Aditya Manikashetti
Director, creative director, creative technologist
I make commercials and short films, and build the tools and workflows that hold post-production together. Email me about select projects.
Work
The Long Way Home 2025 A short documentary following a seasonal migration route through the high desert. Director.
Salt & Signal 2026 A two-minute brand film for a desalination startup, shot in one day on the coast. Director.
Glass Habits 2025 A six-spot social campaign for a glassware brand, art-directed end to end. Creative Director.
Midnight Freight 2025 A music video built around a single tracking shot through a rail yard at night. Director.
Shot Notes 2025 A frame-accurate review and annotation tool that lives in the browser. Creative Technologist.
Conform Watchdog 2024 A timeline-diff utility that flags conform drift between offline and online edits. Creative Technologist.
Invisible VFX Pipeline 2024 A review workflow for invisible VFX that keeps the supervisor, editor, and client on the same page. Creative Director.
Realtime Previs Toolkit 2024 A browser-based tool for blocking shots and previewing camera moves on set in real time. Creative Technologist.
Render Budgets 2024 An essay on treating render time as a creative constraint rather than a tax. Creative Technologist.
The Quiet Floor 2024 A short film about the night shift in a hospital laundry. Director.
Lens Memos 2023 Field notes on choosing focal lengths for interview work. Director.
Northbound 2023 A documentary short following a long-haul cyclist across three borders. Director.
Proxy City 2023 A watch-folder pipeline that builds editorial proxies before the cards finish offloading. Creative Technologist.
Second Skin 2022 A launch film for a technical apparel line, mixing live action and macro CG. Creative Director.
The Color Pass 2022 A practical guide to running remote grade reviews without a reference monitor. Creative Director.
Low Tide Studies 2021 A five-part observational series shot on intertidal flats over one season. Director.
Slate Bot 2021 A Slack bot that assembles camera reports from slate photos. Creative Technologist.
Borrowed Light 2020 A short documentary on a community darkroom operating out of a church basement. Director.
Version Zero 2019 An argument for why the first assembly should come from the director, not the editor. Creative Technologist.
Wayfinding 2018 A brand anthem for a regional transit authority, shot across fourteen stations. Director.