Ace VFX director Arvind Rajkumar, better known as Ara has moved from Famous to USL-WOA.
The former creative director at Famous Cine FX put in his papers end of May and has joined USL as Technical Director for VFX & DI from the first of this month.
Speaking to Animation ‘xpress, Ara commented, “I am basically a VFX director and that is my core competence. I am joining USL-WOA as Technical director for VFX & DI and look forward to strengthen our presence in the film making process in terms of previsualisation, VFX and Digital post production for full feature films.”
UTV VP for Post & Dubbing Indranil Ghosh commented, “We at USL are focusing on high end VFX for films and in our endeavour towards building competencies and skillsets – we have identified some of the best talent in the industry who are now part of our team. Arvind’s (ARA’s) movement to USL-WOA is a boost to our efforts to establish our credentials in the VFX space and also to enhance our competencies in the VFX area”
Ara who has been in the VFX field since a good ten years now, had his own studio which he ran for 8 years prior to joining Famous. Amongst the many animated TVCs that he supervised and created at Famous were a couple of 3D animated films for Actimint and the 3D commercial for Hot Wheels.