SARAN KUMAR
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SARAN KUMAR

Production Manager/ VFX ProducerIndia
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SARAN KUMAR
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SARAN KUMAR

Production Manager/ VFX ProducerIndia
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Production Management Professional with 10+ years of demonstrated success in noted projects and pioneered productions within various areas of the media industry. PROFILE SNAPSHOT ➢ Experienced in strategically managing various animation (short & long form), visual effects television, and feature projects simultaneously, plus preparation of schedules and monitoring of work. ➢ Adept at planning and execution, effectively managing all phases of the production including concept development, production, post-production, and adaptation to other platforms. ➢ Assisted in the breakdown of VFX work and managing teams. ➢ Thorough understanding of live-action and CG-based VFX workflows. ➢ Produced, managed budgets and schedules that consider the End-to-End work, ensuring that the project is completed to the highest standard achievable, on time & within budget. ➢ During production, served as principal client/cross-site contact for creative and non- creative issues, tracking and reporting the progress of work, budgeting, and delivering cost/schedule changes to ensure the client/cross-site is updated as needed. ➢ In-depth knowledge of MS Office Suite, ShotGrid, G Suite and operational understanding of the softwares like Unreal Engine, Maya, Zbrush, RealityCapture, Nuke, Houdini, Mari, Adobe Suite, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro, Avid, Substance Painter, Cinesync, and other File transfer platforms along with working Linux and Mac OS knowledge. ➢ Constantly deliver clientele results with exceptional troubleshooting skills, first-class interpersonal communication, and time management skills. ➢ Increased ability to remain calm and confident in a fast-paced environment. ➢ Engaged in the performance management process such as performance feedback, monthly productivity stats (lead bid vs time log), and mentoring for direct reports (10-12 people). ➢ Conducted post-mortems for the projects and recommend advancements for the continuous improvement of project and artist execution practices. GLOBAL EXPOSURE ➢ Collaborated with some of the top brands like Netflix, Disney+, Apple TV+, HBO MAX, Amazon Prime, Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks, Nickelodeon, Brown Bag Films – 9Story, Epic Games, Turner Europe, and many more studios from countries like the USA, UK, Canada, Australia, Singapore, France, and India. ➢ Served as an Overseas CG Producer - experienced in supervising large crews and communicating with multiple studio locations remotely. ➢ Produced Unreal Engine Short Film (Title Winner) along with Epic Games.
Projects credited in
  • MPC Film showreel
    MPC Film showreelI produced MPC's latest showreel, which features VFX work from movies including The Jungle Book, Pirates of the Caribbean, Alien: Covenant, The Martian and more
Work history
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    Studio ProducerFreelance Consultant
    Dubai, United Arab EmiratesFreelance
    Key Responsibilities: ➢ Assist as a subject matter expert, propose and pitch studio development ideas to Clients. ➢ Build pipeline, rate cards, and other studio guideline documentation to set up workflows with best practices for virtual as well as physical-based VFX, Animation, and other mixed media/ experimental studios. ➢ Troubleshoot production and creative variances and advise new processes and strategies to improve business operations
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    Production Manager/ VFX ProducerMR.X
     - IndiaFull Time
    Achievements: ➢ Built a strong relationship with the internal and cross-site (culturally diverse) team in a short period of time. ➢ Streamlined, documented, and assisted in improving the workflow by implementing best practices between both internal and cross-site VFX production for better communication and Show productivity. ➢ Built a skill-matrix document based on artists' core competency and soft skills that helped the unit to map the resources; based on the Show-complexity. ➢ Assisting in building a VFX Compositing Department of 200+ artists. ➢ Credited as the VFX Producer in the Unreal Engine Shorts. Contributions: ➢ Supervising the leads and Production teams to oversee day-to-day production needs. ➢ Managing bidding sessions, scrum, dailies, and project meetings. ➢ Schedule milestones, organize and delegate the assignment of tasks for the project team. ➢ Maintaining Shotgun pages in order to provide information to the artists, cross-site producers, and organize workloads. ➢ Looking after the interests of the project and team. ➢ Communicating project expectations to other production managers, project key team members, upper management, and other stakeholders in a clear and concise fashion. ➢ Ensuring project outputs are consistently high-quality deliverables, on time and within budget to all business objectives. ➢ Identifying and mitigating risks across projects for the organization. ➢ Maintaining records as required by the stage-gate development process, Bids vs. Actuals, and sending weekly reports to Producers/HOP/Executive Producers. ➢ Ensure all internal resources got effectively allocated and tasked to keep all projects on schedule. And work with or support other business units’ shows (Example: MPC Film & MPC Advertisement) to maximize business efficiency and resource utilization. ➢ Evaluating estimated final cost by working with Central production Manager and VFX Producers to provide management with early, consistent, and accurate EFC reporting.
Education
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    Diploma in Design and MediaNanyang Academy of Fine Arts
     - Singapore
    In the course of 3 years of my study, I learned about the fundamentals of design, focusing on visual literacy, communication, problem-solving skills, and ideas generation. I also gained the confidence to visually narrate these ideas through various media like Animation & Video production.