Amit Dhawal

Amit Dhawal, Founder and CEO of Filaments Visual Effects LLC, has a proven entrepreneurship for over a decade. Apart from Filaments in USA, Amit leads Filaments Studios in Thailand and Filaments Visual Effects in India. Apart for the Studios, Amit spends a lot of his time training students at the leading Animation Academy called Frameboxx which has over 50 centers across India. Amit has a fine arts and animation background. He contributes his creative talent at Filaments as a Creative Director and Visual Effects Supervisor. Prior to finishing 'The Amazing Spiderman 2' this year, Amit supervised several shots on 'Thor: The Dark World', '300: Rise of an Empire' and 'Maleficent'. Back in the year 2008, Amit played a key role as a in-house VFX supervisor on the Emmy award winner 'John Adams'. Amit's most acclaimed work was Disney's 'The Suite Life on Deck' where he lead a team of CG Artists to help them create a photo real cruise ship and ocean simulation. Amit enjoyed working with the kids on set and also encouraged them towards the art of Visual Effects and Animation.

In 2005, Amit was awarded a certificate from the Academy of Motion Picture and Sciences (Emmy) for outstanding performance in 'The Triangle'. He worked as a senior compositor with award winning VFX supervisors Marc Wiegert and Volker Engel.