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Meghana P R

Bangalore

Summary

Ambitious and goal driven in production with more than 6 years of experience as the liaison between production and departments. Responsible for coordinating the transfer of data and arrange the day-to-day running of the team production as well as the control of schedules, transmitting proof, planning deliveries maintaining records and status reports. Assessing project risks and proactively resolving issues.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Sr CG Coordinator

Passion Pictures
London
06.2023 - 12.2023
  • Plan production/project schedule and work assignment as per delivery timeline
  • Enter and maintain production data in the studio's production database, Shotgrid, excel sheets and related production/project records to reflect scheduled, in-progress, and completed project work
  • Schedule meetings at the request of the Production Manager, Supervisor and Lead(s)
  • Proactively maintain the calendar with alertness to topics, deadlines and conflicts
  • Manage the schedules of key personnel and the production department
  • Ensure proper preparation for all meetings and reviews
  • Ensure daily tasks are assigned and all production team members deliver work on time and as per the schedule
  • Coordinate work that enters and leaves the production department to ensure completeness
  • Record and publish notes from meetings and reviews that accurately reflect action items
  • Meet production milestones and deadlines and motivate the team to do the same.
  • Facilitated communication between different departments in order to resolve issues quickly.

Production Coordinator

Blue Zoo Animation Pvt ltd
London
03.2023 - 05.2023
  • Act as the communication hub across the Storyboard team
  • Meeting the team daily in 1:1’s managing their progress against the schedule and proactively offering solutions to any internal delays with the Storyboard Supervisor
  • Assisting with day-to-day production tasks as required by the Production Manager to ensure projects remain on schedule
  • Run dailies with Storyboard Supervisor and Production Manager to share progress across the department
  • Help to plan and troubleshoot the pipeline for production
  • Responsible for internal departmental schedule updates based on the latest information from the crew
  • Communicate with the Production Manager and Storyboard Supervisor if delays to internal departmental schedule is likely to impact other departments
  • Plan with the available resources to optimize the efficiency of the Storyboard Department, in line with the schedule and budget
  • Ensuring the team is working towards the various goals and deadlines that the production demands.

Sr CG Coordinator

Passion Pictures
London
08.2021 - 09.2021
  • Attend scheduling meetings and provide daily information on delivery targets
  • Work with leads/artists to ensure targets are met and deadlines achieved
  • Chase outstanding elements as per Director/Supervisor/leads request
  • Work with editorial to ensure all relevant material for the show is correctly located
  • Generate playlists via Shotgun for daily internal reviews and bi-weekly CG Supervisor reviews, record and issue feedback
  • Chase outstanding elements as per Director/Supervisor/leads request
  • Conduct dailies with Leads, taking notes and issuing internally to artists
  • Responsible for all notes, briefs, procedural changes to shots and committing all relevant data to relevant pages in Shotgun
  • Report any delays in correlation with the current schedule immediately, work with Producer to amend delivery schedule accordingly.

VFX Line Producer

Pixelloid Pvt Ltd
Hyderabad
04.2020 - 11.2020
  • Meet with clients to review scripts, breakdowns and storyboards for a specific project
  • Partner with Key Creative’s to develop the approach for creating the effects work and provide clients with estimates of budget & schedule requirements needed to complete the work
  • Prepare bid letter, key dates schedule, and assumptions for the work of a specific project
  • Organize dailies, rounds and meetings, taking notes and following up on information as necessary
  • Data movement of the project reference, cad data etc
  • For artist's use
  • Monitoring of wip updates from the nuke team to the hiero editorial pipeline, and final wips to DI team
  • Ensure production database (Shotgun) is kept updated daily with notes and critical information
  • Communicating information quickly and succinctly to crew and other departments
  • Liaison between multiple vendors, working with the VFX coordinator and editorial team in London and NY to ensure successful delivery of all shots.

Associate Line Producer

DNEG (ReDefine) Pvt Ltd
Hyderabad
06.2017 - 03.2020
  • Developed and initiated projects, including managing data, schedule and performance
  • Support the VFX Producers, Line Producers, Editorial and other Coordinators in implementing project plans and meeting deadlines
  • Responsible of bidding new shots or changes to the current scope of work and manpower
  • Oversee general scheduling and Project Manager Project plan
  • Organize dailies, spotting and meetings, taking notes and following up on information as necessary & implementation at the earliest
  • Responsible for overall schedule and budget management
  • Provide regular weekly reporting to the Line Producer and Producers
  • Ensure a process is in place for transparent and timely communication within the production team and to clients
  • Work with the Line Producers to define and document production workflows in partnership with the client before production begins and adapt as necessary
  • Manage and develop the Production Manager and Production Coordinators, overseeing their workload and providing support as and when required.

VFX Coordinator

Billion Themes Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
09.2015 - 06.2017
  • Maintain shot status and artist targets and be able to always produce show status
  • Take, receive and disseminate internal and client shot notes
  • Managing and maintaining record of data received from client and passing information and reference material to the team
  • Make sure that artists have necessary information and elements to begin work efficiently
  • Set weekly targets with VFX supervisor and VFX Producer
  • Ensure artists are clear on their targets
  • Anticipate and raise any concerns about targets, deadlines, etc
  • Based on daily artist activity
  • Arrange, attend and manage meetings, turnovers, reviews with VFX Supervisor and artists, ensure that all notes are transmitted to the artists
  • Organize dailies and take notes
  • Keep artists and supervisors up to date with information – client notes, shot changes, modifications
  • Relay information to producer if anticipated or schedule implications
  • Scheduling and executing dailies for internal shot reviews
  • Managing and maintaining record of data received from client and passing information and reference material to the team.

Education

MSc - Management

Coventry University
London
11.2022

BSc - Multimedia Animation & Visual Effects

Annamalai University
Chennai
08.2015

Skills

  • Risk analysis and management
  • Workflow planning
  • Project development
  • Management information systems
  • Production planning
  • Artist management
  • Operations management
  • Bidding planning
  • Team Leadership
  • Operations
  • Vendor’s management
  • Account management
  • Data management
  • Day to Day delivery management
  • Microsoft Office
  • Microsoft Office Excel
  • Power point presentation
  • Shot grid
  • F Track
  • Nuke
  • Silhouette
  • FMP (File manager pro)

Timeline

Sr CG Coordinator

Passion Pictures
06.2023 - 12.2023

Production Coordinator

Blue Zoo Animation Pvt ltd
03.2023 - 05.2023

Sr CG Coordinator

Passion Pictures
08.2021 - 09.2021

VFX Line Producer

Pixelloid Pvt Ltd
04.2020 - 11.2020

Associate Line Producer

DNEG (ReDefine) Pvt Ltd
06.2017 - 03.2020

VFX Coordinator

Billion Themes Pvt Ltd
09.2015 - 06.2017

MSc - Management

Coventry University

BSc - Multimedia Animation & Visual Effects

Annamalai University
Meghana P R