Animation : My journey from lines to life

Fantastic Quotes

2011-07-13T05:29:00.001-05:00

"Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and anallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand ways" – Oscar Wilde "Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not" – Ralph Waldo Emerson My wife shared these quotes with me today, which I find profound.

ASketch Doodle

2011-06-13T05:41:00.000-05:00

I saw a drawing from Jake Parker's Inktober digital edition book and loved it. So I thought I would recreate it. Check out his book here: http://agent44.com/blog2/?cat=12 Check out his other artwork too, great stuff. Inspiring artist!

ASketch Doodle

2011-06-12T19:22:00.000-05:00

ASketch is a procedural sketching app that generates some shading based on interaction between current and previous sketch lines. You can see such effect in this drawing and the previous one I posted. I am really liking this app for doing pencil like sketches.

ASketch Doodle

2011-06-12T19:20:00.002-05:00

I have started sketching again after a long time. And it feels really good. Thanks to my lovely and kind wife for a great gift(ipad) and inspiring me to post :)

Storyboard: Inventing a Place

2011-06-07T15:41:00.001-05:00

Here are a couple of drawings that I did as part of my story-boarding class during Spring'07 at SCAD. We had to come up with a rough story concept and design an imaginary place for that idea. It is very difficult to design something without any reference at all. The best thing to do is to study references for all or some elements of the environment and add your creativity to it. References help

Amazing Animation Film: Thought of you

2011-03-08T15:57:00.002-05:00

I became speechless after watching just the first few seconds of the film. And absolutely gorgeous drawings in every single frame. Watch it in HD! Thought of You from Ryan J Woodward on Vimeo.

Message from Remote Planet?

2011-02-05T11:05:00.002-05:00

Still alive and blogging, just not on this blog. After I finished my studies I moved to Norway and I have been busy with my job and other projects on side. Unfortunately not much related with the art side of animation. To which I will get back once I have reached specific milestones for my current projects. If you want to check what I am upto you can check my other blogs. Rigging Programming

Pose to Pose Again and More

2009-07-28T23:00:00.006-05:00

I am back to animating and so far I am learning what my shortcomings are and what should I do to improve myself. It is a great feeling when you know what the problem is and what could be the solution.The biggest problem in my animations is that they look very pose to pose. The solution to this is simple! Add overlapping and not have all body parts reach the key pose at the same time. I understand

Finally, my own website!

2009-06-25T00:44:00.004-05:00

I feel very excited to have my own website. I am still in the process of updating the pages with more detail and better layout. But mainly I have my demo reel up!I want to say thank you to my lovely wife :)http://maulik13.com

I am back, with notes

2009-06-25T00:37:00.005-05:00

I am posting few links and notes (mainly for myself) as I begin animating again. Wohoo!"Pretty movement vs good acting"LINK"Cut the fat from your shot, don't give too much to digest to your audience. Make action and acting clear to get the emotion and story point across."(from author's comment at LINK)I generally end up putting extra fat to the acting. While I am animating I suddenly think oh man

What makes animation look pose to pose?

2009-03-11T04:28:00.003-05:00

There are times when I get a comment like your animation looks pose to pose or it is easy to spot that animation is just going from one key pose to another key pose. I understand what the comment means, but sometimes I don't know how to solve it. While animating today I realized that if I break down animation into different body parts and loosen up the body (not too much or it will look funky) I

Puppet Animation, great act

2009-02-11T03:33:00.006-05:00

This is absolutely Amazing! Best puppet acting I have ever seen. Even though it's just a stick man with one leg and no face, you know what he is doing or feeling.

Latest Render of old character.

2009-02-03T01:45:00.005-05:00

Just playing with built-in Mental Ray material for sub surface scattering (sss) effect. SSS looks cool.

My first businesscard! I am excited

2009-02-03T00:35:00.007-05:00

Front and back vertical format.The gear system represents the technical aspects of rigging. However, rigging also requires an eye for aesthetic or art so I have those gears made from faces (And they will actually work in practical if put together properly). So the gear system made from faces is my logo. And it will be driving an Inverse kinematics chain pulling head on the other side. IK is

One month :)

2009-01-13T22:52:00.005-05:00

On 13th Dec. 2008 I got married to a beautiful and a sweet girl, Ami. And today is exactly one month of our married life. Even if we got married a month ago it feels like we have been married for longer than that. That is probably because we enjoyed every little things together. It's more than 2 years since I left for my studies and today as husband and wife we stand together stronger than ever;

Comic Art

2008-10-09T19:42:00.005-05:00

Here are two drawings I did in a sequential art class (Sequential art is about comics) in Fall 2007. I learned a lot about perspective, drawings humans for comics and creating environments. It was really a cool experience. Drawings for comics is so much fun and demanding of course.The first one, everything is from imagination.The second, the location is from a place near river street in Savannah,

Color Theory

2008-09-12T23:29:00.005-05:00

First work is done with Acrylic Gouache and this how it was done. First we had to find a piece of cloth with some pattern. Then trace the design on 11x11" square of bristol board. And take a small square of the same cloth glue it to the traced design where it belongs. And then expand the design by matching the cloth colors and painting the remaining design (If you see a little closely and you

Kids: Drawing & Imagination

2008-09-02T00:32:00.006-05:00

This is an excerpt from Mark Kennedy's post on his blog:"if I remember correctly, it said that most kids stop drawing around age seven because that's the age when teachers and parents start to tell kids "you're drawing that cat wrong, cats don't have seven legs" and so drawing stops being fun and starts being a chore, which makes kids give it up completely. And why not give it up? Schools and

Old work: Design

2008-08-31T20:16:00.005-05:00

Ink on Smooth Bristol (2007)Acrylic Gouache on Smooth Bristol (2007)

Old work: Drawings

2008-08-31T19:34:00.009-05:00

Some of the frames from movie "The Hero". Really liked the cinematography in this movie.If you haven't seen me then you will need the drawing on top right corner to identify me.A storyboard frame for my idea about houses on tree trunk. I had a lot of ideas about this but could not flesh them out properly in time. For example I was thinking that the top is the main floor of the house so to go up

Power of storytelling and sand animation

2008-08-26T04:53:00.009-05:00

I like sand animation because it has a spontaneous feel to it and also because it's a play with light and shadow. So the medium itself is quite intriguing. But if a strong storytelling is combined with this medium it can create a deep effect. Here is one story after watching which I felt story impact strongly. I think it has a graphical novel kind of feel but still a lot different because of the

Critiquing own animation?

2008-08-20T21:05:00.004-05:00

I am taking 3D character animation class and I am learning a very important part of the process, which is critiques. And more important part I think is to critique our own work. While animating we look at the same work again and again for a long time and this creates a pitfall where you either cannot see your mistakes or you stop liking it as much as you liked when you had started. That's what

A beautiful short: Leo's Song

2008-07-24T02:00:00.008-05:00

Power of storytelling! This reminds us again that we really don't need fancy animation or highly complex rendering to tell the story.

Story of a little crane

2008-06-25T17:21:00.006-05:00

From all animation work I have done, this one I like the most.

You've Got a Friend

2008-06-03T17:07:00.004-05:00

McFly - You've Got A Friend I dont have words. Thanks to my Sweetie for sending this. Thanks to McFly for making this.

Digital Puppetry Possibilities

2008-05-21T07:23:00.005-05:00

Last quarter I did a research paper on making 3D animation more intuitive. One of the ideas I represented was related to 3D input devices replacing mouse with more efficient device(s). While researching I had found a project which was about creating a 3D mouse from traditional mouse mechanism. Here is the link to it. Neil Fraser: Hardware 3D mouse. I found this inspiring. It led me thinking into

An error in the Perfectionist's work?

2008-05-12T21:57:00.006-05:00

I love ratatouille so much that I keep watching its 9 minute trailer over and over. I love scrubbing through every single frame to see the animation and learn from it. And I have watched this many many times, but today suddenly I found an error! When the hand accidentally grabs Ramy, fingers intersect the geometry of the mouse and it is quite noticeable. I am not sure if they corrected this in

The Animals Save the Planet

2008-05-12T21:50:00.005-05:00

Ardaman has done it again. Clearly it's one of the studios whose all animations I love. Click the image to go the website to enjoy the magic of Ardaman.

Invaluable Notes: Randy Pausch's Lecture

2008-05-09T19:25:00.006-05:00

Notes from Randy Pausch's Lecture, Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams (link)"wait long enough and people will surprise and impress you. When you are pissed off at somebody and you are angry at them, you just haven't given them enough time. Give them a little more time and they will almost always impress you."How many times we respond instantly within ourselves to other people's behavior. We

Irony

2008-05-04T00:46:00.014-05:00

One of my best friends called today and It was a great joy to talk to him after a long time. We always talk about life and goals and how can we get there. I wish I could write so many things from the conversation (I will as I organize them in words :) After posting Invaluable Notes I just remembered what my friend had said to me. It is irony that I listened to the same thing in our talk and also

Invaluable Notes

2008-05-03T23:44:00.007-05:00

This comes from the panel discussion "Pixar - A Human Story of Computer Animation" (link).This was mentioned when somebody asked a question to Brad Bird and Andrew Stanton about story development process.Following is a part of an example Brad Bird was giving to explain the story process. I am putting that simply in two lines, the essence.Artist: "I just don't know what to do!"Director: "Well

Second Walk Cycle

2008-05-03T02:36:00.006-05:00

He is happy, so am I :) I loved animating this. And I love this character too. Thanks to Ramtin Ahmadi! Link to the rigYou might be wondering where is the first walk cycle. Well it's ont that I dont want to post it because it's bad. It's just that I missed the time to post it. (silly reason I know)

Cars

2008-04-10T01:51:00.005-05:00

So much fun!!! There are lots of things that can be done with this assignment.Here is what we had to do for each car:1. stops screeching2. runs out of gas3. jumping4. collides with the wall

3D Bouncing Ball

2008-04-09T21:07:00.002-05:00

It's totally fun!!!

Simplicity Example: POCOYO

2008-02-24T20:19:00.003-05:00

If you haven't already checked this, you should do it now.http://www.pocoyo.com/You can watch a lot of videos on youtube. Here is one.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjkBxBkXJwwYou really don't need complex characters to create compelling animation. Be simple, do more.

First Character Animation

2008-02-11T15:14:00.002-05:00

This was an assignment for my Animation-I class. We had to start from one attitude and go to second attitude in 4 seconds. I went for curious to shocked/scared. I worked on it for continuously two nights without much sleep, so I fell sick after working on this assignment. I redid a lot of drawings to get better and conveying poses and to get timing right. I learned a lot of things in this

2D Flag Animation

2008-02-10T17:30:00.000-05:00

I kind of enjoyed the assignment, but I did not do well. The middle part is kind of boring with the same size waves in the flag. That takes away the believability of the material. But anyway here it is.

New 3D character (Almost there)

2008-02-10T17:23:00.000-05:00

We are creating a 3d character in one of the animation classes. The same character we are going to rig and animate in the end. I dragged the modeling part a lot to make it as good as possible within given time. But I am happy with what I have so far. I wish I could do better with his hair. But never mind considering the time we have. I still have to texture his short.

Invaluable Notes

2008-01-30T15:37:00.000-05:00

This comes from a guy who has been in Animation industry for quite a long time and writes regularly about storyboarding, film making and art on his Blog. One of the greatest resource for knowledge. Here is one of the most important note I read on his Blog. Oh his name is Mark Kennedy.This is so true!"Simplicity is a wonderful thing and I believe simplicity lies at the heart of making something

Invaluable Notes

2008-01-30T15:29:00.000-05:00

I have decided to post some thoughts and notes I read/hear which I feel are invaluable and will help me improve myself a lot. Hopefully it will also help other people.I was watching Ratatouille bonus features. There was an interview with an American chef Thomas Keller. Following is a paraphrase of what he said in one of the scenes."It is not about the perfection, it is about the quest for

Character Design for a Project

2008-01-20T02:25:00.001-05:00

For the 3d-character setup project we had to design a character for following projects. This is what I came up with. I had some other designs too and it was confusing. But finally I decided to go with this. I may model and rig other characters later on. The hair in the side view is not drawn well, I had a hard time visualizing it. I am currently working on modeling of this character. I will post

Back to Cooking

2008-01-20T02:16:00.001-05:00

After I watched Ratatouille, I got my spirit for cooking back. I was thinking to make "bhaji" (an Indian dish with mashed veggies) for some time. So finally just yesterday I cooked it. It might not be the tasty one you find in famous food places in India, but it was tasty for me :)

First Animatic

2008-01-11T12:43:00.001-05:00

This is an animatic I made for my Motion Studies class at SCAD. We were given different scenarios in the story and we had to create an animatic for that story. This did not come out as good as I had wished. Especially in the beginning size of the character is changing weirdly. And the end is almost abrupt. I could have added more details in the end. Rendering is not good in some frames too. But

Ratatouille

2008-01-06T13:53:00.000-05:00

I wanted to watch this movie on DVD since I missed it in the theaters. Fortunately our college organized the show for this movie in the college's theater yesterday. So I could watch this movie in theater. I was expecting high quality visuals and a quality story from this movie. And I was not disappointed. From the first scene of the movie I was so impressed by the feel of the visuals and the

Height of laziness

2007-12-25T13:19:00.000-05:00

I feel very sorry for not posting in one of the longest breaks. I have the lamest excuse to give, I was lazy. But I should tell that there was more to it. I did not feel motivated enough. After doing a very bad performance in last quarter (I got B in all 3 courses), I figured out that I have lost my focus and my motivation. Human mind plays tricks all the time to get you out of focus. Mine does a

More on failure

2007-10-11T14:32:00.000-05:00

Success or FailureKumar made a very good and important point about failure.

Fear of failure

2007-09-12T18:02:00.001-05:00

Why do we afraid of failure so much? It seems that one of the greatest fear on earth is the fear of failure. My drawing professors always say that do not be afraid to make mistakes. I totally understand it why. But sometimes I just can't help it but feel that fear for a while. I know that it does not help at all and by taking failure as a milestone for success I can become better. Life is really

More drawings from sketchclub

2007-08-31T17:25:00.000-05:00

Life & Partner

2007-08-19T21:30:00.000-05:00

Life is really important and so is the partner one chooses to spend the entire life with. Life is about sharing and caring. To me life does not make sense if we do not share and care. Life partner or soul mate is the person to whom one opens up his/her heart fully. And that is when the power of sharing and caring grows more and more. That is why soul mate holds a very important place and role in

Second Master Copy

2007-08-15T09:22:00.002-05:00

This is one more master copy assignment, I don't have any details of the master artist but the work was really amazing. I am really happy with my final output in this assignment. I guess I am better with white charcoal on black paper than my skills with black on gray paper. This is actually huge, 36"x58". we did master copy on this big size to study all the details easily. I had to stick the

Self portrait 1

2007-08-12T14:02:00.001-05:00

Not completely happy with it, but still I was happy that I could get the likeliness. I chose a little odd pose. But since this was my first time drawing from mirror, I made some silly measuring mistakes. That's why some features look skewed.

Plater Cast Rendering

2007-08-12T13:29:00.000-05:00

Third life drawing assignment, where we had to copy the plaster cast model to study head. I could not get the likeliness of the model really well, but still I enjoyed the rendering. His hair was a really painful task though. I also found that using white & black charcoal over a gray paper works really well and gives a wide range of values and possibilities for rendering.

First Drapery Study

2007-08-12T13:02:00.000-05:00

First assignment of life drawing class. And I was really intimidated initially since I had never worked on drapery before and this was the first fine rendering project of the class. Anyway I realize that if I was less afraid of failing I could have done better.

Tales from Earthsea

2007-07-21T21:42:00.000-05:00

It's a Ghibli movie, so despite getting not so good review I wanted to watch it desperately. And I finally did. Even though it could not create the same magic as the previous ghibli movies, I think the feel and style of the movie is the same. I love all the landscapes so much, and each background was like an amazing piece of art. The colors and compositions were really beautiful. I watched the

"Flight" comic book series

2007-07-10T21:09:00.000-05:00

Anybody who loves comics should read these books. They are really awesome. All the stories and characters and everything is superb. The great thing about these books is that many talented artists have put their own comic stories in each book so you can see a lot of variety in terms of style, characters and stories. Totally cool, I have got Flight 2 and 3, when I will have some extra money I

A little twist to "Pudla"

2007-07-10T20:18:00.000-05:00

When I came back home from class I was tired and was in no mood to make the full fledge meal. So I got an idea of making pudla. But I always want to experiment and push the creativity a little further. I added cilantro, 2 green chillies and some wheat flour along with chickpea (besan) flour. I like the idea of adding cilantro into the batter. And now I am planning to make thepla with finely

Some old sketchbook pages

2007-07-10T20:12:00.000-05:00

Assignment 1 (Master copy)

2007-07-10T20:05:00.000-05:00

This was my first life drawing assignment. We had to do a master copy as part of learning head drawings. I used white charcoal on black paper. This is not the latest one, in which I have increased the height of the forehead.

Naruto

2007-06-28T21:08:00.001-05:00

I was so addicted to this series that I would sleep few hours less to watch it. This is one more Ninja series with so much fun and cool fights. It revolves around main characters in the series, but mainly Naruto Uzumaki. He is the hyperactive knucklehead ninja of the hidden leaf village. At times he can be funny and sometimes annoying, he can be stupid and sometimes heroic, he can be smart in

Logic vs Creativity (Left vs Right Brain)

2007-06-28T20:07:00.000-05:00

One fundamental question that has been raised many times is can creativity be learned or practiced? Even I had this question and doubt since long time. I was worried after my first CEED result if I am creative enough or not. If I am not, I cannot move into animation or any creative field. Even today I struggle to find creative ideas, but now I understand where do they come from and I know that I

Cooking Spree

2007-06-26T19:58:00.000-05:00

I am becoming so passionate about cooking. I love it not just for the sake of eating, but it's somehow a creative process and I love anything I find to engage creatively. It's kind of a mixture of science and art. You have to know how things cook like what item boils what time or which one will cook faster, how the quantity will affect the cooking. And you have to be creative and artistic in

More character scribbles

2007-06-26T19:38:00.000-05:00

Just felt like drawing some funny faces. The second character in the top image is probably going to be one of the characters I want to use for animation.

2007-06-24T19:30:00.001-05:00

Digital scribbles

2007-06-04T13:47:00.001-05:00

I was just practicing drawing with my old tablet. I wish I could work with colors better.

Character scribbleing

2007-05-31T21:36:00.000-05:00

I just love to scribble and come up with characters from different shapes. I have improved within my spring quarter, I feel more confident now. Hopefully I will come up with more.

Spring semester is over!!!

2007-05-31T21:25:00.001-05:00

Yuhoo... After so many sleepless nights and with a low average of sleeping hours, finally this exhausting quarter is over. I really enjoyed the quarter despite all the sleepless nights. Drawing for storyboarding was simply amazing and color theory made me love every color in the palette. I will be posting my projects soon when I have them photographed.Next quarter I will be taking life drawing

Great Advice

2007-04-15T12:09:00.000-05:00

http://www.poopinmymouth.com/tutorial/money_mouth.htmThis is something all dream catchers should understand and put into action! (found it from here)

If you dream...

2007-04-08T02:16:00.000-05:00

It's not the smartest person who endures the battle and becomes a winner, but the person who stands throughout the whole journey and never gives up on his/her dreams. It's not the extra ordinary talent but the extra ordinary perseverance that takes a person to his/her dream. And one more important thing is that you have to believe in yourself. Determination and believing yourself are interwoven

October Sky (1999)

2007-04-08T01:22:00.000-05:00

This is one of those inspiring movies who can provide you with enough magic spinach to workout your brain and heart muscles. I really liked this movie and for the fact that it was based on a true story, that proves that it CAN happen. I really loved it because it's real and many situations, like most of the people opposing your idea or your passion because it's new, are faced by the hero, but he

My first charcoal still life

2007-04-01T16:34:00.000-05:00

This is the first still life I did in charcoal. It was really fun, though messy. But I love the feel of charcoal and also because they can do really dark values.

I met a guy...

2007-04-01T16:03:00.000-05:00

Being in a good college has some really good advantages. Our college arranges job fair every year bringing some of the most reputed companies and studios in the world. This time we had Blue Sky Studios, ILM, Digital Domain, Lucasarts and list goes on. I was really excited to be in the job fair, so I got ready (I used gel to keep my long hairs stick together and keep them under the ears). I knew

Books

2007-03-22T11:28:00.000-05:00

I really love books that contains artworks or picture stories. I also love comics but when I will have extra money I will buy them.Even though our library is amazing, it does not have some amazing books I need/want. I bought 2 such books from Amazon. I remember how eagerly I was waiting for them to arrive and how excited I was. Here are those books:Being a great fan of Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli,

Job in Jen Library

2007-03-22T10:51:00.000-05:00

I got an on-campus job in our college's library for a week. It's really fun, but tiring as I have also started going to gym. My all body muscles are in sweet pain. But walking around book racks and rearranging books has its own fun and benefits. I get to see all the parts in library and see what kind of books are in which racks. As our library is really huge (3 storey and long floors), it's not

Children of Heavens

2007-03-07T17:30:00.000-05:00

This film just got into my favourite movies list. Brilliantly made! I really love the story and most of all, small details and expressions even in comman activities which are captured amzingly. For example, when the other girl (whom Zahra follows) knocks her house and while waiting for door to be opened she keeps jumping. That shows how children are eager to enter the home after school. I was

Public Speaking Class: Discussion

2007-03-06T11:04:00.000-05:00

I really enjoy this class a lot. It's not just because it's fun, but also because it's really providing me a platform to meet people, know them, discuss with them many things from around the world. For all the speeches we do or exercises we do, we get to have a small session for comments/discussion. And I really appreciate that short period of time because I get to learn a lot and besides I can

Being an Artist

2007-02-15T19:02:00.000-05:00

Some people might be waiting to see an update in my blog, so pardon me for not updating this blog for a long time. Life is on a rollercoaster lately and may be this is the first time I have faced so many new things simultaneously. And for few I was not quite ready. But anyways I just wanted to pour out how I feel about my new student life and on a way to become an artist.People usually have

New Destination

2007-01-02T11:51:00.000-05:00

Many things have happen, or should I say my life has comepletely changed since I last wrote in here. In my journey of becoming an animator, I have reached to the most important goal, I have reached to US to attend animation school. I am really close to my dream now, I feel it in my belly. Though this came with some price, I know ultimately I will get things working and reach where I want to. It's

One more head drawing

2006-11-07T11:54:00.000-05:00

This is my latest portrait drwaing. I had used a reference from newspaper. Overall I am satistfied with little improvements especially hair, but nose and right eye are main area I wish to rework.

My latest gesture drawings

2006-11-06T11:04:00.000-05:00

Here are my latest gesture drawings, done in last 2 days. I have also started my sketchbook thread on CGSociety forum. So if you want see more drawings, visit the thread. I will keep updating that thread regularly. Anybody who wants to learn figure drawing should join this forum and visit the figurative art thread often.<- My sketchbook Thread ->

Dont love your drawing!

2006-11-05T01:43:00.000-05:00

I have heard this few times and I know I am suffering from this issue. Our class instructor told us yesterday that her instructor had told the same things to her class. And I realize that this is really a big issue with many beginner students and that includes me. I was a serious victim of this in past, but I have improved over it to some extent.Once we get attached to our drawing, we start

Quick head exercise 3

2006-11-05T00:22:00.000-05:00

Dont limit yourself :)I have so much to improve in drawing eyes, especially in perpective and side views. Contour is not proper and they dont really look like they are sitting in the eye socket. First image proves that clearly.

Quick head exercise 2

2006-10-27T05:26:00.000-05:00

Here are two more head drawings. This time more challenging as the views are changed. It was really a good excercise, I felt my weaknesses and I can see all the small and big mistakes I have made. But again no eraser :) and that's my primary goal right now. I am trying hard not to think of it, but still it caught my mind during shading of nose in first image.I see a lot of mistakes (esp. in eyes)

Quick head exercise

2006-10-25T14:28:00.000-05:00

Here is the quick exercise I did in order to practice drawing without eraser. Was pretty fun, but at one stage I got attached with drawing and wanted to erase :) But I won this time, NO eraser! Also one more point I wanted to understand was making dark lines carefully and in right place so I only do where I need them (not all over the place). I think I didn't do much good in that. Also I tried to

Girl : surprise smile

2006-10-25T07:14:00.000-05:00

Here is one more portrait drawing (from reference) . This time I was doing good, but I still messed up eyes and hair. Also i haven't done shading properly on the nose and some other area. But I had played long with it and there was no meaning of erasing things and editing. I think either I will do this all over again or will do new one.The characteristic that I liked in the reference was the

Girl Portrait

2006-10-22T16:37:00.000-05:00

Here is my late night drawing, it turned out to be better than I had expected. Usually I have trouble keeping all the features in sync. I think this time I have pretty much controlled my hand and eyes :) But still there is great room for inmprovement.

My first 3D character RIG

2006-10-11T08:55:00.000-05:00

Here is a snap of my first rig for my 3d boy character. It has been long working on it. I had some issues in defining proper deformations. At one point I was stuck in doing that as max6 gizmos to do that does not work perfectly, but I have found out the way from cgtalk, so will be finishing it soon. This is really a basic rig, with lip bones and a jaw bone.

New character

2006-10-11T08:38:00.000-05:00

Once I was practicing drawing foot and while contructing the bottom view, I saw a cool shape for the head. So I drew a character inspired from that shape.

3D character : Update 5 (clothes and shoes textured)

2006-09-14T02:44:00.000-05:00

I have finally done texturing to clothes and shoes of my 3d character. Here are few updates on that. Shoe was the most difficult and time consuming. Rearranging uv coordinates took almost a day! It was really difficult to find or put suitable shoe material. Besides color choice was not easy either, I had a lot of combos but finally I settled down with chocolate color theme, I used very mild light

New mouse design

2006-09-09T01:43:00.000-05:00

I created this mouse for a 3d battle in KirupaForum. I had designed some of the concept designs. My main concept was to give a good grip and easy and faster navigation. I replaced the mouse wheel by joy-stick to give more freedom for motion. Joy-stick can also act as middle mouse down, just like mouse wheel.I had done a little survey on that forum to know what is the general grip to hold the

Side face close up

2006-09-09T00:05:00.000-05:00

I had this rendered image of my 3d character's face from side view. I really like this render, so I retouched the image in Photoshop to add some color and effect.

3D character : Update 4 (texturing begins)

2006-09-08T14:37:00.000-05:00

Well! A lot of things have been done after I posted my last render. At last modelling part is over (pheewuuu)! I have started texturing the model now. Initially I was reluctunt to start with any complex texturing, rather I wanted to apply simple shaders to the objects. But I thought to have a look at uvw unwrap feature. So I was just playing with that feature and started texturing tshirt. But

Old anatomy study drawings

2006-09-05T15:42:00.000-05:00

Here are some of my anatomy study drawings I had done few months back. I forgot the name of the book (from library) I used for reference. It was something like Anatomy for figure drawing. I made these drawing to study general muscles and bones in male torso (hand and chest). I am planning to do similar drawings with more details of muscles some day soon. I did shading in these images to see in

3D character : Update 3

2006-09-05T12:55:00.000-05:00

Here I am with updates on my 3d character. It's almost ocmpleted in terms of modelling. Only mouth is remaining now.It took me so long to reach here because sometimes I was just running after a highly detailed character. So I kept moving vertices to get a very smooth detailed mesh. But when I see the result after rendering it's not much noticable. So there has to be an end to modelling,

3D character : Update 2 (Shoe)

2006-08-30T08:00:00.000-05:00

Finally! After 3 days of pulling hairs and eye-burning sessions, I finally came up with something interesting and to an extent satisfying result. Lack of experience in complex 3d and lack of original drawings costed me more time than I had presumed. After I attached shoe to body of character 3dsmax took more resourses and now it was almost impossible to get smoothed result with iteration set to 4

Everthing is constructed from basic elements

2006-08-28T12:07:00.000-05:00

There always exist some primitive elements that construct complex object. Any object can be drawn from basic shapes like, circle, rectangle etc. It's also similar to sculpting, we start from a lump of egg and then cut it and give wanted shape. And also add other primitive egg lump to previous one and join them to form new lump.Similarly if I want to make a head I will start with egg shaped circle

3D character : Update 1

2006-08-28T11:39:00.000-05:00

I could not finish the features I wanted to in last weekend. But I was able to complete leg, ear and started with shoe. Right now I am working on shoe and when I am done with it I will duplicate the leg and ear and will have fairly finished character. I will add details to face and eyes and mouth.For the update I have right now his hands, which was fun working with. But due to my lack of

A fun drawing

2006-08-26T00:50:00.000-05:00

I saw a picture in the newspaper and I liked the facial features of character. So I took inspiration from the picture and modified some features to my like and here is the result. A quick sketch of an old fella. I wanted to have more comic type of look, and I was glad to somewhat achieve that.

Very basic drawing practice

2006-08-26T00:17:00.000-05:00

I was given the basic exercise of drawing as part of my animation course. It was for freeing my hand to draw smooth and fast. It was really helpful as i had not done drawing in past month.I had to draw horizontal and vertical lines mostly by moving my elbow to get wide range or distance. Then I had to draw uniform circles of same size and this would use my wrist as well as my grip. Now grip is

My first 3D character : modelling

2006-08-25T02:19:00.000-05:00

3D has always intrigued me from the day I came to know about it. And I love 3D films for it's own style and test. As a part of learning 3D animation I started modelling a character in 3dsmax. I was planning to start with definite character, but I want to do more experiment in sculpting. So I started with some idea of what I want my character to look like. And this is what I have got till now. I

Start of Beginning

2006-08-23T01:01:00.001-05:00

After a long duration of waiting and thinking once in a while, I have finally started my blog. I want to share my learning experience with other people in hope that it will be useful to some of them. Also I wish to get comments and critiques for my work to improve my skills. So that is all I have to say in the beginning of my journey.And for a good start I am posting my drawing that I did a long