AT A GLANCE
Siddharth Mandavgane
Area of Practice:
Animation, Visual Effects, motion-graphics, photography, design research, research by practice, cycling, Yoga, financial and investment management
OVERVIEW
Siddharth is an animation and visual effects artist with industry experience of more than 12 years. Before doing his masters in visual effects from Bournemouth University, UK, he worked with studios such as Crest Animation Studios, Pixion, Tata Elxsi – Visual computing Labs as a 3D artist / generalist. While in the UK, he worked as 3D artist for gaming and later as Render TD with Framestore – the Oscar wining visual effects studio in London. Across his career Siddharth have worked on popular TV animated shows like Arthur’s Missing Pal, Piggley Winks, Casper; animation and VFX movies like Arjun – the warrior prince, Maha Yoddha Rama, Robocop, Jupiter Ascending, Guardians of the Galaxy, Edge of Tomorrow, Paddington Bear and many TV commercials.
At SMI, Siddharth headed the BVoc program in the capacity of Associate Dean and currently head the Digital Media Production course as Head of Studies. Siddharth is also a Doctoral scholar at SMI with particular interest in pedagogy, new technologies in animation and VFX.
EDUCATION
- Master of Arts, Visual Effects, Bournemouth University, UK
- Master of Arts, Design in Education, SMI, MAHE, Bangaluru
- PhD – Pursuing
WORK EXPERIENCE
- June 2014 – till date | Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore, India.
Associate Dean, Bachelor of Vocation program (2019 – 2023)
Course leader, Digital Media Production (Animation, VFX and Game Design) (2016 – present) - Nov. 2013 – March 2014 | Framestore, London, UK.
Render Wrangler
Projects: Gravity, Robocop, Jupiter Ascending, Guardians of the Galaxy, Edge of Tomorrow, Paddington, etc. - March 2012 – Dec. 2014 | Shangri-la games, UK.
Freelance 3d Artist
Projects: PC based zombie game ‘Global Infection’ - June 2009 – June 2010 | Tata Elxsi Ltd. (Visual Computing Labs), Mumbai, India
Render TD
Projects:
Arjun: The warrior prince, an animated feature film, a UTV motion pictures prod.
Winx, stereoscopic animation DVD project for Rainbow S.r.l., Italy.
Tata Prima, stereoscopic VFX commercial for Tata truck.
Alpenliebe, VFX commercial for Perfetti van Melle, India division. - Nov. 2007 – Jun. 2009 | Pixion, Mumbai, India
Environment modeling and texturing artist
Projects: Maha Yoddha Rama, an animated feature film based on Indian mythological tales and legends of Lord Rama. (Won National award for Animated Feature film for 2017) - Oct. 2005 – Sep. 2007 | Crest Animation Studios, Mumbai, India.
Render TD
Projects:
Bratz, a 52-episode animated TV series for Mike Young Productions, USA
Arthur’s Missing Pal, animation DVD project for Lions Gate Productions, USA
Piggley Winks (Jakers in Europe), animated TV series for Mike Young Productions, USA.
Casper: an animated remake of Casper movie (1995), a DVD project for Lions Gate prod., Inc., USA
Word World, a 52-episode animated TV series for Niclodeon, USA
INTEREST AREAS
- Interests – Animation, Visual Effects, Photography, etc
- Research areas – Pedagogy of animation and visual effects in design education, integration of new technologies in curriculum development, industry-academia relation and its collaborative effect on education.
CURRENT PRACTICE AT SRISHTI
Curriculum design and development for animation and VFX, leadership role under BVoc to continually enhance and enrich the students learning experience, Research Scholar.
TEACHING PORTFOLIO
Siddharth facilitates various kinds of courses and units ranging from VFX compositing, motion graphics, moving image theories, stop-motion animation, foundation courses, etc. He also mentors many final year project students under BFA, BDes and BVoc.
CREATIVE PRACTICE & OUTREACH
Animation and Visual Effects
