Ruchita Lodha

I work at Pixar Animation Studios as a designer for animation tools, supporting the teams that build movies you see in theaters. My day-to-day responsibilities involve everything end-to-end for a product development cycle. I sit with artists to understand their pain points and workflows, how they like to think about their art, and then I work with technology teams and designers to identify the best possible solutions. My goal is not just to optimize their workflows for speed, but to make it a comfortable and joyful experience for them to build art. My job is very unique because I'm supporting these exceptionally intelligent expert artists, and there's nothing like this that exists anywhere else in the world, so I don't have any references or examples to learn from. I think the balance between identifying core user needs and solving problems for artists while using really complex, innovative technologies is where I really enjoy my work. It's very rare for jobs or careers to have this kind of opportunity where both left and right brain can be used together, and I think that's really the magic that brought me to Pixar - the work between tech and art.