About

Sudha Kumar is a highly skilled Lead Animator with over 16 years of experience in the CG industry. With expertise in mobile/computer games, mobile apps, media, film, TV series, webisodes, commercials, and 3D production, Sudha has worked as an Animation Supervisor, Lead Animator, and Principal Animator. Sudha's strengths and responsibilities include expertise in casino slot games, match games, word games, and strategy games for all platforms, including IOS, Android, web, Kindle, and Amazon. She is also an expert in digital content creation tools such as Maya and 3ds Max, and the Creative Cloud Suite (PS, AE, AP). Sudha has extensive experience in Unity, with a solid understanding of the abilities and limitations of the game engine. She is capable of creating animated assets and integrating them directly into any game engine. Sudha has experience creating UI animations and UI FX for mobile games, working together with game developers and other verticals, developing prototype and feature ideas for mobile games, and leading four different games at a time, which includes animation and tech-art teams along with hands-on work. She is able to look over outsourcing work for art teams and contract employees. Sudha has traveled to San Francisco, Eugene, and Carlsbad to handle game transitions and has good experience in version tool controls like P4v and Github. Sudha is passionate about mobile games and technology and has a thorough understanding of the current mobile games market on social networks. She has composed and created around 40 game teasers/trailers for mobile games and is experienced in rigging and skinning, with strong game animation skills. Sudha is an expert in traditional animation principles, tools, acting, and experience with the motion capture to animation process, including workloads of both motion capture animation and keyframe animation. Currently, Sudha is the Lead Animator at Zynga, where she is responsible for the animation and tech art teams' day-to-day work, providing creative and technical feedback to the animators and tech-art by attending dailies on a regular basis to approve the work. She is also a contributor towards animation and tech art, along with UI art integration, and performs other tasks like vendor management by providing timely guidance and feedback to the outsourcing team. Sudha is a member of the Art Council at Studio-I representing the Animation vertical and is responsible for training and mentoring junior team members. Sudha has