Prathmesh Sawant

AI Animation Lead with experience leading animation teams, managing production pipelines, and ensuring timely delivery of high-quality episodes. Skilled in artist mentoring, workload planning, quality control, AI-assisted animation workflows, and cross-functional collaboration. Comfortable handling fast-paced productions while maintaining creative and technical standards. Passionate about improving pipelines and helping teams deliver efficiently.

AI Animation Lead at DASHVERSE (2026-03 – Present)

• Led and managed animation pods, ensuring efficient task allocation, team coordination, and on-time delivery of multiple episodic projects.
• Conducted artist performance reviews, quality assessments, and skill-gap analysis to improve team productivity and output quality.
• Managed end-to-end AI animation production pipelines, including planning, asset generation, shot execution, review cycles, corrections, and final delivery.
• Coordinated with production, creative, and leadership teams to prioritize workloads and meet project deadlines.
• Optimized AI-assisted animation workflows using tools such as Seedance, Runway, Sora, Kling, and ElevenLabs, improving production efficiency.
• Monitored project progress, identified production bottlenecks, and implemented solutions to maintain delivery schedules.
• Reviewed animation outputs for acting, emotions, timing, continuity, and overall storytelling quality.
• Mentored artists on AI workflows, prompt engineering, animation principles, and production standards.
• Managed resource planning, workload balancing, and project tracking across multiple shows simultaneously.
• Ensured adherence to studio quality standards while maintaining rapid production timelines.
• Delivered AI-generated animated sequences, cinematic content, voice-driven animations, and storytelling projects for internal and commercial productions.

AI Content Creation Intern → Associate at Cosmos Maya Studio

Worked on multiple AI-based animation and storytelling projects using generative AI tools in a studio production environment. Duration: 6 Months (3-Month Internship + 3-Month Employment).

• Contributed to AI-driven animated intros and cinematic sequences for internal and commercial animation projects.
• Played a key role in AI voice narration and dubbing using ElevenLabs, ensuring emotional accuracy and character consistency.
• Created three AI-generated horror story animations, officially published on Cosmos Maya's YouTube channel.
• Contributed 2–3 AI-generated animated shots for the Motu Patlu movie released on major OTT platforms.
• Collaborated with creative teams to refine AI workflows, improving speed.

BSc in Computer Science – Satish Pradhan Dnyansadhana College

HSC in Science – K.J. Somaiya College

SSC – Bharat Ratna SMT Indira Gandhi Vidyamandir