Tuhin Paul +91-9709081237

Visual Communication Designer tuhin.paul@gmail.com

Objective Key Skills

To obtain a challenging position in the field of visual • 2D and 3D animation
communication design that would allow me to use prior
• Information Design
knowledge and skills, in a creative/innovative manner to
prove myself an asset. • User Experience Design
• System Analysis
Education • System Thinking
2009 Post Graduate Diploma - New Media Design • Contextual Enquiry
• Ethnographic Research
National Institute of Design, Gandhinagar
• Qualitative and Quantitative research
2007 B. Tech - Information and Communication
• Affinity Diagram
Technology
• Conceptual Framework
Dhirubhai Ambani Institute, Gandhinagar • Scripting in Flash (AS 2.0)
2002 Higher Secondary (10+2), CBSE • Scripting in Maya (MEL)
Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics • Storyboarding
Lions Public School, Sindri, Jharkhand • Illustration
• Programming in C and C++
Experience
Areas of Interest
Jan 2009 - Jan 2010 Animation Director
AKHRA, Ranchi • Animation and Visual Communication
• Storytelling & Narrative
• Photography
May 2008 - July 2008 Research Intern
UTV Toons, Mumbai Software
• Maya (Character Animation, modeling
June 2005 - Aug 2005 Research Intern MEL Scripting, Toon Shader)
TATA Interactive Systems, • Flash (Animation, Action Scripting)
Mumbai • Photoshop
• After Effects
• Premier Pro
• InDesign
• Platform: Windows XP
Portfolio
http://www.scribd.com/doc/22667120/Tuhin-Paul-s-Design-Portfolio

Animation Showreel
http://www.vimeo.com/8219545

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Key Projects
1. Animated folktales of tribal of Jharkhand. The project involved blending animated folktales
with live action footage to create a documentary film on religious belief system of the Aboriginals
of Jharkhand. All the animation in the project was handled by me. The folktales were visualized
after an extensive ethnographic research conducted on tribal religious belief system.
Duration: January 2009 to January 2010 (12 months)

2. An interactive animation show to depict how face of Earth has changed with growth of human
population on it. The system consisted of a combination of hardware and software that provided
interactively without the user’s acquaintance to computers.
Duration: December 2007 (1 week)

3. An audio visual comic in digital form that mixes audio with visuals in a sequential manner to
create a new narrative experience. The system keeps a tag of the frame that the reader is reading
and plays the audio corresponding to that frame.
Duration: September 2008 (3 weeks)

4. A MEL script that helps in making modification to an existing polygon model by allowing
modification at any point of its construction history. It can be used to efficiently create a number
of characters from an existing character even though each character has a different feature.
Duration: April 2007 (1 month)

5. A MEL script that helps in generating outlines at any desirable region on a 3D polygon model. The
outlines are generated through Mental Ray Contour feature in Maya.
Duration: May - July 2008 (2 months)

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