Tuhin Paul's Resume

Tuhin Paul

+91-9709081237 [email protected]

Visual Communication Designer

Objective

Key Skills

To obtain a challenging position in the field of visual communication design that would allow me to use prior knowledge and skills, in a creative/innovative manner to prove myself an asset.

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Education 2009 Post Graduate Diploma - New Media Design

National Institute of Design, Gandhinagar

2007 B. Tech - Information and Communication

Technology



Dhirubhai Ambani Institute, Gandhinagar

2002 Higher Secondary (10+2), CBSE

Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics



Lions Public School, Sindri, Jharkhand

Experience Jan 2009 - Jan 2010

Animation Director



AKHRA, Ranchi

May 2008 - July 2008

Research Intern



UTV Toons, Mumbai

June 2005 - Aug 2005

Research Intern



TATA Interactive Systems,



Mumbai

Portfolio

2D and 3D animation Information Design User Experience Design System Analysis System Thinking Contextual Enquiry Ethnographic Research Qualitative and Quantitative research Affinity Diagram Conceptual Framework Scripting in Flash (AS 2.0) Scripting in Maya (MEL) Storyboarding Illustration Programming in C and C++

Areas of Interest • Animation and Visual Communication • Storytelling & Narrative • Photography

Software • Maya (Character Animation, modeling MEL Scripting, Toon Shader) • Flash (Animation, Action Scripting) • Photoshop • After Effects • Premier Pro • InDesign • Platform: Windows XP

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Key Projects 1.

Animated folktales of tribal of Jharkhand. The project involved blending animated folktales with live action footage to create a documentary film on religious belief system of the Aboriginals of Jharkhand. All the animation in the project was handled by me. The folktales were visualized after an extensive ethnographic research conducted on tribal religious belief system. Duration: January 2009 to January 2010 (12 months)

2.

An interactive animation show to depict how face of Earth has changed with growth of human population on it. The system consisted of a combination of hardware and software that provided interactively without the user’s acquaintance to computers. Duration: December 2007 (1 week)

3.

An audio visual comic in digital form that mixes audio with visuals in a sequential manner to create a new narrative experience. The system keeps a tag of the frame that the reader is reading and plays the audio corresponding to that frame. Duration: September 2008 (3 weeks)

4.

A MEL script that helps in making modification to an existing polygon model by allowing modification at any point of its construction history. It can be used to efficiently create a number of characters from an existing character even though each character has a different feature. Duration: April 2007 (1 month)

5.

A MEL script that helps in generating outlines at any desirable region on a 3D polygon model. The outlines are generated through Mental Ray Contour feature in Maya. Duration: May - July 2008 (2 months)

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