Vanitha Rangaraju

Vanitha Rangaraju-Ramanan (born 1970) is an Indian animator who works for DreamWorks Animation. Rangaraju was part of the team that won a 2002 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for movie Shrek, for which she was credited as Lighting Technical Director.

Early life and career

Rangaraju was born 1970 in Tiruchirappalli, where she went to school and graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture from the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli. In 1996, she pursued Master's program at the University of Texas at Austin followed by an intership at Industrial Light & Magic in 1998. Since then she has been with DreamWorks Animation. Some of her movie credits include Shrek2, Madagascar, Shrek the Third, Madagascar: Escape to Africa and Puss in Boots.