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Emmy & Multiple Award-Winning Animator & Graphic Artist
ABOUT PRATIK PARIJA
Emmy and multiple other award-winning Animator and Graphic Artist working for The Walt Disney Company at ABC News since June 2021.
I am also a freelance UX Designer working with a group of Wall Street experts to design Order Entry UI for their new Trading System since March, 2020. The new product is scheduled to complete prototype in August, 2022.
I have BS (Integrated Digital Media) from NYU Tandon School of Engineering, 2016, and MS (Information Systems) from New Jersey Institute of Technology, 2020.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/pratikparija
PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
GRAPHIC ARTIST AT ABC NEWS
June 2021 -
o Involved in creating creative graphics packages and animated graphics for special projects based on news stories and also some day-to-day news stories for mainly ABC News Live using Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and After Effects.
o Involved in building templates using Ross Xpression for on-air use.
o Involved in a 2024 duPont-Columbia Silver Baton Award-winning story, Trashed: The Secret Life of Plastic Recycling.
o Involved in a 2023 National Native Media Awards-winning story, Embracing the rich history of being Mahu.
o Involved in a National Headliner Awards-winning story in 2023, The Women Left Behind.
o Involved in a Gracie Award-winning story in 2022, ABC News Exclusive: 'Baby Roe' breaks her silence.
o Worked as lead designer on ABC New's HULU special Tone Death: Loss & Hip-Hop.
o Worked on the look and animations for ABC New's segment Cashing In with Elizabeth Schulze.
o Worked as lead designer on ABC New's segment POPCORN with Peter Travers.
GRAPHIC ARTIST AT NEWS 12 THE BRONX
March 2017 - May 2021
o Emmy Award win in 2021 for Summer of Violence.
o Edward R. Murrow Award win in 2020 for Hate at Home: A Year of Intolerance.
o Two NY Press Club award wins in 2020 and 2021 for Justice for Junior: Terror of the Trinitarios and Team 12 Investigates: Web of Lies respectively.
o Edited pictures, created creative graphics package based around news stories, created creative banners for TV/News broadcast using Adobe Photoshop.
o Produced creative animated graphics and video edits using videos and pictures for TV/News broadcast with tools such as Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, and Final Cut Pro.
o Created on-air transitions through VIZrt.
o Responsible for creating graphics looks/animated opens for the following special segments:
• What’s Going On • Stylin’ For Less • Making Cents with Kristie • City Hall In Your Borough • Carnival 2017 • Bronx Week 2018 • First And 12 • 12 On Wrestling • Hispanic Heritage Month
o Creating major graphics for network specials like:
• Justice For Junior • Many specials under Team 12 Investigates, the News 12 investigative segment.
UX DESIGNER FOR TRADING SYSTEM
January 2020 -
• It is a new Trading System (name TBD) built by a group of Wall Street experts for Traders and Financial Advisors. The product is being designed using micro services, BOTs & Message Bus. This product is likely to have its first prototype in Aug 2022. I am working as a UX designer to design the Order Entry UI. I work closely with the Product Manager, who provides requirements for the UX.
• UX Designer for the Order Entry UI
o Designed the default page (landing page)
o Designed Account Type Ahead
o Designed Symbol Type Ahead
o Designed Error , Warning & Attestation
o Designed Buy Order Entry page, Order Review Page, Order Confirm Page
o Designed Sell Order Entry page, Order Review Page, Order Confirm Page
UNITY & 3D DEVELOPER INTERN AT LOVE8
February 2017 - September 2017
o Created realistic 3D environments using Maya and creating UV maps, textures, bump maps, and light maps.
o Created 3D assets for VR and AR projects being developed using the Unity game engine.
GRAPHIC DESIGNER AT VERIZON WIRELESS
August 2016 - December 2016
o Created vector based art such as learning maps and logos, along with some front-end web development for the project, Earn the Right among others within Verizon Wireless.
o Created work using a mix of the tools Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.
3D MODELER AT REVELATIONS STUDIOS
March 2016 - August 2016
o Created 3D models of props and different objects that will be used by the characters for the studio's first game Beyond Equilibrium using Maya.
FREELANCE MOTION GRAPHICS ARTIST AT ENFILMS
May 2016
o Developed motion graphics for the teaser/trailer of a film project using After Effects.
o Creating storyboards and did minor video editing using Photoshop/After Effects.
GRAPHIC DESIGN INTERN AT CBS TELEVISON DISTRIBUTION
September 2015 - December 2015
o Collaborated with the Graphics Department to create Graphics for CBS's show Inside Edition.
o Developed motion graphics for news stories by utilizing After Effects.
o Designed logos and enhanced photos for news stories every day using Photoshop/Illustrator.
GRAPHIC ARTIST INTERN AT GRAPHIC CREATIVE INC.
May 2015 - September 2015
o Generated logos and edited photos on design concepts and posters, created storyboard and animatic, and also 3D assets using Photoshop, After Effects, and Maya.
ASSISTANT 3D ANIMATOR AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
March 2015 - July 2015
o Digitally recreated and showcased a famous 15th century sculpture through an interactive display using Unreal Engine 4.
o Produced 3D assets and animations for the digital environment/character using Maya.
GRAPHIC DESIGN/2D ANIMATION INTERN AT GUITARIST INC.
June 2014 - January 2015
o Developed video game UI designs, in-game assets, and 2D animated promotional video using Illustrator and After Effects.
COLLEGE CLASS
2017-2019
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EDUCATION
New Jersey Institute of Technology
2017 - 2020
Received my Master of Science in Information Systems.
NYU Tandon School of Engineering
2011 - 2016
Received my Bachelor of Science in Integrated Digital Media in January 2016.
County Prep High School
2007 - 2011
Received my Diploma with major in Medical Science.
T.E. Lawrence
"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible."