Aryan Advani
CA
Summary
Highly skilled and passionate artist with expertise in animation, illustration, and visual storytelling. Proficient in both traditional and digital mediums to help and create visually appealing work and efficient pipelines in the Metaverse and marketing industries. Proven ability to meet deadlines and deliver high-quality work. Seeking new opportunities to contribute creative vision and technical expertise to the field of animation and art. Having a library of different software that are capable of doing steps of a workflow more efficiently, opens the door to so many new possibilities in this industry. Recently building my creative background which consists of hybrid projects of different mediums to further the aesthetic of a shot.
Overview
2
2
years of professional experience
Work History
President
Interfraternal Council
12.2024 - Current
- Oversaw 9 fraternities with about 800 members in total and decided disciplinary actions.
- Planned and executed career nights and job fairs to provide connections and opportunities with alumni and companies.
- Planned events between the school and Greek life to further merge relations with students.
Rigging Consultant
65 Square
06.2024 - Current
- Answered questions and created tutorials for efficient retopologizing and texturing.
- Having weekly meetings with team leads to discuss problems in the pipeline.
- Taught collaborations between Maya and Unity to maximize efficiency, as well as consulting in rigging and texturing problems
President
Sigma Nu Fraternity Inc.
08.2023 - 06.2024
- Led 45 members and developed goals to increase brotherhood and make fraternal activities more efficient.
- Managed an executive board of 10 members to oversee fundraising and facilitate activities with the school
3D Animator/Rigger Intern
Tokyo White International
06.2023 - 06.2024
- Led a team of 5 to retopologize, rig, and animate models to showcase digital fashion designs.
- Used Maya and Blender to integrate characters into Unreal Engine.
- Created a pipeline to seamlessly incorporate Maya animation capabilities into Blender for compositing.
- Helped animate and promote metaverse avatar attire. Work is featured on spacial.io.
Education
Bachelors - DMA
San Jose State University
San Jose, CA02.2025
Skills
- Computer Graphics
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe Photoshop
- Illustration
- 2D Animation
- 3D animation
- Retopology
- Rigging
- Maya
- Blender
- Toonboom
Awards
- Best in Interfraternal Council - Won award for having exceptional contributions to the campus fraternity council including, bringing forth a new chapter, improving IFC attendance, and setting an example for impressive collaborations with other school organizations.
- Render challenge - Used blender to create a unique drop simulation. Combined my animating and simulating skills to create a scene. Featured in the render challenge and was awarded a participation award.
Portfolio
- Animation Blog
- Website
- Demo Reel 2024
Timeline
President
Interfraternal Council
12.2024 - Current
Rigging Consultant
65 Square
06.2024 - Current
President
Sigma Nu Fraternity Inc.
08.2023 - 06.2024
3D Animator/Rigger Intern
Tokyo White International
06.2023 - 06.2024
Bachelors - DMA
San Jose State University