boo!

Treatment tryouts for Ghar

2011-12-11T10:08:00.000+05:30

On a sidenote, I convocated earlier this week :)

Ghar!

2011-09-22T02:37:00.001+05:30

Hi blog! I know I've been really boring, no new posts in a really long time. I'll try posting here more often. I've been super caught up working on my diploma film, which it's just SO much work, but work I love doing :) The picture above is a mood board for my film. My film's called Ghar (Home) and is finally taking shape. I'm so excited to see it finished! Will post animation line tests and other snippets from the film as and when they get done. All feedback welcome!

Bechain Books

2011-07-12T00:43:00.004+05:30

And yet another Bechain Nagri post :P

I've been yabbarelling so much about Bechain Nagri in the past couple of posts, that I really should take this one as an excuse to tell you about it.

You know we're way past our graduation year right? teeheee, having taken up ambitious diploma projects that spilled into an whole extra year (and counting), me and a bunch of friends bid our goodbyes to hostel life and now live in a rented apartment close to campus. And if you've had to call your papa in the beginning of every month screeching 'papppaaaaa...account mein paisa dalo!', and if you've also been a big fat 22 year old something while doing this, you'll understand just how hard it is to make that damn call.

Sniff!

Anyway, but really, it was time we did something to pay our own electricity bills! And while that remains an excuse, we really wanted to have some fun and have something else to look forward to while working on our short films.

We love sketchbooks, and we love drawing, so we combined the two and made these really nice open spine sketchbooks with illustrated covers and launched them at our college fest, RGB. You can see pictures of those madness filled days here.

The prints to the left are my set of prints. They're drawings done on photographs I'd clicked on a trip to Rajasthan earlier this year. I really like photographs, quaint and empty spaces, and doodling. I enjoyed doing this series because I could throw all of it in.

The pixellated design at the bottom of the pile is on it's way! If you like what you see here, do join our facebook page and we'll keep you updated :)

RGB Tees!

2011-07-11T21:31:00.003+05:30

More tees :)

I designed this series for NID's intercollege design fest, RGB: Share.Design.Play.

Here's what they're called :

1) Share Your Jalebees
2) Design Fake Beemaries
3) Play Colourful Holies

*grin*

So this year we celebrated desi design, the entire feel of the fest being very local, colourful, kitschy...and the juniors did a rather good job of peppering the campus with lifesize carrom boards, Rajnikant, and jhintak truck graphics.

I had total fun figuring the word play for this lot. Also, the entire desi thing went perfect with the idea, so llaalalaaaa!

Also, it was fun to have second round of tees printed this year :)

The character drawings are done by my friend Kc (who should be crunched under a sumo wrestlers butt for not updating his blog!)

So that's that! I wish I'd thought of taking pictures of people wearing the tees, but I forgot :P

EDI tee

2011-07-11T21:00:00.000+05:30

My first t-shirt print ever !!

I made this for a friend, who studied at the Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India. His batch graduated this year, and wanted a batch tee as a keepsake.

So here are the designs of the front and the back, and then the entire bunch of EDI-ots wearing them at the bottom.

Don't ask me how a tower of hairy elephants found their way on a seriousass entrepreneurship tee :P

I do hope it works better than caricatures of Mallya, Tata, Birla and other fancy honchos they wanted me to stamp on the tee, something I vigorously shook my head in the negative to before they even finished their sentence.

I love thinking in characters. That's why I love animation and animation people :) There's always fun to look forward to!

Nandini

2011-07-11T19:05:00.000+05:30

Sudha

2011-07-10T03:55:00.005+05:30

Threadless!

2011-07-02T16:04:00.003+05:30

I just entered my first submission for threadless loves patterns challenge :)

girgit

2011-06-30T05:32:00.001+05:30

ok, so i'm being cheap and posting a birthday card i splashed up for a friend who's party i couldn't attend. he's a part of a studio called girgit (chameleon) and in some unexplainable way looks like the dude on the rainbow. it's been a reeeeaaly long time since i played around with watercolours, and by doing this instant card today reminded me of just how much i love watercolours!

ps: i just kinda realised, isn't it funny how this guy, and the elephant and gandhi in my previous two posts share the same grin? o_O note to self : draw. sad. people. from. time. to. time. angry shall also do, occasionally.

Yellephaant!

2011-06-30T05:06:00.002+05:30

this is the artist note that's going to be there in all the books i've made for bechain nagri!

there's substantial explanation i need to give before i talk like 'bechain nagri' has been in the dictionary for years and assume you know exactly what it means. i will, sometime, soon, promise.

oh.my.god.i'm.writing.a.blog.post.

2011-06-30T04:50:00.003+05:30

eeeeeeeeee! this place feels alien. this..this..ACT.feels.alien. THIS act of writing a blog post. it's been 223434888389f89jkfdo9u2394u594884848843oo3o332299 seconds since my last post no? i'm sorry, i've been spending too much time in the inside of my head. i've been keeping busy with two big things. my diploma film (i'll post something soon!) and bechain nagri (click click click), which along with tiresomeness and insane amounts of brain churning, has also been lots of fun! i made the above illustration for rejoicing the 500 likes we got on facebook today.

people were weird about me posting this saying 'beware, it might be offensive.' i really think indians should learn to laugh at themselves. there are lots of things in india i'd like to change. but that'll be another post..sometime. but i think our country is awesome.

i don't even know what to write. hmm..sssso. what all has happened since november 24th 2010? hmm. lets see. got rabbits (the ones that eat paper, and have special taste for my roald dahl books). got a new flatmate. launched bechain nagri. made tshirts that got printed! read a few books on entrepreneurship. had some madass parties. animated. learnt to cook reasonably. GOT GIFTED A MACBOOK PRO :D made a lot of trips to bombay. travelled to udaipur. read the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. danced like never before. got one haircut. rollerbladed. grew some perspective plants. made considerable progress in diploma film. converted one room in our house to a studiospace. wrote a lot of blogposts in my head. and forgot all about them. *grumble*

annnyyway. i should get myself to sleep. i'm going to share some stuff from my diploma film soon. and i will post more often now on. i have a mac and 24*7 internet connection. i should not be allowed to make excuses for not updating my blog.

also, my adopted brother has a blog. you'll find it at www.dredmystic.blogspot.com, check it out! he makes good stuff, sometimes :P

2010-11-24T19:11:00.007+05:30

I'm documenting my diploma film, Ghar. It's not even made yet, and I'm documenting it. I detest institute formalities that require me to do this! Anyhow, while I'm at it anyway, thought I'd have some fun. The illustration is for the intro page, the doodle me will be jumping across pages expelling speech bubble blabber wherever required.

2010-11-12T16:37:00.004+05:30

Found her standing in a corner of a very old sketchbook.
I think I'll call her Binaca.

2010-07-24T02:02:00.016+05:30

This 18 year old chick I've never met featured me on her blog today, here. So of course I felt all honoured and all. With great honour comes great obligation, said Batman. So I made this for one for her posts which i found rather entertaining. To make any sense of the above illustration and read that rather entertaining post, you must go here. This chick Shreya is fun to read and makes me feel all 18 and awesome inside.

Afterthought : I don't remember having used this chick word so loosely since I was 18 :P
Admission: I've ripped the canteen image right off some dude's website! Like I'm that awesome!

:D

2010-07-23T22:24:00.012+05:30

Birthdaycardtype matter usually never takes up pixelspace on my blog, but i just couldnt stop myself from putting this one up! I've been grinning two hours nonstop since I got his reply, THATS how thrilled I am :) He's The Awesomest! *swoon*

So. I was speaking to Reddy the other day and he said I was lucky to have worked with someone as enthusiastic as Vaibhav. Hell yea :) He's this super huge animator but he'll look at at a barking dog and with utmost sincerity and respect ask, "Ji, aap kyon bhaunk rahe ho?" And so full exciting ideas always. I totally admire him. Internship at his studio last summer taught me not just important animation lessons, but life lessons as well. It was awesome just being around someone as full of life as him :)
bhai, if you dont believe me, asssk the Pankaazz!

Do you realise the only way you can ever possibly touch me is by clicking on me?

2010-07-23T13:09:00.006+05:30

2010-07-21T02:03:00.018+05:30

This one's for those rainy afternoons,
that cosy corner in my room,
my new mp3 player,
and sinfully beautiful beautiful music.
And, peace. Oodles schmoodles of it.

Ps: Song of the day - Traffic in the Sky, Jack Johnson.

Mungyani

2010-07-03T13:44:00.007+05:30

My first study in pastels! Please do leave feedback!

An Epic of the 3 Crows

2010-06-26T02:26:00.009+05:30

One crow sat cawing on the earth.
The other perched itself upon a cloud.
And the third one flew off with his masters house.

Thats all!
:P

2010-06-26T01:27:00.009+05:30

GRIN , GRINNER, GRINNEST.

samundar kinare :)

2010-06-26T01:06:00.004+05:30

Last July at Barista,

2010-06-25T23:21:00.017+05:30

with a stomach full of hyperactive butterflies, a girl doodled these other two on her Wacom. She kept throwing anxious glances at the door every now and again, and then...it finally swung open. She instantly plunged her eyes back into her laptop screen and began colouring furiously, trying to look her busy and important best, until that all too familiar shadow loomed over her. Did shadows grow with age?

"Wow, you look pretty. I love your hair", said the shadow.

The girl looked up and smiled at an already grinning face.

Nope, shadows don't grow with age, they grow bigger with light, and smaller too. And sometimes, they disappear altogether.

Only to come back again :)

2010-06-15T13:39:00.012+05:30

she's praying hard to the Gods for The Carpet to take off.

ANY minute now...

2010-06-04T21:45:00.014+05:30

So it's been a reeeaaaallyy long time since i posted anything on blog boo! "boo...boo...!" :P

The past few months have seen me going mad battling the writer's block, all in search for a story to animate for my final year film at NID. Stories have always meant something special, and i wouldnt dare start animating a story that didn't spell magic to me! And i think i've finally found the right thing. (a lot of credit goes to Suddy, who's been exercising his greys with me for hours over cappuccino, ginger chai and purple coloured cherry shake) The image here is a little model i made for the same story...

Wilderness

2010-01-18T17:58:00.011+05:30

I've been in an abnormally clingy mood over the past couple of weeks, so much that even my boyfriend scoots at the sight of me. Sigh...looks like I'll have some travel to do inorder to sastify my..ahem..."clingy tendencies"!

I live...here.

2010-01-11T16:21:00.006+05:30

IF: Confined

2010-01-10T21:24:00.011+05:30

I hate this painting. I was done many many years ago, back in the days when i still stayed at home with my parents and had to study horrid science things from ugly looking books. I hated how nothing went my way and used to lock myself in my room to ignore all wierd things the world oustide expected me to do. I sat there and did nothing as time kept ticking. I'm so happy i don't live in that part of my life anymore, confined to things i didn't care two pennies about.

2010-01-05T14:36:00.003+05:30

The Illustration Workshop

2009-10-24T13:21:00.003+05:30

Several months ago, our college hosted a two day illustration workshop. The workshop conductors were a varied bunch of people and after they talked about themselves and showed us some work, it was for us to do something. Participants were split into groups and were given different briefs on things to illustrate for children. Our brief was to re-tell an existing story. I picked the story of Airavat, but I simply could not get myself to modify it by adding modern day things like a videogame or something in it. The story was good enough I felt, and until I could tweak the classic the way Roald Dalh did, I had no right to mess with it. So I decided to make it a fun read. Having always enjoyed reading rhymes, I thought I'd try one myself. So yeah, below the illustration is the rhyme version of the story, and the illustration...well thats the only one I managed to finish..heh heh..so much for the illustration workshop!

AIRAVAT

There was once an elephant in the sky

Now he reached there, because he could fly!

He was dazzling and white like a cloud

And was talked about by all in voices loud

When floating above the mountains tall

He would rise and rise but never fall

Earthlings obviously wondered where he went

“We must know!” they were oh-so hell bent

So the next day gathered all the village clan

They tickled their brains for the want of a plan

They finally found one that seemed just right

It was simple and yet very clever and bright

The same night they all hid behind a big bush

One sneezed and everyone whispered “shoosh!”

They waited patiently for Airavat to descend

And then some more for him to ascend

And when our big guy began to rise

The bush-men decided to shed their disguise

Right into the centre jumped a male

Who deftly grabbed Airavat’s dangling tail

Another guy came in and caught his foot

Following en suit was a woman in jute

One by one volunteered forth friends and foes

They all caught onto each others smelly toes

Like a kite-string they all were lifted into the air

Not even one waited back to stand and stare

The air was full of women squeals

Irritated men sent up ‘shut-up!’ appeals

Higher towards the heavens they soared

Clouds grew darker and lightning roared

Several hours of flying without a bite

And destination X was nowhere in sight

Our weary folks thought they were almost dead

When the topmost guy suddenly pepped up and said,

“We’re there! We’re there! I see it, I really do!

The heavens are more magnificent than what we ever knew

Glittering diamonds spring on the trees

They fill up pods instead of peas!”

Now the bottommost woman was a diamond freak

And my, she just couldn’t wait to take a peek!

“The grass in meadows stands five feet tall

A pumpkin is as big as twenty footballs!”

On hearing that, a farmer somewhere in between,

Simply couldn’t wait to lay his eyes on the blessed scene!

Soon everyone was excited as hell

Glassy-eyed as if entranced by a spell

“How fantastic do the gods look?

Are any of them writing a fortune book?”

Still far under and unable to get a view

Curious questions the dangling villagers threw

“Do people in the heavens really never die?

Are there princesses in the sky?”

Our man on the tail answered all he could,

“Indeed there are princesses, and boy, they look so good!”

“And are there enough for all of us?”

“Yes, yes, sooooo many, they’d fill a bus”

(And to prove this his arms he swayed,

As they flew wide apart he figured the mistake he’d made)

All of them people came gushing down

They tumbled back into their very own town

So many of them fell at once into the mud

In the skies Airavat heard a mighty huge thud

Frightened, he snuggled into his cozy berth

And decided never again to come back to Earth

Our fallen folks never saw him again

No way to visit heaven now, oh what a pain!

Around the peepal tree they all sat

And sadly confessed, “Curiosity killed the Cat!”

“Only if we’d waited a little while

We’d have been in heaven, the entire pile!”

The town folk realised they had erred

And unanimously the lot declared,

“Patience is a virtue that’ll make all well,

There are some tales that only time can tell!”

bllleaaagh

2009-10-15T22:03:00.001+05:30

11th September, 4 pm, Ani Lab

2009-09-11T14:33:00.001+05:30

his name sounds nothing more than..well...a sound. "eipe!" not much of it comes out from him either. but this man sure is all the adjectives beginning with an E in the dictionary, excellent ones only. eccentric, emphatic, exciting, extraordinary, electric, educated (his own suggestion) were a few that went on the series of posters i did for what i knew was going to be a super-awesome-and-very-cool presentation. and about the rest, you can only be curious!

ps: eipe in these posters is a version of his own scary mary character for mtv. if you haven't seen it yet, goooooooooooo finnnnnnnd a caaaaaaaapy!

wefinshedourfilmwefinishedourfilllllluuuummmm! finally finally! we finished our filllluuummm!

2009-09-03T00:34:00.025+05:30

:D :D :D The word 'today' has never sounded better! Yo dhickchickdhackchickdhickchickdhackchick!

PDINGPDOONG, a Claymation film of duration 3:25 minutes, saw it's first official screening in the Auditorium of the National Institute of Design on the 27th of August 2009.

So i'm sounding like this history textbook from school, but not without good reason! Taking into account all the hazaar horrid circumstances that gureilla warfared with us, i personally consider the ending of this film nothing short of an historical event! I'm glad it's over :) People seem to like it, and it helps to know that. I realised how big a part of a film the audience is. Sure we give a lot of importance to the typical aspects of a film like the shoot, the edit, sound etc etc...but we forget to acknowledge the audience.
No audience, no film. ( I think.)
(Boy, i hate making these heavy statements outside of my diary..they call for responsibility...big word...Gulp!)
Anyway, i'm gonna rant on a lewttal more. Pdingpdoong is the first proper film we made, and starting a film from a seemingly insignificant floating around idealet to taking it to it's ready-to-be-showed-off-to-the-world stage is an extremely enriching experience. You're constantly bombarded with enlightments as also nasty disillusions. It involves tackling oh-so-many things all at once, materials, time, dates, people..(baths..) to name v. few. You make friends, you lose some. You develop fresh perspectives, you shed some. You pick and drop just so many things along the way. It's so much learning that you can't help but feel all grown up at the end of it! I've got to say, this film has been my favourite project so far!

It was totally the Rock Star of my life for the past nine months :)

2009-09-03T00:08:00.009+05:30

Kc, too was doing his training with me at Vaibhav's this summer. Above is a character treatement we tried for Nickita, who copies her homework from Unnickuttan, who has a big time crush on the hot exchange student, Nickole, who mostly chooses to chill with Kanicka, who hates having a bench next to Manickchand ,who is always upto playing some prank or the other with his buddies, Anicket and Nickhil, who along with all others are 9th standard students of the reputed Shri Vidya Nicketan High School.

2009-09-03T00:01:00.004+05:30

Rama miss again, but this time in her clay avatar. Except for her piggy nose, i like the way this ol' girl turned out! And if you've seen the animatic in the post below this, you'll know why we decided to give her the neck band!

:P

2009-09-02T23:58:00.003+05:30

Rama miss takes attendance

11th August, 6:15, Audi.

2009-08-11T05:32:00.005+05:30

is a claymation film by Anuj, Avinash, Dhruva, Jaikar and Swaroop. Touching story. I totally recommend a see!

2009-06-23T14:31:00.006+05:30

Meet Nick Amma, our nimble Ayah who is constantly wrung out her senses by all her Nick wards. To handle the notorious bunch, she's GOT to be a Suuuparhero! She's GOT to be able to fly! And be very cool, and aaal that! Nickamma tries hard...poor dear.

2009-06-22T18:43:00.004+05:30

2009-06-05T11:30:00.004+05:30

2009-05-11T07:55:00.005+05:30

I'm starting my internship today! yay! Working at Vaibhav's Studio on a project for Nickelodeon. I'm pretty excited! How hard can it get? In the end, everything just goes splat! :D

one of those moments you'd want to tuck away for always :)

2009-05-07T00:33:00.006+05:30

You can't say you know me without knowing my relentless quest of adopting random brothers, yeah, all those rather embarassing unyielding attempts. Those sticky situations. Those illicit expectations. Those unhealthy feelings. Yuck. I'm getting sentimental in an unasked for a way. I feel like a joke to myself. And then this little boy in the picture who comes along this morning, catches me messing around with frets and strings of an unfinished yesterday. So he comes up quietly, picks up my fingers with his tiny ones and places them all on the right places, instructs with much sincerity and lets the music unfurl. Manav is my first cousin, and the closest i have to a brother. He's always called me Manninee and i've called him so many things. I'm so glad to be spending two months around him in Bombay. I'm so glad i'm old enough to watch him grow from small to big. I'm so glad at the thought that someday he'll be taller than me. I'm so glad he's managed to knock into my head to stop looking anymore. I'm so much in love with this little monkey. I'm spilling sentiments all over my blog and for once i don't care! .....sniff.

2009-05-05T21:52:00.002+05:30

i miss somebody so bad. i dont know know who. just somebody. somebody listening?

of distraught; with bass score from tire swing from that juno movie

2009-05-05T13:01:00.005+05:30

as he grinned and chuckled in deliberate sneer

she did a weak smile and cried a silent tear

as he wrapped his things and walked away

she thought oh well maybe another day

as he slept and snored on his bed

she lay awake by her phone instead

as he clicked-clacked the keys on the keyboard

she sat there helpless as her loathing soared

and as he spun tales of deep and dark with much ado

our little heroine in the corner let go of an illusion or two

Bah! Bah! Black Sheep?

2009-05-05T09:40:00.005+05:30

Last night was Shivani and Manasi's Girls Night Out at Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion. Now this Event deserves note due to it's Exteremly Rare Occurence in Manasi's life. Manasi, who hasn't been a recipient to a ChickFlick since What A Girl Wants in 9th grade [on her ex-boyfriend-amanada-bynes-fan recommendation i.e. (roll your eyes, oh cuh'mon!)], was Awed. Spluttering, Gaping, she let her Mind stagger through The Movie. Shocked, Stunned and Bowled over, she promises to let the ChickFlicker in her out through Endeavours like this.................once in a Hailey's Comet.

Bah!

Ps: Thanks for the fun time Shivani, for NOBODY else would i put pink on my blog! ;)

Meet Cake and Colour

2009-05-02T17:41:00.004+05:30

2009-04-30T11:58:00.003+05:30

d taught me some bass last night. i had so much fun :)

ps: for all you fact freaks, I do know the guitar doesn't look as butterflyie and neither is it held this way. i just liked something about the way this doodle came out, and so it's here!

wheels

2009-04-28T19:04:00.004+05:30

There isn't much to compare with the thrill i get from zooming past places, on wheels that are just about as comfortable as if they are an outgrowth from my feet. Seriously...they are so real that for that brief period of time i can happily delve in the fantasy of me being some sorta mutant, with cooler foot mechnism than anybody else around! i sweat, i pain, i tire, but i don't wanna stop. and when i do, there's this weird conflict where everybit of my body, knees and above wants to move faster than the feet can manage. so there's this wobbly suspended-in-air feeling that takes over. you probably know what i mean if you've given rollerblading a go. wheels in general work well with me. i've always loved cycling and now this too. my first driving lesson happens this friday from a local relative i really enjoy spending time with. yay! but really, my ultimate ultimate goal would be able to ride bikes really well. every bike ride i've been taken for has left me screaming for more and i'm sure riding it myself would shoot up the feeling, five times over! there are really very few things i'd like to achive real real bad in life and this is of them. i cross my fingers to this ambition not fizzing away as time does.

IF: Impossibility

2009-04-23T15:48:00.002+05:30

2009-04-22T09:27:00.003+05:30

2009-04-20T01:06:00.002+05:30

flower power became such a big deal coz the words rhyme, me thinks.

Talisman. I want. I waaaaaaaant! I need! I neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed!

2009-04-10T20:02:00.009+05:30

squak!

2009-04-09T16:40:00.004+05:30

A friend working on a campaign for a comic book festival needed a parrot for the identity.

Here are some quick sketches i did for her. Had funn! :)

2009-03-28T14:49:00.008+05:30

Let's travel to the land,
Of the singing-dancing people,
Mirthless moments of dull be gone,
We must infact hoot and howl,
Yell, yodel, scream and shout,
To celebrate the coming of the wind,
That'll take us to them lot,
Them, the singing-dancing people,
Who wait with bated breaths and yet open arms,
To tap in synch with the chanting of the the enchanting sort.

2009-03-22T17:02:00.011+05:30

basicanimation.avi

2009-03-16T12:24:00.000+05:30

A compilation of some of my very first attempts at motion,

doubletrouble.avi

2009-03-16T12:03:00.000+05:30

A larger than life situation, loosely based on my roomate Oinky, and me.
Done as a part of a Visual Scripting course, the animatic reveals a confusion that leaves one girl after another locked in her own room, reason unknown.

dingarydingary.avi

2009-03-16T12:02:00.001+05:30

My very first VC promo! As animation freshers, Kc and me were rather unsettled with illustration as our first course. We wanted to move things already, and Monsoon Fiesta was just the right excuse! Here's the outcome of bugging so many seniors with so many questions on how to switch on the light box to what is premier pro? :P

VC was white and the others were orange and yellow.

eethelps.avi

2009-03-16T12:01:00.000+05:30

VC promo, 08. I didn't make this one! Just acted in it..Anish, Punia and some others were on a promo marathon and here's what everyone came up with after half an hour of a really goofy shoot!

snip.avi

2009-03-16T11:26:00.000+05:30

For this sound assignment, we were given a jazz number and in about twenty frames had to narrate a story that would match the music. Mine's about a self-respecting and adamant barber.

feetofsong.avi

2009-03-16T10:30:00.000+05:30

A sound synch assignment on a piece of footage from the Feet of Song. I really went bonkers with this one...watch at your own risk!

speedyborua.avi

2009-03-16T10:24:00.000+05:30

Here's a sound design exercise in dubbing done by Arnab, Nimi and me. Speedy Gonsalves converts to Speedy Borua as the trio in the show amble and ramble on in Assamese.

2009-03-15T13:52:00.002+05:30

i have a resume type thing!
i swear i never thought i'd have one of these!

Illustration

2009-02-28T18:46:00.007+05:30

2009-02-28T13:54:00.002+05:30

what an appropriate find in an old old doodlebook..just when i was missing ma..feeling guilty about the countless times i hang up on her bright enthusiastic calls saying i'm at work and shall call later, and invariably dont end up doin that. i'm such a rogue of a daughter at most times, and you know, it's worse when you're aware of the fact! i hope some day i can make up for it all.

i love my ma. i really really do.

2009-02-09T21:10:00.003+05:30

if i could be any one of them, i'd choose the eighth from the right!

Pale

2009-01-22T08:28:00.000+05:30

Her nasty tale,
A big secret no one knows,
Will someday make her blood rush down to her toes.
As predicted,
It does its rounds where it’s not supposed to go,
Binds itself there like a lump of fresh dough,
The inevitable has been done,
Tales of the tale have already been severally spun,
Her blood has rushed down to her toes,
On knowing that now everyone knows,
She’s left astounded and very pale,
At the thought that now everyone knows her nasty tale.

wiser; by three inches of hair

2009-01-22T07:54:00.010+05:30

we four are making a claymation!

we are working mostly with these two bacchas. they accidentally got named Darlie and Koshy. now we can't make that official of course!

we have even thrown in clay versions of ourselves into the film. it's been going on so long, that everybody's hair looks much longer now than it did on the first day of production!

DNA

2008-12-11T09:52:00.002+05:30

so this other day while machines are doing our laundry, we play taboo
Me: A bio thing!
Kc: (raises eyebrows)
Me: A newsaper name! A bio thing name for a relatively new newspaper!
Kc: Amoeba.

Balloon, another one

2008-12-04T19:06:00.004+05:30

give a kid a balloon, and what does he do with it? he plays.
give a grown-up a balloon, what does she do with it? she...

Balloon

2008-12-04T19:00:00.013+05:30

"hey look ma! the guy there is making doggie balloons! can we have one?"
and one balloon got these two people. the amused balloon seller even went an extra mile to customise the balloon for these conjoined cephalopagus'. but when he put the two doggie heads facing different directions, little did he know...he had unwittingly stumbled upon a dark dark truth...

it's my first time on Illustration Friday ! being the doing-the-quick-doodle-and-getting-away-with-it person, i found it scary to put down one particular perfect image. it was like a commission or something! i did have to step up lots to graduate to the above image.

before that,

this happened, but the zebra didn't look like a balloon!

and before that,

happened this idea doodle!

then there was this other take,

an ode to the inseparables.

for the abagails and brittanys of the world!

having totally disobeyed illustration friday's instruction of not more than one image (psst...the next post has yet another one :P), i shall now shut up.

ps: this illustration marathon fetched me news on some incredible realities. you might like to find out more too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjoined_twins

gmail ads

2008-11-05T00:23:00.010+05:30

i was surprised when i learnt of gmails advertising policy sometime last year. say you mention the word 'coffee' in a few mails, you'll have coffee glaring at you, buy me, no buy me! i was pretty taken in by the entire thing and surely when i exchanged a couple of emails regarding a certain chennai - sri lanka trip this summer, i didnt have to take much trouble figuring travel. the lowest rates blinked my attention away from my mails to the right and to the left, the now more attractive columns of my inbox. i found it rather smart, though creepy at the same time. well after the initial oooh factor wore out, i stopped caring much about these ad's,
until,
today.
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aiya.

Mirror Image

2008-11-02T23:46:00.003+05:30

so i'm on this beach holiday with my friend, her family and mine, and we play taboo this one evening.

Parag uncle: Women like to look into the?
Ma: Mirror
Parag uncle: Correct! And when they look into the mirror, they get?
Ma: Satisfaction!

i'm home!

2008-10-26T22:27:00.003+05:30

and i had such a nice day, almost like it took me into its arms and gave me the warmest hug ever!
digging into my big big bag of chilhood books, i came across this one, a book i just loooooooved!
i learnt my very first hindi letters and matras and all that from this and the illustrations draw me in just as much as they did before. i had a fun time with my cat too today..what an appropriate find of a book! i'm sure happy to be back :) mischief and laughter with loony toys ma got me in the morning, good food, good sleep, discovering a carrom genius in pa in the evening,
so much more to look foward to...

:)

peanutsnutsntus!

2008-10-16T09:07:00.003+05:30

when i read this one the first time, i lauged and laughed and laughed and laughed.
today morning i'm sad. so thought i'd read to make me laugh and laugh and laugh.
ps: ha hah ha.

2008-10-13T09:14:00.000+05:30

2008-10-11T12:57:00.003+05:30

i'm all sick today. unbearable sore throat. sneezed for two hours continuously. runny nose with skin peeling off. missed my best friends birthday. yuck. i feel limp and terrible and ugly all over.

2008-10-07T22:30:00.005+05:30

this is my friend sudeep. he's a lot like nikhil chinappa. when i was young, i called him suddy because it rhymed with buddy. i remember how he phoo-phooed at it then, but it doesnt mean anything irksome to him anymore. so yea..suddy's this story-poetry guy, i dont understand a lot of what he writes. suddy's also this anti war guy, i dont understand anything of what he has to say about that, except that war is wrong. but it's always nice to talk to him once in a while. he manages to keep me fascinated most of the time. the other times, i pretend like i'm listening..hehe...well anyway, this sketch got born off a random doodle i did. maybe he was destined to suddenly have a cool profile picture on facebook! here's remembering all the fun terrace, barista, phonecalls, beaches, emails, homemade coffee, sholay enactments and long walk times :)

Naomi

2008-10-07T00:54:00.000+05:30

pigeons pigeons pigeons

2008-10-03T19:37:00.003+05:30

somethings happening!

2008-09-29T10:44:00.005+05:30

last semester a fun pair of girls, matilda and emily came down from RCA to do experimental animation with us. editing some music they got along with them, i attempted to synch with it x rays shot in stop motion style. tonnes of techical errors later, i came up with this compromise of a film, or whatever you'd like to call it! most of the footage refused to play which is why some godforsaken person's ribcage keeps circling again and again and again towards the end! anyway, so then we had this big screening in the audi, our first ever. i remember us feeling all important, 10 of us seated in the 'directors chairs' in the balcony, hooting for all we're worth! this screening will remain special always, next time there will be just 9.

making films is a fun thing to do..it's especially satisfying at the end, inspite of a frustrating process. i would really like to make lots of films someday :) i hope we all do!

2008-09-29T00:27:00.002+05:30

another one...

2008-09-28T22:55:00.006+05:30

i was browsing through some dusty folders when i came across these retards! hehe...had fun drawing them during elective last semester. they're kalamkari done using a wooden pen and natural dyes. i'd opt for this look and treatement over the photoshop images posted earlier anytime!

2008-09-22T02:37:00.003+05:30

a random self portrait.
i miss me.

2008-08-21T21:48:00.006+05:30

So what if i dont wanna do my scriptwriting assignments?

i dont feel particularly bright at the moment.

So what if i dont wanna draw out my storyboards immaculately?

i dont feel particularly skilled at the moment.

So what if i dont wanna finish my never ending backlog?

i dont feel particularly concerned at the moment.
So what if all i want to do is take a break?
i feel particularly heavy right now.

2008-07-04T19:40:00.003+05:30

2008-07-04T19:38:00.004+05:30

2008-07-04T19:37:00.000+05:30

2008-07-04T19:36:00.001+05:30

2008-07-04T19:35:00.001+05:30

all but them..

2008-07-04T19:32:00.001+05:30

2008-07-04T19:30:00.001+05:30

2008-05-15T03:00:00.001+05:30

scared.

2008-05-15T01:47:00.003+05:30

2008-05-07T06:40:00.005+05:30

bobo, fat me, identical hairdos, january07, smiles

2008-05-07T06:34:00.005+05:30

4am, 90%, bobo, ddc, education, guesthouse

"kya khaya ke baccho ne kela khaya?"

2008-05-07T06:11:00.010+05:30

bananas, bobo, ddc, foundation.

"happy birthday dear dhaumya!"

2008-05-07T04:59:00.004+05:30

blissful unawareness couldnt be better portrayed.

unaware we clapped in celebration,

unaware he was trapped in this solarized picture.

2008-05-07T02:08:00.005+05:30

i want to do bumping cars in the animation lab all over again.
and all of us to be happy in the exact same way.
every smile should be there,
especially the one that started it.

2008-05-06T18:20:00.002+05:30

a frame from a comicbook i'm doing...

ps: i have a new purple cell phone!

real cats do not possess eyebrows.

2008-05-05T19:39:00.014+05:30

little over a year ago, arjun singh performed a surprisingly thoughtful deed. he had this tee with some malaysian cats all over it, which i obviously adored! then one fine day he donates it to me.

i really like such surprise things come my way... :)

i am wearing the tee today and suddenly noticed how all the cats wear this really dumbstruck expression..hehe..couldnt stop laughing! and to add to it, they're all smiling. did you know that real cats dont smile? nor do any other animals as for that matter!! (this is like my childhood realisation#27 : the fan doesnt give air, it just stirs it up!) hehe, i'm in a supewilly silly mood! but really..i can remember so many happy times with my cats that i could swear by anything that they did really smile along!

animals really are wonderful people...