Harold Raichur - Director Seamedu Animation & Arts
Harold Raichur is a Visualizer and Creative, with a knack for Storytelling.
His interests vary from Philosophy to History, Football to Animation, Books to Comics,
and Teaching to Trekking. He brings a practical & hands on approach to everything he does.
A self learnt, student of Animation, and Filmmaking in particular.
He loves to write & direct original content like Short Films, Game content, Short Stories,
Comics & and anything to do with the visual media.
Rohit Gupta, Founder - CEO (Rolocule Games) - Mentor-Game Design & Game Programming
Prior to Rolocule, Rohit was a part of "THE SIMS 3" engineering team at Electronic Arts (EA)
headquarters in Redwood City, California. He has also held positions at Infosys Technologies,
where he was also awarded Best Software Engineer award in 2006. He seems to be obsessed with computer games,
superman and tea, and intends to spend rest of his life entertaining people.
He is not evil but turns to Lex Luthor for good business tips. Rohit holds Master of Science (MS) in Computer Science
from Columbia University, New York and BE in Computer Engineering from Pune Institute of Computer Technology
(University of Pune). For more details visit: www.rolocule.com.
Akhlaque Shaikh - Technical Head-3d & Visual Effects
Aks(short for Akhlaque) -Bachelor in Computer Engineering wouldn't have come to be in this position
if he hadn't accompanied a friend, sadly for his friend who didn't join what Aks did-ANIAMATION!
Since then he has progressed from being the first motion builder trainer to studios,
to a maya expert and later a technical head. In-between all this he was able to co-found Id Animation & Arts.
At the present Aks is busy un ravelling the future course of SeamEdu nextgen training pipeline,
namely HOUDINI, Mo-Cap & Game Technology. He is largely self learnt and has a passion for animation and 8 years
to back it all. He has technical expertise over major 3D, 2D and Compositing programs & all things technical.
He has been involved in short filmmaking and commercials, as Technical Director. He maintains a blog,
likes photography & going to the Gym.
Abid Shaikh - Senior Faculty-3d General/Rigging
Abid started his career as a modelling artist, then he moved on to rigging & at the present
he is working his hand at animation. In the mean while in a short span of 5 years ,
of which 4 years he worked with TOON GEEKS SOFTWARE PVT. LTD ,making two direct to video 3d movies
(Chandarani ...A Dream to reality, Sonam ...Aur saath Ajube) in the capacity of Technical Lead & Project Manager.
Abid is a people's person and easy to get along, thus when he chose to take the plunge form the hustle
of a studio to the bustle of a School, he had all the needed expertise of a professional Animation artist
& the patience of a trainer. Presently Abid is Sr Faculty , guiding the students with the best practices
both technically & artistically to his Students. As Abid comes from the studio background,
he is able to call upon many of his animation experts in the industry to take on special sessions at SeamEdu.
Kunal Lanjekar - Senior Faculty (Visiting) --Design Fundamentals, 3d
He is multi-talented & very hard working individual with very strong leanings towards Graphics,
Tattoos, Animation Design and Teaching in no particular order. A GD Arts graduate,
he has completed his animation studies with a post graduate diploma from CDAC.
He is also pursuing a degree course in instructional design with Symbiosis College.
He is a freelance animation professional having working with Australian & Indian studios.
Currently he also teaches animation at Vishwakarma Creative I college,pune.
His ability to multitask & stretch his time not only allows him to seek and successfully
complete a his various projects but also fulfil his creativity by making short films & supervise Game projects.
At SeamEdu Kunal, teaches design, Advance Character Modelling & Texturing to the various animation streams.
Rohan Dalvi - Senior Faculty (Visiting) -3d Dynamics & Visual Effects
With over 12 years of experience in the animation business he has worked for various
Advt Agencies and Studios including, Phoebus Media, Indian Magic Eye,
Digital Art, etc. He was the 3d Visual Effects lead on "Dashavataar" the 2d animated film.
Earlier in his career Rohan has worked on Advertisements, architectural and industrial
visualization projects and continues to do so. Rohan is a software geek, with a voracious
appetite to delve into any 3d/2d software and then happily go about sharing his knowledge
with whoever will listen. Rohan loves to teach & has been into training/ teaching for 10 years.
He has & continues to teach at various animation Institutes & colleges .
He founded " Institute for Advanced Animation" , which he currently heads to impart advanced 3d ,Vfx &
animation to professional in a short duration. At Seamedu Rohan will teach the advanced level
courses for 3d animation mainly, Lighting,Rendering, Visual Effects and Compositing.
Kunal Shrigondekar - Visiting Faculty-- Cinematography, Studio Lighting
In his words Wants to explore the deep ocean of Television Media & become a Professional success
in the T.V & Media industry.His goal is to become a good Camera artist & Cinematographer.
He is a team player in my team and looks out for challenge and exitement.
His has a deep interest in the Camera has resulted in the pursuit of Photography,
Videography & filmmaking, as a student and now as a professional. Kunal is credited for his work
on Documentaries, short films, Promotional & Advertisements, Music Videos,
TV Serials & Reality Shows for Television. At SeamEdu it his expertise with the camera
ensures that the Animation & Vfx students have the benefit of understanding and using professional
camera systems in both the studio and on the sets with a dedicated professional.
Shantanu Kulkarni - UI Designer (IISc Bangalore)--Mentor-Game Design
Shantanu is an industrial designer from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
Having an engineering background he was always keen to do product design but he is more inclined towards product development.
He has gained a lot of experience in the organizations like Larsen & Toubro & TATA Motors, working on defence products to automobiles.
Recently he is a part of user experience design teams of leading IT organizations.
Because of the industrial design background & user experience design exposure, Shantanu brings in user centric approach
in every design phase. He gives a guidance from a product development perspective to give an end to end solution.
His areas of interest are Learning & entertainment. He has recently published a research paper in "Conference for Advances
in Usability Engineering" (CAUE, 2008) on learn-ability testing of e-learning applications. His recent study includes application
of cognitive theories in the Game Development/ entertainment industry.
Shantanu, brings his expertise in product design, ergonomics, aesthetics along with his User Interface (UI) skills to help the game design students,
make good games.
Mr Bharat Sachdev - (Toolbox Studios, Mumbai)
10 years Visual Effects Vfx Compositing artist ,Studied at Centennial College Canada & having worked with Tata Elxsi & DreamWorks Bangalore