Danny's Dream

Here is a project I was a part of when I was in Fatballoon Animations, Chennai. I love the concept and the look of it. It was immense fun animating. Below is the list of shots I animated and the rest was animated by Anand Kumar.

Thoughts

 

Ever imagine a life that they show in sitcoms. happy, and if sad, it doesn't feel so much and you get over it. Those perfect moments, those perfect dates, those perfect beautiful gardens and cozy coffee houses. Those stupid, little but worthy things to live for. is it real?

It's so weird. Everything. I am learning that everyone's perspective are REALLY different, even more than they say. By they, I mean' I don't know who exactly, but somebody'. It's so hard to function with another person with a different view and a different persona.

How two minds function with each other. How they don't. How to manage people and teams, how not to. There are books, there are sessions for life but doesn't it just goes as it have to? It's too random, the universe is. Too elusive to hold and tweak it the way we want. We can only be prepared for it. Not control it. I don't think there is really a way to learn to do all these things when you want to. Trying to organize this uncertainty is impossible. Should we stop trying and instead, just live it.

You must be wondering why I am being so philosophical and staid on a blog called Art Life. I figured,  'it's art AND its life, so let's think over on life a little'. Bear with me.

I think of all this because I am too malleable sometimes emotionally. A song I hear, a picture I see, a film I watch or a place I visit. Suddenly I get lost in something which is not real. I get lost in that song, that picture, that film or that place. What it say and what it makes me feel. Those feelings don't become a cliché for me. They affect me in a new way again and again and I just sink down and down. At that moment, I become a creator. An artist. At that point is when I start working automatically. At that point I have a personality.

There is a story in everything and that is my job as a filmmaker. To tell a story. And the moment I create it I start working on telling it. We all do this in everything we do. We imply our ideas or share them. We portray everything we like and that's what we become as a person. A personality. This brings us to the start. The question is how two different persons, because they like and live different lives physically and mentally, can agree with each other, work together or live together. Some traits can be similar co incidentally but completely, it's impossible.

 I know I know I am saying 'impossible' too much but I don't want to be positive if the things I am talking are not. It's too random, can't figure it out but I have a feeling that I don't have to.

One more crazy step

Yeah I know. The same old thing. ‘I am sorry. I didn’t write for a long time’ and blah blah bla! I think I should kick myself for that but I’ll spare me this once ;-) Hopefully I am feeding my blog just in time, before it dies of starvation.

A lot of things happened.  I don’t know where to start. I left my job as a Character Animator at Fatballoon Animations, Chennai. I am back home. And there were few reasons to leave a good job like that. The major one is, well, even my friends from that studio may not know this ;-), ‘making my own short film’. Yeah you guessed right. I am THAT guy with THOSE dreams. Crazy I know. A risky or a stupid step I know. You better call me and my team here MAD, because that’s what we are.

I can’t reveal too much about the short like who and where and how we are working on it. But I promise you guys, at mid august, we will be launching the website of our short film with some of the Pre production work and the team members. All I can tell you is that we are having so much fun working together on our dream. I don’t care then if it doesn’t fill our tummies for now honestly. This is the time we can do it. This is the time we are doing it.

An old initial rough concept.

Keep up with the calendar as we will be launching the website and the work we are doing. I hope that you’ll enjoy the journey through the entire production of this film with us. Adios!         

Going Home :-)

Inspired from J.B. Monge, this is something I tried. Painting Fantasy Life is what I enjoy most. Hobbits, Goblins, All kinds of Fairies, Elves, Dragons, Wizards...oh! I know I haven't painted as much as I am saying but its coming. That is the world for me :-)
I used a BIG wacom Cintiq fo this one. We got a new one in our office and I thought of trying my hands on it. Its AWESOMEE!
Going home. ... Going...home ^_^

Itcha

 This is a Title Animation we did at our studio for a TV Series. I am responsible for the animation. There is a lot we could do more but the director was in a hurry it seems :-)
I am posting this just for fun here. . .


Itccha from Nilabh on Vimeo.

I also designed this character, here is the Final paint :-)