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Vanitha Rangaraju-Ramanan (born 1970) is an Indian animator who works for DreamWorks Animation. Rangaraju was part of the team for movie Shrek that won an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature at the 74th Academy Awards in Los Angeles, United States and BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 55th British Academy Film Awards in London, United Kingdom, for which she was credited as Lighting Technical Director.[1][2][3]
Early life
Rangaraju was born 1970 in Tiruchirappalli, where she went to school and graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture from the Regional Engineering College, Tiruchirappalli (now known as National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli). In 1996, she pursued Master's program at the University of Texas at Austin followed by an internship at Industrial Light & Magic in 1998. Since then she has been with DreamWorks Animation.[1]
Filmography
Vanitha has worked in the following films and shows:[4]
| Name | Role | Year | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shrek | technical director: lighting and effects | 2001 | ||
| Sprout | lead lighter | 2002 | ||
| Shrek 2 | lead lighter | 2004 | ||
| Madagascar | lead lighter | 2005 | ||
| The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper | lead lighter | 2005 | ||
| Shrek the Third | effects lead | 2007 | ||
| Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa | computer graphics supervisor | 2008 | ||
| Merry Madagascar | head of lighting | 2009 | ||
| Scared Shrekless | digital effects supervisor | 2010 | ||
| Puss in Boots | head of lighting | 2011 | ||
| Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted | visual effects supervisor | 2012 | ||
| Dragons | Riders of Berk (season 1) | Viking for Hire (episode 2) | overseas visual effects supervisor | 2012 |
| The Terrible Twos (episode 4) | ||||
| Madly Madagascar | digital effects supervisor | 2013 | ||
| The Boss Baby | visual effects supervisor | 2017 | ||
| The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run | visual effects supervisor | 2020 | ||