Gunjan Kathale
Surfacing Supervisor
London United Kingdom
Professional Status
Employed
Open to opportunities
About Me
Surfacing Supervisor and Look Development Technical Supervisor with 18+ years of experience across feature animation and VFX. Equally artistic and technical, with a strong ability to translate complex art direction into production-ready 3D assets. Proven track record designing scalable surfacing and asset workflows, leading multi-disciplinary build teams, and supporting studios through pipeline evolution. Proficiency in Supervising Surfacing teams and capable of spearheading Build departments across characters and environments.
Senior Surfacing Artist
Double Negative
June 2017
to June 2020
London
United Kingdom
- Ron’s Gone Wrong - Locksmith Animation
- Played a fundamental role in designing and implementing DNEG Animation’s first Generics / Crowds Surfacing System
- Collaborated with Pipeline to introduce USD-based workflows into the studio (2019)
- Designed indexing systems to drive colors, patterns, and textures in Katana, resolved at render time
- Developed Houdini-based randomization workflows to generate large-scale crowd variation
- Iterated over multiple production cycles to improve robustness and scalability of the system
- Designed and implemented eye shaders and window box shaders still in use today
- Acted beyond role scope to:
- Design workflows
-Support tool development
-Assist artists and leads
- Design workflows
- Began formal leadership trajectory during this production
