Mr. Arunkumar Boyidapu is a lighting and composting artist at Sparky Animation. Boasting of Jedi Masters Certification in Texturing awarded by Lucas Film Animation Ltd. in Singapore, he has over 4 years of experience in architectural walkthroughs, TVCs and animation feature films. He has also performed his role to excellence as a texturing artist at Visual Computing Labs and Rayudu Vision Media Ltd. He has also picked up valuable 3D animation and VFX skills at the Maya Academy of Advanced Cinematics.

CG Today : Mr. Arunkumar, a very heartful welcome to you and thank you for obliging to our request and agreeing to talk about your insights and experience in the animation industry.

Arun : Thank you. In fact I’m thankful for this wonderful opportunity.

CG Today : Let’s start with your current job. Sparky Animation has some excellent projects coming up like Dinosaur Train and Fleebag, Monkeyface. As a lighting and composting artist what are the projects you are working on? Are you excited about the upcoming phase in your career?

Arun : Sparky Animation is wonderful studio with a lot of exciting projects that are lined up. And I’m eagerly looking forward to working on those projects, but unfortunately I can’t share much detail about the projects now.

Kalyan Gali is the Creative Head at Icronex Technologies that specializes in providing complete internet solutions. An extremely well read individual Kalyan completed his graduation from JNTU followed by PGDAG in Game Design & 3D Animation from Image College of Art, Animation and Technology. He then went on to do his post graduation in business management from the reputed XLRI Jamshedpur. Kalyan had earlier worked in the capacity of specialist game designer at HCL technologies.

CG Today : Mr. Kalyan, please accept our warm welcome and thank you for taking time out to share your insights and thoughts with CG Today.

Kalyan : You're welcome. In fact, it is a pleasure for me to address an audience whom I belong to.

CG Today : Mr. Kalyan, you are currently the creative head at a company that specialized in internet marketing and providing complete strategic solutions to its clients, as a web strategy consultant. How is the experience of working with a team of visual designers, even while trying to get the UI and usability right?

Kalyan : When you begin to understand the strengths and weakness of your team, from there on every task is handled just like a cakewalk. The balanced communication with the team about what you want, how you want it and why you want it plays the key role in making the project successful. One important thing that I personally practice in my team is involving them as active participants in every phase of the project. Plus, we have the regular brain storming sessions on the project work phase and flow, every idea is considered and we do regular research for usability of the running project.

Moreover it’s a team work that makes the story a success!