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⟶ Curriculum Vitae · Est. 28 · 07 · 1984
Dilip Kumar Reddy.
Creative designer, team builder, problem solver — making it simple, since the days of pencils and pixels.
Based
Chennai, TN
Role
Partner, Dotstudio
Years
13+ in design
Graphic Design✦Brand Systems●Animation◆Art Direction✦Maya 3D●Print & Editorial◆
Graphic Design✦Brand Systems●Animation◆Art Direction✦Maya 3D●Print & Editorial◆
01 / About
A boy from Odisha, schooled in Odisha, higher study in Mumbai, settled in Chennai — still in love with making things look right.
I was born and brought up in Odisha in a middle-class family. My father managed a movie theatre; my mother kept the home a home. The cinema and the kitchen — that's probably where I learned design and warmth.
I'm married to Sujata — beautiful, lovable, caring, understanding — and we have a lovely daughter, Sanvi. Family first, work second, ego nowhere.
02 / A Life in Frames
Five frames, forty years.
auto →
1990
1998
2005
201820241990199820052018202403 / Experience
Three chapters. Same craft.
2024 → Now
Partner & Design Consultant
Dotstudio + select studios
Building a studio from the inside out.
2010 → 2022
Graphic Designer
Amar Architecture & Designs Pvt Ltd (.AND)
12 years. Architecture meets visual identity. Chennai.
2008 → 2009
Faculty — Animation
Animatix Multimedia Institute, Mumbai
Taught what I had just learned. Best year for unlearning.
2003 → 2008
Student — Maya 3D / Animation
Arena Animation, Mumbai
5-year advanced digital graphics & animation.
04 / Toolkit
What I bring — and what I'm still working on.
Two decades of pixels and polygons. Here's the toolkit, rated honestly.
AI StackNew muscles
- Lovable AI8/10
- Midjourney7/10
- Runway7/10
- Open Chat7/10
- DeepSeek7/10
- Grok7/10
Old hands, new tools. Still learning every day.
Personal
Married to Sujata · Father to Sanvi · Believes in god across all religions · Holds people close.