Vishal Kawji

I have graduated from the Asian Institute of Gaming and Animation. Have spent more than 20 years working in the field of Animation, Gaming and XR. These years have been spread over in some of the top most Studios and Animation institutes like Pixeltek, MPC,Here Technologies, Polyphonic Technologies, Intuit Ecole Lab,MAAC and Frameboxx Animation and Visual effects. Worked on iRacing, one of the most hyper realistic racing simulation games managing the asset team, Have worked at HERE Maps, as a Senior Map Modeler, further worked on superhero Movies with Moving Pictures Company leading the asset team .Associated with a indie game IP Yodh as a Project Manager and Technical director.

Currently I am associated with Polyphonic technologies as a Technical Director with a vision to support Indian Film and TV industry and to direct the organization in the new technical era of Meta verse , Games, Unreal Engine and Virtual production.

Key Projects:

Yodh The Falling Start:

I am Currently associated with this projects. It started with a hobby project until as a small demo with locomotion and a level whitebox sooner to realize the potential by the stack holders at polyphonic technologies. With all the initial documents we where able to enroll for the Sony Global partnership program. The project is bifurcated in multiple parts starting with creation of the Vertical slice which is currently in-process. My Key role on Yodh started with:

1. Developing an Elevator pitch and a demo to convince and raise funds this was achieved with a 6 member team under my leadership.

2. To develop an in-house team in departments of Ideation,Preproduction, Production,Development and QA.

3. To ensure created milestone to meet the overall deadline.

4. Create workflows and Pipelines for Art and development team.

5. To help create financial plans and projections.

6. Co-ordinate with production team to set the production deadlines.

I have been involved in some of the major technical aspects like:

1. Creatine process's for Asset Creation considering optimizations.

2. Meta Humans workflows to create custom characters using Meta human workflow.

3. Level designing tools in Unreal engine to help the art and develop.

4. To set up a version controlling workflow using perforce.

Wonders of the world:

Details of the project was to create a digital museum which includes 7 wonders of the world. I was heading the project at Here Technologies .The Project was executed by a team of 7 members. My Key Responsibility was to Create Assets. Keep the Quality Check and Assemble the projects In Unreal Engine with Interaction. The Project was executed in 30 days. Wonders of the world

Range rover Metaverse:

This project was a POC for Range Rover. The Project was to create a space where Range Rover Cars could be showcased over a digital platform. My responsibility was to Create Assets Using various 3D software's Like 3Ds Max, Maya, Substance Painter and designer. Finally Creating Assembling the digital world in Unreal Engine and creating Interactivity using Blueprints. Range rover Metaverse

Environment Creation for Virtual Production :

I have been also working on film project where my Key responsibility was to create Environments in Unreal Engine 5. It includes Asset Creations , Texturing, scene Assembly in Unreal engine and finally Creating the required look development and rendering the final Shots. Environment Creation for Virtual Production.

Profile: https://yodh.artstation.com

Games:

I racing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYZeBrTvOhc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kt_pkFYwiY

Yodh the game:

https://yodhthegame.com/

TV shows:

Dharma Yoddha Garud:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXnHJhUt-Dg

Swaraj:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iv1EWZzFqU

Workshops:

Procedural Generation using Unreal Engine

https://youtu.be/dC6hVJWPMN8

Unreal Engine 4 for Virtual Production

https://youtu.be/xIc1Zun3Fd0 .

Modeling for Games

https://youtu.be/mQcQ2UFcbgA

Interviews :

1: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/vishal-kawji-gm-frameboxx-animation-founder-polyphonic/id1479853773?i=1000461436994

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri0xMdKlxnc

3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AURxPmKtH94