Ali Jafri

Marshal resources for production and create maximum value for company stakeholders. Develop and cascade the organization strategy to staff members and implement appropriate compensation and corrective practices to align personnel with company goals. Plan and prioritize client, employee and organizational requirements. Maintain and monitor staffing, levels, knowledge-skill attributes. Drive performance measure for measurement of operation's performance and evaluate efficiency versus effectiveness

Was involved in developing and supervising character rigs, facial systems, hair/fur and character fx for production. Conducting research and developement for mocap and animation pipeline. Responsible for quality control and standardization of modeling, texturing, animation, hair, cloth issues during production. Enforcing production pipeline standards for characters and keeping track of assets. Training junior technical artists and members associated with different departments in accordance to needs of overa

Design, animate and supervise motion graphics for channel packaging, idents and on-air promotions. Lead a team of designers and animators for meeting project objectives related to on-air channel promotions. Supervise and enforce broadcast standards for material delivered from brand creative. Advise and manage on work scheduling, budgets, efficient resource management. Conduct assessments, interviews and hire competent team members required for brand creative.

Worked on projects relating to body, facial animation and post production. Did research and development for production pipeline. Customizing Maya to allow enhanced workflow and productivity. Researched on rigging paradigms and implemented as well as troubleshoot customized rigs for animation production. Animated mostly for commercials and animated shorts.

Worked on multimedia and web related projects. Main job function involved work on design, character animation and digital painting.

Modeled Environments, Props and Objects. Did animations for commercials and documentaries. Also worked on motion graphics and design for print and broadcast media.