Valentine's Day 2013

Dear World, Happy Valentine's Day. Even though sometimes you are a steaming pile of turd, I love you.

Have a happy 2013!

At the end of 2012, we've all evolved(Though sometimes it's hard to tell what exactly we've evolved into). Hopefully 2013 is the year we all get super powers. 

Note: ability to dig out all the mucus your nose ever generated is NOT a super power, no matter how many people may insist on it. 
So let's not dig. It's not like there's gold at the end of the tunnel there.

Happy New Year!

Fanart for Neil Gaiman's American Gods

I love American Gods by Neil Gaiman and had done this some time back after I'd finished reading it This is the scene where Zorya Polunochnaya picks the moon and gives the protagonist, Shadow , a coin.

Some of the stuff I did this year

A page from my sketchbook. This guy was on a scooter next to my rickshaw in Mumbai

Kurkure Monster Paws Ad

Live action+ animation ad by Studio Eeksaurus. 
I worked on storyboards and animated the monster from the shot where he's waiting around a door till the end. Fun. So much fun!!!

Figuring out how to integrate the 2d and flash animation(Clean up, colour and inking in Flash as well as most of the animation) with the live action took some headscratching the 3D department was a live saver :)

Let's see if longer cuts of it get online soon.

Sherlock

Shut up, Anderson! He's a high functioning sociopath, do your research.

Studio Eeksaurus - Payback

Okay I am making up for lost time by putting up all the work I am allowed to show now.
This is an ad for Payback done some time ago, animated mostly in Flash. Each person in the 2D team worked on almost every shot since there are so many characters!

Granny Dance Off

Here's something from Studio Eeksaurus. It's for Jumpin, a mango drink and this is for their Nani VS Nani dance off. It's a dance off between two grannies and viewers are supposed to vote on who should continue into the next round.
This project was at first mostly something the studio interns worked on(dance moves, storyboard, character design, animation etc), but the 2D team jumped in later(some of the animation, colour, look and feel, clean up, colour, compositing etc).
I animated the curtain in the intro, Shanti tucking in her sari pallu in Shot 03, Julie tossing the thermometer in her mouth and the side to side neck moves in shot 12 and the end tag , and Julie mocking Shanti with the whole wave on the nose thing.
The song is a remix of an old  1960 Bollywood classic song  "Nani teri morni ko mor le gaye",
Translation : Granny, peacocks took your peahen(er sidenote.. that's what you call the female, right?) away. 

Ok, that sounds weird when translated into English :)

Packing and moving is hard. Also, I will always hate brown tape.

Valentine's Day Digital Doodle

Come on, they even died together, how can it not be an epic love story?

Tv people

I was watching BBC's Sherlock and got really distracted by this actor's ears.