landscape time - Creek

A digital painting I did on a bus ride to Mumbai. Inspired by the view near Vashi creek. Took about 30 mins. Medium: finger on iPod touch.

Now some Gesture drawings

Last weekend I was at a hospital and was waiting for sometime in the atrium of the building. I had a lot of time to kill. The building had a lot of different people - each one very much different than other. It was great to observe them. I wished I had a sketchpad and a pencil/pen. Luckily I had the iPod with the newly discovered (for me) Sketchbook App ! I went crazy drawing people around.
All of them are quick sketches, taking roughly 1 minute each.

Will be doing more of these and more often I hope :)

Drawing the iPod way

I recently bought an iPod Touch and one of the first things I was looking forward to was the "Sketchbook Mobile App". I had read about it on some blogs and seen amazing artwork created on it.

How Awesome it is to have a big bunch of tools to draw and paint in your pocket ! The Batman is my first attempt at doing a full painting on it. I am surprised at how well it turned out to be. Woody is a quick drawing I did today. I am totally hooked to it !

AM graduation & Student Choice Awards !

Woot! :) I am now officially an Animation Mentor graduate, the graduation ceremony took place in San Francisco in January. I could not make it to the ceremony because of crunch at work, but thanks to AM - I could watch it live through a webcast. It was one awesome day (night here while I watched it online)!

Another thing to rejoice about - I won two Student Choice Awards !!
One for "Most Supportive Student" and the other "Most Improved Student". It was a huge shock for me. Student choice awards are student nominated and selected by the graduating class of students.

Throughout AM I have always been feeling to be lucky to have such talented and helpful people studying with me, and with this award I felt happy to have contributed back to the community in some way.

When I watch my pencil tests I did before I joined AM and the acting dialog/ short film I can see how far I have come because of the school. Without AM and the overall AM community nothing like this would have been possible. Thanks a lot to my mentors Jalil Sadool, Joe Mandia, Mike Belzer, Greg Kyle, Elliot Bour and Keith Sintay for being such a big source of motivation and inspiration alongwith all the great things they shared with us. Kudos to Shawn, Bobby, Carlos for creating and nurturing the coolest school on earth !

Thanks to my friends at AM who have always been very encouraging and supportive - I couldnt be there to meet them in person, but hoping to catch up sometime soon at another AM gathering :)

Heres a link to the post about the event in the monthly AM Newsletter http://www.animationmentor.com/newsletter/0210/feature_special.html  

C!

A Toy story

Happy New Year to all you (few) readers ! Heres a story I drew to kick start the year . . .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I had a lot of fun drawing this! Let me know how you find it ;)

NewsTime

Hello and welcome back !

Its been quite some time since I've updated things here. There are a lot of interesting things that happened with me in last two months. So here are the top News Stories at this hour.

got my first gig !

Exciting times! I finished studies at AnimationMentor in September and then within a month's time got hired at Prana Studios in Mumbai as a Character Animator. It is super exciting to get a chance to work at one of the best studios in the country as my first gig. I am here to work on a really good project and am excited to work on it everyday. This place has a lot of good talent and I am always learning new things from them.
Prana has previously worked on Disney's Tinkerbell and Tinkerbell - Land of Lost Treasure. If you haven't watched them yet, definitely check them out. Both the films are really beautiful !

Moving to Mumbai from Pune was a big thing for me. Pune has a much cooler and dry climate and is less than half as crowded as Mumbai is. Now that I've been there for two months, am getting used to it now.


my short-film got nominated !!

Another News. My animated short film "Phone Interview" got nominated for 24Fps Awards. In the end it dint win, still it was a great feeling to see it being nominated. I know there are a lot of ways I could have made the story more interesting, but then I am happy for it being my first personal film.


conducted a Disney drawing workshop !!!

This month I got a chance to conduct a cartoon drawing workshop for Disney at Landmark bookstore in my home town Pune. The event was a part of Disney's ToyFest to celebrate the holidays. It was a great experience being among kids and teaching them to draw Mickey Mouse. There were about 15-20 kids around 6 to 12 years of age and they did a splendid job ! It was an hour of pure joy. Some kids needed more attention than others and often kept calling me to check out how it was coming. It was a lot of fun teaching them how to draw using simple shapes and to see them do great at it. At the end of the hour long session there were prizes to be given to the three best entries and some gifts for all the participating kids. I remembered my days as a kid who loved to draw. I wish I get another chance to conduct such a workshop again.

Thats all news for now, Next time you are here there should be something more interesting (hopefully ;)). See you soon, same browser, same Blog !

- C.

delicious 3D !

I recently watched 'UP' and 'Cloudy with a chance of meatballs' in 3D. Its such an different experience. Watching UP (Brilliant film btw) in 3D was like watching the characters as if they were actors on stage right in front. Its much more than just a fancy new thing. Cloudy was great too, experiencing a food rain is one of the best thing that could ever happen (expect for the storm like in the end ;) )

The dark 3D glasses defintely make the audience look like a bunch of dorks, but who cares, all eyes are glued to the screen :) Here is a drawing I did just for fun.