next in Bollywood

a workshop by Jai Natrajan & Mehul Hirani @ Kolkata.

CGTExpo 2011

DSK SupInfocom Graduation Ceremony

Was part of the DSK Supinfocom 1st Graduation ceremony.... great fun.

Customer Showcase: Autodesk

Interesting coverage by Autodesk in their Customer Showcase.

Lets Talk Animation, Kolkata, WEBEL DQE

Lets Talk Animation, with industry experts.
7th, May 2011
G.D.Birla Sabhagar,
Kolkata

It was a good opportunity to be one of the speaker at an event organized by WEBEL DQE @ kolkata.

The idea behind this event was to get the industry experts and share their experiences with the current and the future students. Through this sharing also guide them, inspire them, educate them about the current happenings and the future of the industry.

The program was introduced by Ms. Srimati Mukherjee, Center Head, Webel DQE Animation Academy
Followed by Technical sessions:
Mr, Mehul Hirani - Creative Director, Crest Animation Studios Ltd, Mumbai
Mr. Sameet Gupte - CG Lead - Prime Focus
Mr. Sumanta Ghosh - Character FX artist, DreamWorks India, Bangalore
Ms.Fahmida Ismat - 3D Animator, DQ Entertainment, Kolkata
Mr. C.S.Rajaram - CTO (2D/Digital & Overseas operations)
Mr. Ziauddin - Asst. Vice President - 3D Production, DQ Entertainment, Hyderabad
Ending with a vote of thanks from Mr. C.Rudra

The event was extremely well organized by the Webel Team at a very lovely location, and I truly appreciate their planning & hospitality. Add to this an extremely interested and patient crowd. The Webel team, the DQ team from Kolkata, the student and ex-students (now professionals) did a great job of entertaining the crowd through beautiful live music and acting as Master of Ceremonies.

It is always fun to be in a place like Kolkata which has been blessed with immense amount of Creative Talent, they have an amazing presence in the Advertising industry, Bollywood, Literature, Theater and Animation. I am sure that a lot of these students today would be great achievers in the Animation Industry in the future.

The Presentations:
Sameet presented some wonderful VFX work, Ms Fahmida Ismat - ex student and currently an animator shared her beautiful journey from being a dreamer to someone who is actually living her dream now. Sumanta Gosh - ex student, was completely nostalgic when he shared his experiences at Webel and then at different companies, he shared a clipping from their current works @ DreamWorks India and he also shared a lot of what to expect when you start in the industry. Mr.C.S.Rajaram: had a very inspiring story to share, it was amazing to see that how he started off and where he has reached today. Personally I loved the clipping he shared on the histroy of Animation, very well sourced and made. I am going to borrow it from him soon :). Mr.Ziauddin : Spoke at length about the actual work floor, I am sure that this presentation would have helped the students to get a view of what really happen on the studio side.

I was getting late and I had to leave the event at this stage itself......

The part which I like a lot was that no one, the speakers nor the team from Webel, ever stressed the prospective students to take on this field because it is lucrative, they kept it real and inspired them to follow their passion and in case their passion happens to be Animation & film making then do consider, and take the correct path.

All in all a fantastic event and one more hectic day.....  off to Mumbai to my SELP class.

Workshop on Animation & VFX @ Bangalore, ZICA

Workshop on Animation & VFX @ Bangalore, ZICA

5th, May 2011 : A one day workshop conducted @
YAVANIKA,
Directorate of Youth Service center,
Nrupathunga Road,
Bangalore 560001

It was a great pleasure to share the experiences of the artist in the Animation Industry and also give a little vocational guidance to the future artist intending to get into this field. It was a Mix of crowd with very few artist from the animation industry, a few students and students intending to get in along with their parents.

This it the 1st time I was addressing such a crowd but it was fun. And the best part was sharing the stage with one of the most renowned artist of our industry, Kaka-Dhimant Vyas.

It was a pleasure to meet Mr.V.S.Honnatti, ZICA Banashankari, Mr.N.Shiva, Basaveshwarnagar and Mr. Ritesh Anchan, ZICA mumbai. And not to miss their enthusiastic & dedicated team who made this event possible and successful.

An extremely exciting and tiring day..... god bless.

Texturing workshop @Whistling woods

We all have been cribbing and crying over the quality of artist that come out of the institutes and every other year we are expecting some kind of a miracle to happen. I have taken up this initiative of collaborating with institutes and see what I can do to share some knowledge with these budding artist. Just when I was having these thoughts, I got an offer from Chaitanya & Siddharth from Whistling Woods to take a workshop with their students. So here I am with my second Texturing Workshop with the Juniors batch @ Whistling woods. It is going to be a 5 day workshop for approximately 3 hours a day.

Will update you all on the progress soon.

Cheers
Mehul

Painting Tutorial : Lips

this is one more painting tutorial that i followed. dont exactly know how much time i took to finish this, but it was real fun.
hope you like it.

comments and critiques welcome
cheers
mehul

Kabirs Photos 6-8 months

these are some of kabirs picture taken some time in may 2005. at that time he was around 7 months. used Nikon FM10 shot on 400 ASA film, without flash both indoor and outdoors.
the pictures includes a lot of picture taken at mahableshwar our first trip out of town with our child kabir.

hope you enjoy the pictures.

cheers
mehul

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