Experience
Beforethis studio.
Programmes contributed to in-house at vehicle manufacturers. Every credit names the role performed and the studio that produced it.
These are personal credits, not VDVS projects. Each programme was produced in-house at the manufacturer named against it and is owned by them. Shown here as a record of work contributed to, in the role named against each, before this studio started.
Selected credits
Twelve programmes, five studios
Ceer
EXOBOT — the production sedan and SUV
Both vehicles lit inside and out in-house, with the environments built alongside them. The design team reviewed in VR while the models were still moving and the board saw them in films cut for each review, so the data had to be current every time either happened. The launch film itself was rendered by an external team; the contribution there was preparing and updating the production data so what they rendered matched the real thing, detail for detail.
- Role
- Exterior and interior lighting, environment builds, VR design reviews, internal board films, and production data
- Produced at
- Ceer Motors
Ola Electric
S1 scooter range, and a first VR programme for two-wheelers
Two-wheeler VR had no established pipeline to follow, so it was worked out in-house. Each machine was given a built set rather than a studio turntable.
- Role
- Storyboarding, environment modelling, lookdev and lighting
- Produced at
- Ola Electric
Ola Electric
Diamondhead and Roadster concepts
Two concepts revealed in opposite registers: one on salt flats at dusk, the other on a turntable in a darkened hall.
- Role
- Storyboarding, environment modelling, lookdev and lighting
- Produced at
- Ola Electric
Ola Electric
Sedan concept film
One continuous sunset run across a cable-stayed bridge, held in a single light state from first frame to last.
- Role
- Storyboarding, environment modelling, lookdev and lighting
- Produced at
- Ola Electric
GWM TANK
Hybrid concept and Auto Shanghai configurator
A hybrid concept with induction charging, and the vehicle behind an interactive configurator built for Auto Shanghai. Rendered in Unreal Engine with raytracing, authored at 3:1 for the multi-screen show stage.
- Role
- Storyboarding, environment modelling, lookdev and lighting
- Produced at
- GWM
GWM ORA
R1 — first electric vehicle, and its configurator
GWM's first electric vehicle and the second GWM programme to carry an interactive configurator. Every material on the car was authored for this work.
- Role
- All vehicle materials, compositing across all shots
- Produced at
- GWM
GWM HAVAL
Vision 2025 concept, Auto Shanghai
A full-CG concept film built for the multi-screen autoshow stage at 3.3:1, set at night so the car is read through moving light.
- Role
- Storyboarding, environment modelling, lookdev and lighting
- Produced at
- GWM
GWM HAVAL
Vintage to Future
A vintage silhouette carried forward into a modern electric vehicle, opening in darkness and ending in daylight.
- Role
- Storyboarding, animation and final output
- Produced at
- GWM
GWM WEY
ADAS and powertrain films, four production vehicles
Driver-assistance and powertrain explainers across four vehicles. The environment has to carry information — a 60% ramp, a snow surface, the lane the car is moving into — while still reading as the real world.
- Role
- Storyboarding, environment modelling, lookdev and lighting
- Produced at
- GWM
Jaguar
XE product film
Architectural exteriors, road and tunnel sequences, a complete interior suite and studio beauty. Rendered in Chaos V-Ray inside Autodesk Maya.
- Role
- Storyboarding, environment modelling, lookdev and lighting
- Produced at
- Jaguar Land Rover
Jaguar
Project 8 — Saloon to Supercar
A launch film taking the XE saloon apart and rebuilding it as the SV Project 8, with several sequences driven procedurally through MASH.
- Role
- Storyboarding, environment modelling, lookdev and lighting
- Produced at
- Jaguar Land Rover
Tata Motors
Prima — the product launch film, in stereoscopic 3D
The launch film for the Prima prime mover range, full CG throughout — chassis and powertrain, cabin, instrumentation and the variant line-up. Authored stereoscopic for 3D screening, so every asset had to hold up at two eye positions rather than one.
- Role
- Background modelling, texturing and shading
- Produced at
- Tata Elxsi
Work above produced in-house at Ceer Motors, Ola Electric, GWM, Jaguar Land Rover, Tata Elxsi.
Earlier credits
Feature animation
Three features — two produced at Tata Elxsi, one at Prana Studios — for the studios named, and we are credited on screen on all three. The reel collects the shots we worked on, taken from the films after release. They remain the property of Disney and Yash Raj Films.
Disney
Tinker Bell
- Suresh Kasinikotta
- Set modelling and texturing across most scenes
- Kiran Kumar
- Key lighting across most shots
Maya · RenderMan
Produced in-house at Prana Studios and owned by Disney.
Disney
Arjun: The Warrior Prince
- Golden Elephant Trophy, Best Animation Feature (Children's Jury) — 18th International Children's Film Festival India
- FICCI BAF Award — Best Animated Feature Film
- The first Indian animated film longlisted for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature
- Suresh Kasinikotta
- Set and prop modelling and texturing, and character shading using RenderMan RIB archives
- Sarath Chandra Vitala
- Lighting and compositing
- Sanjith Reddy Chada
- Animation and layout
Maya · RenderMan
Produced in-house at Tata Elxsi and owned by Disney.
Yash Raj Films
Roadside Romeo
- Golden Lotus (Swarna Kamal) for Best Animation Film — 56th National Film Awards, the highest film honour in India
- Special Jury, Best Animation Film — 20th Cairo International Film Festival for Children
- Best Animation Film — Screen Awards
- Best Animated Feature Film — FICCI BAF Awards
- Golden Cursor Animation Awards — won in five categories
- Best Animation Film — 24FPS Animation Awards
- Suresh Kasinikotta
- Fur shading in RenderMan, and set modelling and texturing
- Sarath Chandra Vitala
- Lighting across most shots
- Sanjith Reddy Chada
- Character animation and layout
Maya · RenderMan
Produced in-house at Tata Elxsi and owned by Yash Raj Films.
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