More than 18 years of experience in the creative industry, I have led teams and been a part of them. Being a self-taught artist I like to be a motivator to my colleagues, always pushing myself and others to accomplish personal and professional goals.
I currently work as Art Director at Moon Active working remotely full-time from my hometown in India. I am responsible for realising the product needs on all the visual aspects of the new game title in development. I lead a fantastic team of concept artists, game artists, animators and UI designers, as together we create art assets for the various features of our game.
Before Moon Active, I worked as Studio Art Director at Rovio in Helsinki, Finland, where I was responsible for defining the look of our games, giving Art Direction to the team, recruiting Artists, building teams, and developing and growing talent.
Further before Rovio, I worked as Principal Visual Development Artist at King in Barcelona. My major responsibility included uplifting the characters of existing projects and creating new ones.
I worked on the new Candy Crush Friends, which I am super proud of. I was responsible for elevating, designing characters and make them ready for 3D. I created model packets and reviewed works by other character designers and 3D artists on the project. Check it out on the App Store.
Before King, I art directed a team of around 15 artists for games ’Titan Empires’ and “DragonSoul’. For Titan Empires, I did the entire Art Direction, including hands-on character design, buildings and environment design and 3D production reviews. For Dragonsoul, along with art direction, I created character styling and designed a number of characters.
Here are some more highlights of my professional career up until now:
I worked for games by Zynga, Glu Mobiles, Booyah, PerBlue, and many others.
I was a part of Masters of Anatomy’s second book on Character Designs, featuring work done by industry’s top 130 character designers.
I delivered talks at NASSCOM GDC India on ‘Game Art Bible - Secret Sauce to making great Game Art’ in the year 2013, and on Character Development for Video Games’ in the year 2012.
I was featured in the Concept Artist magazine special issue by the ImagineFX team.
Trojan Horse was a Unicorn’s THU TV made a documentary I was a part of, along with very talented people from industry’s leading studios. Check it out here, its called ‘The evolution of Mobile Gaming’
I am super proud to be part of the series ‘Meet the Rovians’. If you are want to know what my day looks like, and hear my story, check this video.
I am the organizer of SketchBomb Helsinki, a sketching group where artists from the city meet for networking, to draw together and have fun. Previously I used to organize SketchBomb Barcelona and SketchBomb New Delhi when I lived there. I feel at home when I am surrounded with amazingly talented people at these meetups and it will always be a part of my life, wherever I am.
Drop me a hello or connect with me on social media using the tiny links below!