SONIA D’COSTA
Mobile: +91 9820808124
Phone: +91 9819626040
Email: [email protected]
Prabhu Kunj, Bungalow No.80,
Sector 7, Charkop, Kandivali (West),
Mumbai - 400 067
CAREER OBJECTIVE
Working to the best of my ability and quality in management, to create an excellent profile for the
Company that I am employed with and to stay with the company and help it grow.
EXPERIENCE SUMMARY
8 years of experience in the Visual Effects industry.
Promoted to as Production Manager on Hollywood Production for the Matchmove (Tracking)
Department.
Previously worked as Digital Production Coordinator for the BgPrep (Roto and Prep) and
Sequence (Compositing and Lighting) Department.
Was employed at Rhythm and Hues Studios (Mumbai) for 5 years.
CAREER HISTORY
Rhythm and Hues Studios. 13th May 2009 – 13th May 2014 (5 years)
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Production Manager: Matchmove Department.
February 2013 – May 2014 (1 year, 3 month)
Managed a team of 20 artists in the Mumbai Matchmove Department along with helping
respective managers in other locations such as Hyderabad (25 artists) and Taiwan (10 artists).
Worked closely and facilitated smooth communication with R&H’s different locations (Mumbai,
Hyderabad, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Kuala Lumpur and Taiwan) and their respective
departments along with their managers and coordinators.
Resource planning of artists during production and idle time planning by arranging techops.
Approving of Timesheets or Time card and holiday requests.
Overview of ongoing productions.
Ensuring online production reviews are updated by Artists, Supervisor and Support team once the
show is delivered.
Training coordinators/Mentoring coordinators.
Managing people’s aspirations and keeping track of their growth plan.
Serving day to day artists queries and issues (try to help in resolving conflicts).
New Hire/End Hire Formalities. Attending orientation session for new joinees.
Providing different opportunities for Individuals and the Team: Cross training to other
departments.
Projects worked on as Production Manager for the Matchmove Department:
Hercules: The Legend Begins
Tammy
Winter’s Tale
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Digital Production Coordinator : BgPrep and Sequence Department.
May 2009 – January 2013 (3 years, 9 months)
Sequence Department (Lighting & Compositing). 14th January 2011 – 31st January 2013 (2
years ) and
Background Preparation Department. 13th May 2009 – 13th January 2011 (1 year 9 months)
Gather information about the upcoming project.
Make sure the required elements are available once a movie is awarded. Follow up has to be
done with the respective Manager, Supervisor, leads and technology, Pipeline department.
Coordinated with Leads and coordinators (Sequence and BgPrep) from other location to create
detailed schedules with short term, midterm and long term deadlines in terms of assignments
and planning or sending out reports especially when a show is split between locations.
Check the status of the shots every day and comments received by the Supervisor would be
filtered to the team and respective artists working on the shots.
Keep the leads informed of any changes in the schedule of client/sup reviews, so that they can
plan their work accordingly.
By using R&H propriety software to keep an overall track of when artist is getting done with the
current shot and assignment of shots.
Informing artists of pending elements to be received from other departments.
Coordinating with other departments (Modeling, texturing, tracking, anim) and their coordinators.
Noting and discussing issues or queries or concerns and addressing them by conducting meetings
with the leads, supervisors, technology (system, pipeline and operations department),
department manager on a regular basis or send out mails that need clarity.
Making sure the artists and my department functions smoothly.
Ensure the shots are delivered on time with high quality.
Keeping a tab of number of idle artists daily. Also anticipating in advance putting forth to the
sup/manager to ask for further work.
Help the managers to convey details and other information to the team and also provide them
information about artists.
Help technology with render projections and test out remote rendering with pipeline involvement.
Pass on commands and protocols to be followed to the artists for remote rendering.
Noting down the work priorities and render priorities for the day.
Help the leads in passing down the render priorities to the lighters and work/shot priorities for
the day to the compositors.
Select and collect elements for shots that would be required for preparing shot breakdowns after
the show is delivered.
Updating reports of artist’s skillsets.
Helping with recruitment for the department.
Dinner or lunch arrangements during peak production time.
Documenting shots for training purpose.
Maintain production and show specific WebPages/Gantts/Tasktracks/Approval of holidays on our
Intranet with details of current work status.
Informing Technology, Admin and HR when artists are called to work on weekends, so that
necessary arrangements are done for smooth flow of work.
Identify resource conflicts and follow through on the issues until resolution.
Projects worked on as a Sequence Coordinator for Lighting and Compositing Department:
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
Life of Pi
Big Miracle
Red Riding Hood
Moneyball
Little Fockers
Projects worked on as a Production Coordinator for Background Preparation Department:
Alvin and the Chipmunks 3 Chipwrecked
Mr. Popper's Penguins
X-Men: First Class
Knight and Day
Moneyball
Yogi Bear
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
Hot Tub Time Machine
Marmaduke
The A-Team
Charlie St. Cloud
The Wolfman
The Cabin in the Woods
Alvin and the Chipmunks 2 The Squeakquel
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Additional Responsibilities in Rhythm & Hues.
Guest management:
Help out as interim manager for guests travelling.
Recruitment:
Working closely working with Recruitment team in projecting the department’s requirement.
Conducting telephonic interviews, checking show-reels, planning for their tests, personal
interview.
Organizing in house and outdoor presentations such as Outreach activities to increase awareness
about the various job profiles and skill sets required.
Volunteerism:
I am an active part of the management team helping out at the annual International Animation
Day (Asifa India IAD) and the monthly CG Meet up events held in Mumbai.
Silver line Animation Technologies Ltd. July 2008 - April 2009 (10 Months)
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Production Coordinator
Pre- Production Department
Providing notes to the lead that was given by the client.
Seeing to shots and artwork are delivered on time.
Keeping a track of the progress of the work through Microsoft Excel.
Help with conducting dailies and meetings when needed.
Helping and checking if work is download and upload correctly.
Pixion Studios. (Khar). April 2008 – June 2008 (3 months)
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Production Coordinator
VFX Department
Making sure work functions smoothly and communication is clear among artists.
Help in conducting meetings when necessary.
Checking if shots are imported and exported properly by artists.
Worked With Director Simi Nallaseth-Epiphany Films & UTV Motion Pictures
(Worli). January 2006 – January 2008 (2 years)
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Production Coordinator.
August 2006 – Jan 2008 (1 year 6 months)
Worked on animatics using Photoshop, Sound forge, Premiere. Scripting in Final Draft.
Assisted in the preparing the budget and production pipeline of the film and also in preparing the
Bible and Synopsis.
Conducting HR session while the Team was growing.
Coordinated between artists for the smooth flow of work.
Helped with combination and preparation of artwork to present for the movie to greenlite.
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Animatics Editor.
Jan 2006 – July 2006 (6 months)
Worked in lining and voice over for the animatics using Photoshop, Premiere Pro and Sound
forge.
Coloring the images in Photoshop and in preparing the Bible for storyboard presentation.
Arora Fashion Ltd (Sewri). March 2005 – August 2005 (6 months)
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Computer Aided Designer
Designed motifs & designs for t-shirts, nightgowns & Kids clothes, clients were from Germany &
London.
Extra-Curricular Activities
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Tutoring children in the 1st standard to the 5th standard.
Church activities: Visiting Old Aged Home and Asha daan. Spending time with children and
conducting activities by playing games.
Teaching children in an NGO in Byculla.
EDUCATION
Degree
Animation Diploma Course
Institution
Arena Multimedia –
Mumbai(Fort)
Board
Year
2004-2006
Third Year Bachelor of Arts
St. Xavier’s College
Mumbai University
2003-2004
Higher Secondary Certificate
St. Xavier’s College
Maharashtra Board
2000-2001
Secondary School Certificate
St. Agnes’ High School
Maharashtra Board
1998-1999
Early Childhood Education
Teacher Training Certificate
(along with practicals)
TreeHouse
Mumbai
2014
COMPUTER SKILLS
Software
Drawing/Illustrating
Image Editing
Page Layouts
Audio/Video editing
Web Designing
Animation
Sfx
Adobe Illustrator CS
Adobe Photoshop CS
Pagemaker 7, Corel Draw 11 & Quark Express 6
Sound Forge 7 & Adobe Premiere 6
HTML, Java Script, Dreamweaver MX 2004, Flash MX Professional 2004
3D Max, Maya 6.0
Adobe After Effects, Elastic Reality.
PERSONAL DETAILS
Place of Birth
Mangalore
Date of Birth
11th January 1984
Marital Status
Married
Nationality
Indian
Languages Known
English, Hindi, Marathi and Konkani
(Sonia D’Costa)