Profile

For the past 24 years Renju Ramesh has been part of the animation industry, working with some of the top animation studios in India, holding various titles, as the Creative Director, Head-APAC Division, Consulting Creative Head, Supervisory Director, Preproduction director at different stages of his career. Starting his professional journey in the industry in 2000 at the Layout division of Toonz Animation India, he moved on to work in storyboarding, Design & story Development, Episodic Direction & then on to Creative direction & head of development for many of the animated series, both domestic & international.

Functioning as Head of the APAC division he oversaw the directors & producers of all domestic Projects & collaborated with partner studios/broadcasters in India to execute projects that ran successfully across many seasons. As Consulting Creative Director at Prayan Animation Studio, Studio CCA & TMEFX he guided the team in executing projects for their international & domestic clients. At his recent stint at Toonz he functioned as the Created head of the harmony division, directing some of their international pitch projects, special shorts, teasers & test works.

In 2018 he joined back Toonz Animation India Pvt Ltd as the Creative Director, overseeing the harmony division and a few International co-productions and shorts.

From Oct 2020 onwards he is been working as a Creative consultant (freelance), directing & supervising the storyboarding & preproduction development for upcoming Tv series and movie projects.

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Professional History

Creative Consultant (Freelance) 2020 -present

Creative Director at Toonz Animation India Pvt. Ltd. 2018-2020

Consulting Creative Head at TMEFX 2017-2018

Consulting Creative Head at CCA Pvt Ltd 2015-2017

Consulting Creative Director at Prayan Animation studio Pvt Ltd from 2014-2015

Creative director and head of development, Toonz Animation India 2012-2013

Creative director and Head-Toonz APAC division 2012-2013

Creative director, home productions in Toonz Animation India Pvt. Ltd.

In-house project director at Toonz Animation India Pvt. Ltd.

Senior Creative Designer at Toonz Animation India Pvt. Ltd.

Story board artist at Toonz Animation India from the year 2002

Character/Props designer at Toonz Animation India Pvt Ltd

Layout artist at Toonz Animation India Pvt Ltd for 6 years from 2001.

Started at Toonz Animation India Pvt Ltd as Junior Layout artist trainee September 2000.

Filmography REQUEST FOLIO

  • The Canterville Ghost (storyboards)2021
  • Bhagwan Bharose [title sequence animatic-upcoming Hindi Movie]2021
  • Naagin [VFX sequence boards -upcoming Hindi Movie]2021
  • NTEOTW [Toonz Entertainment/Wildseed, co-production] 22 x 13 for SKY 2020
  • Bogie ( Series Teaser 2020)
  • AMS signature video 2019
  • Malish TV signature videos 2019
  • Pakdam Pakdai 22 x 26 for Nick India
  • KidKrrish 60 min x 4 TV Feature for CN
  • Swamy Ayyappan 90 min theatrical feature
  • Ben10 specials
  • Howzzattt [Toonz Entertainment] 22 x 13 for Discovery kids2011
  • Shiva 1 & 2 [Toonz Entertainment] 60 min TV film [Cartoon Network]
  • Wolverine – Marvel Studios, USA (26 X 26 minutes)
  • Gofrette [Subsequence Entertainment, Canada] 26 * 11minutes [Toonboom harmony],2008
  • The Adventures of Hanuman Teaser[Toonz Entertainment] [Cartoon Network] ,2009
  • The Legends of The Ring Of Fire [Disney – Singapore] 8 X 5 minutes
  • The Adventures of Tenali Raman [Toonz Entertainment] 26 X 11 minutes
  • Tommy & Oscar, The Movie (Rainbow Srl., Italy) (2D/3D combo)
  • Willo The Wisp (Willo TV, UK) 26 X 5 minutes
  • Awesome Kids (Awesome Kids LLC, USA) 5 X 60 minutes
  • Brady's Beast (Toonz/ Tree house / Vivatoon / Teva) 52 X 11 minutes
  • Horrid Henry (Novel Entertainment) 52 X 11 minutes
  • Land of Gnoo (Children Of Faith, USA) Christmas Special
  • Katya & The Nutcracker (John Cary Studios) Christmas Special
  • The 13th Kitten (2SidesTV, UK) Halloween Special
  • King Pele – DigiKore 12 X 3 minutes
  • 'The Week’ (commercial),FCB Ulka
  • Twin Princes -Ani21, Korea
  • Dreem Teenz – Dreem TV, Australia
  • Geet Mahabharath -Toonz Animation India Pvt Ltd (ToonBoom Harmony)
  • Turtle Island (Mimosa Productions, Canada) 26 X 11
  • Prezzy(26 X 30 min animated episodes)-Rainbow studios, Italy

Services

Directorial/Development/Pre-Production Services

Show Direction/
Preproduction Supervision

Design/
Art Direction

Storyboarding/Animatic

Character Designs/
Props Designs/
Location Designs

Key Bg Layouts/
Production Layouts

UI Design

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