Anu Nagaraj

VFX Post-Producer with Significant Other


Coca-cola´s “Christmas Always Finds Its Way” series of short films exclusively for Amazon Prime. “Alma” directed by Vellas and “Christmas Bites” directed by Alex Buono. Photo-real compositing, animation and titles design.

Post-Producer with Method
Studios

Oscar-nominated dystopian psychological thriller directed by Olivia Wilde. Closing titles design and photo-real compositing.

VFX Post-Producer with Ntropic

Directed by Kevin Lewis, a grisly horror story where family secrets and ancient curses unravel a small town. Starring Mena Suvari and Meg Foster. Photo-real compositing and CG augmentation.

VFX Post-Producer with Blacksmith

Directed by Yann Demange, the true story of a 14-year old drug king-pin turned youngest FBI informant to date. Photo-real compositing and CG augmentation.

Post-Producer

7min bio-epic of rapper Jayz’s childhood.

Winner of Cannes Lions Grand Prix 2018, and AICP Best Music Video.

Producer

Macy’s 2017 Holiday Campaign.

Post-Producer

5 film campaign with Droga 5 featuring female athletes Misty Copeland, Lindsey Vonn, Natasha Hastings, Alison Désir and Zoe Zhang. Photo-real compositing and augmentation.

Producer

A short film for NBC's children's TV channel Sprout tackling the subject of kids and screen time. A fun approach to data visualization using 2D Animation and Stop Motion.

Producer: Viking and Wizard spots.

Optimum DRTV National Campaign. 2.5D animated characters composited onto live action backgrounds.

Producer: Branding, Identity, and Logo design. 

globalgoals.org

Producer

Hand-drawn frames with stop-motion, created using Cinema 4d and AE.

Producer

A 4minute, multi-sensory 20-channel live installation for the opening of AICP Next Awards 2015.

Producer: Commercials, Making Of, and Animations for Mobile Games.

An Integrated Campaign with Target and Google, exploring how technology could drive customers into Target stores with a series of mobile games which, once in store, open up more levels of rewards. Using Google's Project Tango Development Tablets, a select few stores pioneered an even more colorful onsite experience with a 3D adventure that lead the user through the aisles. 

Producer

3D character animation in Maya, Lighting/Render in XSI. 2D environmental hand-animation.

East Coast Producer: Ocean birds and fish.

Modeling and Dynamics.

Awards | Gold Clio Animation 2012 / 39th Annual Annie Awards Best Animated Television Commercial / D&AD Awards In Book: Animation 2012 / Cannes Lions Shortlisted: Animation 2012 /AICP 2012 Shortlisted: Animation / AICP 2012 Shortlisted: Design

PITCH PRODUCER

Prolific is a currently unreleased PSA exploring women's rights. As pitch-producer I worked closely with director Lauren Indovina to develop the concept narrative (which was driven by poetry) and the striking visual aesthetic that met the project's challenging budgetary restraints, winning the award.

Pitch Producer

This was one of my favorite pitches. For visuals in the treatment we shot a reenactment of the rose petal fantasy scene with Mena Suvari's in American Beauty, but featuring Mrs.Potato Head and Lay's potato chips.

Pitch Producer + "Survivor"

Photogrammetry based backgrounds and photogrammetry based character models with CG camera moves. As an additional layer of integration, Next Games took our CG character models and made them into dodgey in-game characters... :)

Producer

After Effects and Cinema 4D. 

A short film about the the history of the Google browser, used to announce in the 2012 Google I/O developer conference that Chrome was (and still remains) the most popular browser in the world.

Associate Producer

CG character animation on live-action backgrounds.

Awards | AICP Honored Animation 2012 / Gold Clio Animation 2012 / ADC Silver in Animation 2012 / AICP 2012 Shortlisted: Visual Effects.

Associate Producer

Photogrammetry based backgrounds with fully furred CG animated characters. MIO Campaign includes 'Croc-Block', 'Cheetah', and 'Naked Mole Rat.'

Awards | Shortlisted AICP Animation 2013

Associate Producer

Animation in Maya, Lighting/Rendering/Effects in XSI.

Lead Flame Artist.

Live action with copy tracked and composited onto blank pieces of paper. 

A film to honor the thousands of Humanitarian Aid workers around the world. Compositing the text allowed subsequent language translations to be made digitally. 

Assitant Flame Artist.

Live Action through a whimsical but dark lens, set extensions and VFX.

Assistant Flame Artist

Live Action and VFX.