process of 20-25 bipedal character setups.


10/2009 - 12/2009

TD-College

online school

www.td-college.com

Mentor for MEL-Scripting

Mentored students over the course of 3 months in MEL-Scripting,



EDUCATION:

10/2003 - 07/2006

Institute for Animation,

Ludwigsburg

Visual effects & Digital

Baden-Württemberg

Postproduction

Germany

www.animationsinstitut.de

Masters Degree in Computer Graphics

I worked independently as well as in groups on several short film projects,
where I did character rigging and lighting most of the time, but also animation
and modelling. I attended courses in computer graphics and screen writing.


10/2001 - 07/2003

Filmakademie

Ludwigsburg

Baden-Württemberg

Baden-Württemberg

www.filmakademie.de

Germany

Bachelor Degree in Film and Media

Foundation courses in film and media (scriptwriting, cinematography, editing,
directing and computer graphics). Worked in different positions on set.


09/1989 - 07/1998

Schelztor Gymnasium

Esslingen

Germany

High School or equivalent



CREDITS:

Mumbai Musical

(animated feature film)

Character TD

(2016)

Kung Fu Panda 3

(animated feature film)

Character TD

(2016)

The Penguins of Madagascar

(animated feature film)

Character TD Lead

(2015)

Mr Peabody and Sherman

(animated feature film)

Character TD

(2014)

Madagascar 3

(animated feature film)

Character TD

(2012)

Kung Fu Panda 2

(animated feature film)

Character TD

(2011)

Megamind

(animated feature film)

Character TD

(2010)

The Tale of Despereaux

(animated feature film)

Character Rigger

(2008)

Rudi - Return of

(animated feature film)

Lead

the Racing Pig

(2006)

Character Rigger



SHORT FILM CREDITS:

Agent Omicron

(animated short)

Character TD,

(2009)

Pipeline

House of Always

(animated short)

Character TD,

(2005)

Lighting TD, Director

Aal im Schaedel

(animated short)

Character TD

(2005)

How do hedgehogs

(animated short)

Lighting TD,

make love

(2004)

Compositor, Pipeline

Joshs Appartment

(animated short)

Character TD

(2003)

Lighting, Director

Dein Bild

(short film)

Writer, Director

(2002)

Editing



AWARDS:

Agent Omicron

(animated short)

CGChallenge

(Goro Fujita,

(2009)

CGSociety

Kory Heinzen,

Video Team

Nico Sanghrajka,

Master Award

Ryosuke Fujita)