Nikhil G. ©

Post Production Lead

NIKHIL

Nikhil Gupta

AI & D2C Video

GUPTA

New Delhi, India -

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5 yrs in post / 4 D2C brands / ~50 videos a month / Brand POC — Dr. Sheth's / Hindi · English · Hinglish/

Brands I've worked on

  • Mamaearth
  • The Derma Co.
  • Aqualogica
  • Dr. Sheth's
  • BBlunt
  • vivo
  • Avishkaar
  • Asort

/ Portfolio Projects

Selected Work

/ Selected Case Studies

Two jobs, in detail

Case 01

Dr. Sheth's

The brand I hold end to end — brief to final cutdown — and the one that made the case for running post as a system rather than a queue of edits.

  • 23 films across three years, 2023–2025
  • 5 brand films at 16:9
  • 16 vertical D2C cuts, including range films, hook cuts and offer versions
  • 2 motion-graphics pieces
The brief
Sell a dermatologist-led skincare range built for Indian skin: ceramide and vitamin C, kesar and kojic, oats and ceramide, neem and salicylic, centella and niacinamide. Every launch needs a film that carries the science without sounding like a pharmacy.
What I did
One master look per range, then everything else derived from it rather than re-invented. The 16:9 brand film, the vertical cutdowns, the offer versions and the motion-graphics explainers all come off the same grade and the same type system, so the twentieth asset of a range still looks like the first. That is what makes the volume possible: the decisions are made once, at the top, and the rest is derivation.

Case 02

FIKN Elixir

A full AI generated fragrance film, and the clearest example of why I build a pipeline instead of prompting shot by shot.

  • An 84-second film, fully AI generated
  • One look held across five distinct worlds
  • Nothing shipped until I had watched it end to end
The brief
A perfume film with no shoot, no product on set and no location — carried entirely on mood, and expected to look like one piece rather than a reel of AI clips.
What I did
Most people prompt one shot at a time and get one good frame in twenty, then discover the twenty do not belong to each other. Here the look was locked first — monochrome with a single red — and every scene generated against it: an equestrian shot, a classical sculpture, a desert ridge, an ocean, product macro. Radically different subjects, one grade, one contrast curve, one red. Stills first to fix composition and lighting, motion generated from approved frames, then composited and graded together at the end.

/ Tools and Software

What tools I use

Craft

  • Premiere Pro
  • After Effects
  • DaVinci Resolve
  • Blender
  • Photoshop
  • Illustrator

AI & automation

  • Kling
  • Veo
  • Runway
  • Higgsfield
  • Magnific
  • ElevenLabs
  • Claude
  • Python

/ Career

Work Experience

  • Post Production Lead

    Honasa Consumer Limited — Gurugram

    Feb 2024 — Present

  • Video Editor & Motion Graphics Artist

    Asort.com (N/R Ventures) — Gurugram

    Oct 2022 — Feb 2024

  • Graphic Designer & Video Editor

    Geetanjali Homestate Pvt. Ltd.

    May 2022 — Sep 2022

  • Video Editor

    Avishkaar — Freelance

    Mar 2022 — Jul 2022

  • Graphic Designer

    Freelance & internship — 4 roles

    Sep 2021 — Jun 2022

    • JK Digital Marketing Agency

      Freelance

      Jan 2022 — Jun 2022

    • Kubo Architecture

      Internship

      Apr 2022

    • Graphic Daddy

      Freelance

      Mar 2022 — Apr 2022

    • Fotografik Enterprises Pvt. Ltd.

      Full-time

      Sep 2021 — Dec 2021

/ Services, Skills, Abilities

What I do best

  • 01. Campaign production, end to end

    Brief to master to every platform cut. I take a campaign from the first conversation with the brand team through to the last localised version, and I own the schedule in between.

    • Premiere Pro, After Effects, DaVinci Resolve
    • 16:9, 9:16 and 1:1 masters
    • Cutdowns and localised versions
    • VO direction in Hindi, English and Hinglish
    • Editors and motion designers coordinated
    • QC pass before every delivery
  • 02. AI-native content

    Most people prompt one shot at a time and get one good frame in twenty. I build the pipeline — a fixed sequence of models and prompt structures that holds one look across a whole campaign instead of drifting scene to scene.

    • Stills first, to lock composition and lighting
    • Motion generated only from approved frames
    • Composited and graded to match the live footage
    • Prompt structures versioned per brand
    • Generated product film and CGI
    • Nothing ships until I have watched it end to end
  • 03. Finishing & consistency

    Grade libraries and brand look systems, so the fiftieth video of the month matches the first. Colour, titles and safe-area rules live in a template rather than in someone's memory.

    • 18-LUT campaign grade library, built in Python / OpenColorIO
    • Blender for product renders and 3D elements
    • Skin tone and product colour accuracy
    • Reusable After Effects template systems
    • Scopes and broadcast-safe checks
    • ProRes and DNxHD finishing

/ About Me

Creative at the core

I run post-production for D2C beauty campaigns at Honasa Consumer Limited — brief to master to every platform cut. Around 50 videos a month, in Hindi, English and Hinglish.

I work across Mamaearth, The Derma Co., Aqualogica and Dr. Sheth's. Dr. Sheth's is mine end to end — brief to final cutdown. On the rest I coordinate editors, motion designers and brand teams, turn briefs into post instructions, and hold version control across concurrent campaigns.

I check everything on a phone before it ships. Not a calibrated monitor — a phone, held the way people actually hold it, at the brightness people actually use.

Multi-format delivery, end to end

5
Years in post-production
~50
Videos a month
4
D2C brands
4
Internal awards, 3 companies

/ Recognition

Awards and Recognition

  • 01

    Employee of the Month

    Honasa Consumer Limited

    Campaign delivery & post-production quality

  • 02

    Employee of the Month (×2)

    N/R Ventures (Asort.com)

    Quality delivery within limited timeframes

  • 03

    Quality Delivery Award

    Geetanjali Homestate Pvt. Ltd.

    Meeting project specifications on schedule

I work with brand teams, editors and motion designers turning one master cut into every version a campaign actually needs.