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At Moontrail Animation Studios, I work across the visual pipeline for original IPs, from character and environment design to concept art and animated shots. I also co-create pitch decks and series bibles that help studios, broadcasters, and partners engage with our stories.

I lead and train a team of four to five artists, building repeatable AI workflows and raising the quality bar across our work. Moontrail has grown to 7.7M+ YouTube subscribers and 75M+ monthly views in less than six months, and has been recognised as an official speaker at MIPCOM and MIPJunior in Cannes.

Before moving into animation, I worked in visual design across children's publishing, edtech, SaaS, and real estate, including senior design roles at Turing.com, Chandigarh University, and Evergreen Publications. At Evergreen Publications, I created illustrations, characters, and backgrounds for 2D games and rhymes, and worked on eLearning books and print media graphics.

As a freelance illustrator, I've illustrated 30+ children's books. I work with Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, and Procreate, and use tools including Midjourney, Flow, Leonardo, Nano Banana, Hailuo, and ChatGPT to build production workflows. I'm drawn to stories that move people and animation that connects.