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Sayak Bandyopadhyay
Sayak Bandyopadhyay
Look Development TD | AI & Hybrid 3D Workflows
Kolkata, India

Summary

I am a Look Development Technical Director and Senior Lighting Artist specializing in the intersection of heavy traditional 3D rendering and cutting-edge generative AI workflows. My focus is engineering hybrid pipelines that drastically reduce compute times and bypass expensive cloud render farms without sacrificing photorealism.

Core Expertise: Pipeline Engineering: Bridging Maya, Redshift, and Chaos Phoenix with ComfyUI, Stable Diffusion, and ControlNet.

Optimization: Multi-GPU hardware management and deep VRAM optimization for heavy hard-surface and simulation rendering.

Compositing & LookDev: Temporal smoothing, depth mapping, GFI stitching, and photoreal lighting.

Skills

Rendering3D Animation3D VisualizationLightingPhotographyGraphic DesignPhysically Based Renderinglig

Software proficiency

3ds Max
3ds Max
After Effects
After Effects
Maya
Maya
Photoshop
Photoshop
Substance 3D Painter
Substance 3D Painter
Unreal Engine
Unreal Engine
V-Ray
V-Ray
Premiere
Premiere
Arnold
Arnold
Corona Renderer
Corona Renderer
Redshift
Redshift
Lumion
Lumion

Reel

Productions

    • Movie
      Alienated
    • Year
      2019
    • Role
      Director, Modeler, Animator, Renderer, Editor
    • Company
      Living Lens Productions
    • Movie
      Dogfight
    • Year
      2018
    • Role
      Director, Modeler, Animator, Renderer, Editor
    • Company
      Living Lens Productions

Experience

  • Design Intern at Little Bird India
    Delhi, India
    June 2019 - July 2019

    I worked at this furniture company as a designer, and I designed children's furniture and provided 3D renders for the furniture.

  • Lighting Artist at SVFX Studios
    Kolkata, India
    June 2018 - August 2018

    I joined as a lighting artist in the studio and work on lighting 3D scenes and characters for television and film Visual Effects, and Animated films. I had to quit working because of having to continue academic studies.

  • Freelance Video Editor at Ginesys
    Kolkata, India
    March 2017 - June 2017

    I was responsible for editing videos for software presentations and creating tutorial videos with on screen effects, using After Effects and Premiere Pro.

  • Intern Content Creator at Techno-Twit Solutions
    Mumbai, India
    January 2016 - March 2016

    I was the content creator for this mobile app development company, responsible for creating short presentation videos.