I did this picture for an adorable little poem titled "Chand ka Kurta" by Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar'
The moon asks his mother to stitch him a kurta because he feels really cold doing his rounds in the winter. His mother wonders what design she might employ, seeing as her son never stays quite the same shape and size as he goes through his cycles of waxing and waning.
When the enemy invaded Hatim Tai's kingdom, his soldiers were willing to lay down their lives for their noble king, but Hatim would not agree to that. He simply fled, giving up his palace and wealth to the enemy without a fight, and thus prevented him from seizing everything from the proletariat.
This is an event conducted by Scholastic India every year to encourage reading amongst children. This year's pledge was written by Gulzar, and I designed and painted the poster.
One of a series of illustrations I did for Ruskin Bond's new book "Mr. Oliver's Diary", being published by Penguin. This image got rejected, so I guess it's okay if I upload it.
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The book comes out in Feb, I really enjoyed reading it. I do think Ruskin Bond is still one of the best!! I'm hoping I'll get to meet him...
And here's the beloved claymation I did with some of my best friends in my third year at NID!
It was probably one of the most fun courses I will ever remember, and often when I meet up with Garima we recall all the adventures we had, like old grannies missing the glorious days of their youth.
hehe.
I can't claim to have played much of a role in the generation of the story, but I was deeply involved with the animation, set building, and editing.
So here's to the 4 of us...Garima, Sanjay, Arnab, and me!
This film started as a montage editing assignment that I patched together using footage shot previously.
A group of friends who had taken the editing course before my batch had travelled over the city of Ahmedabad and recorded a lot of scenes they found interesting over the period of a day.
The assignment given to us was to build a montage around any theme that caught our fancy, as long as we were able to communicate it.
I wanted to see if I could try and find a happy film hidden in these captured moments. As I watched the hours and hours of footage, I began to notice a way toward a theme that was beginning to seem increasingly exciting to me..
And as I cut certain shots and juxtaposed them with others, I burst into laughter at the effect that was being generated. It was actually working!
I worked for the next 6 or 7 days, and came up with this film! And thoroughly enjoyed the process!
This film was made using series of drawings done in real space and from real people.The drawings were then run together to generate a sense of movement. The method was brought in by Gabriele from the RCA, and as her students we spread out over campus with our inks and brushes. I wasn't oficially a part of the course but could not resist participating. :)
Perhaps some of the landmarks of the NID campus will be distinguishable here!
This is a really fun and exciting exercise for those interested in animation and kinetics.
These images happened while I was fooling around with inks, water, and a 50 MM SLR. I did not have a tripod, and so I'd kept the bowl in bright sunlight, so that I needn't slow the shutter down terribly in order to expose the film correctly.
The ink was moving quite rapidly, and patterns were fast appearing and disappearing.
This image here looks to me sometimes like a sad witch, and sometimes like a cursed tree.
And this here looks like an inky antelope vying for a strange magical bunch of grapes. :)
He's wearing a cap, and has quite a tail!!
Speedpainting! This is how Thor looked that season..
Peaceful, quiet, romantic.
And then our rioting screaming troupe invaded it!!
This one's dedicated to you, Mrs. Goel! And you know why the hell.
