About Anand Somasundaran
Canada
Anand fell in love with animation because it was a medium that combined two of his favorite things; drawing and film-making. He has been working as an animator since 2009 and has worked at many feature film studios such and Rhythm and Hues, Industrial Light and Magic and Sony Imageworks. He has worked on films ranging from hyper realistic VFX films such as the Academy award winning Life of Pi, DeadPool vs Wolverine to cartoony films like Cloudy with a chance of meatballs 2, Hotel Transylvania 2 and Storks. After working in films for many years he is currently really enjoying his time in video games as a gameplay animator. He worked at Relic Entertainment on Age of Empires 4 as a Senior Gameplay Animator and was the Lead Animator for the Age of Empires expansion title Sultans Ascend. He is currently working as an Expert Gameplay Animator on an unannounced title at 2K Sports.
Anand has been a teacher at Animschool since 2017, mostly helping students in foundational classes such as Animating Characters. His teaching method involves lectures combined with a lot of Maya Demos focusing on how to block a shot in 'Stepped tangents' and how to successfully transition from 'Stepped to Spline ' with emphasis on good clean workflow.
