My very first linetest.

My very first linetest. from Nikhita Prabhudesai on Vimeo.

This was done in the first week of my first semester. I had no idea about timing or anything, but I wanted a simple page-flip. My friend Sarang jumped in through the classroom window and volunteered to flip the page with his hand! And wah-lah! ;)

Trajedy

Tragedy from Nikhita Prabhudesai on Vimeo.

My 4th sem sack movie, my first short film using a rice sack and a a prop (flask).
Took about a month to produce this.

An M.I.Tian's Jury

An illustration I worked on to show how juries are conducted in M.I.T.

Grumpy Evan

My second entry for today's sketchoholic topic, "COLD". Check out the other awesome entries (click on "COLD").

This piece took 15 mins to sketch and about 30 mins to paint.

The Frozen Eskimo

My first entry for today's sketchoholic topic, "COLD". Check out the other awesome entries (click on "COLD").

This piece took 20 mins to sketch and about 2 hrs to paint. It's my first digital illustration I guess, so it was a great learning experience! :)

Cheers!

Sketchoholic!

Thursday 20th Jan 2011

It's my first day at sketchaholic. I think this is the new world besides my real life. I can't wait to submit work there, the contests are SO interesting!! :) My profile looks empty but soon it will be filled with my growth. Still trying to get the hang of the time zones. ;) There is a daily inpsiration quote given, something that I always wanted before doing something challenging. Here it goes: "There is no failure except in no longer trying." -- Elbert Hubbard Hope I manage to stick to the time limits! :)
Thanks Ravi Gupta, for the introduction! :)

2 new inspiring blogs with the million others.

Jan 19th 2011

Well it started off as a bad day. Alok Ravi n Tanu ditched me for gym, so I went off to bed again, sleeping till ten. I rushed to college, Sir had just started teaching the ear. It was good, unlike yesterday's sleepy class. Maya's getting more easier for me to handle these days. And then I did some changed to my model, adding cuts and understanding some mechanics. By 3:00 I got really hungry, and the canteen had shut. I had got off from the workplace so I went to meet Ravi. He showed me this awesome software for making digital animation linetests. I'll use it quickly, maybe tomorrow. Dying to use it. Saw some really awesome work too that could be made using the software. Most of it was from this animator (probably a Gobelins student) who is SO awesome at his work. His name is Arthur Larsen. Here's his blog link:
http://arthurgillarsen.blogspot.com/search/label/3D%20stuff
You have GOT to check out. It made me think I could also produce such work as a student if he could. It was very inspiring.

And then Ravi also introduced me to Sketchoholic. Awesome contests up there, uncouraging young animators and artists to keep their hands loose. Guess it was started by Bobby Chui. He's another awesome guy.

Awesome T.T session after that. Got the change to play with some new people, including Sandesh (P.) sir! :) Had fun. Hope I'll get myself to do some sketches tonight.

My influence map

Shapeshifter

Shafeshifter - a wonderfully animated commercial

The Distracted Brain.

2nd Dec 2010

Why is it that I get distracted the most only during jury time? I wrote the time on the table. More than what I was writing I watched the lines that were being drawn, the lead grazing on the texture of the table. I wrote the time.7:29 pm. I would start working right....NOW. But I got distracted by the doodle on the table. I spent 5 minutes shortening her hair in 3 layers, something that changed her personality drastically. Random thoughts flowed in my brain after I was done decorating her. She looked like she could be a character in corpsebride. I looked around. Monica Vicky and Alok were working, and here I was talking to myself. Monica's lightdisc was in her hands, and I thought - hey, you can animate anywhere. All you need is a pegbar. You don't need a light disc, or a capturing table. I thought of making many films. I thought of writing this down. And I think now, as I write this down, hey, I could make a movie out of this. Infact, if there was someone shooting the sequence of events right now, shooting me typing this, shot by shot shooting my actions, I could make a movie out of it. Screw planning. Screw all that knowledge and research thats done so monotously before making something - even for the fun of it. All you need is the desire to have fun. I look back at the time. It's 7:44 now. Shit....
















That could be a 17 minute movie.