Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Its Overwhelming...

With the vast amount things supposed to be learnt, I feel overwhelmed at times (OK... most of the times... Happy Now?), Sometimes it seems I have taken too much upon myself (With the decision to do by myself the Writing, Editing, Designing, Animation, Composing Score,etc., for my Demo reel).
But then I feel, it was necessary to do so... Animation was never made of one single thing, and so were painting, sculpting, music or as a matter of fact any artform. Art in its truest essence absorbs all it can (Well, thats my interpretation, you are free to disagree).
The Idea is (Not the original idea)The more I'm involved in each of processes... the more organic the creation process will be, as each and every discipline will influence each other in some or the other way. Hopefully, Ill succeed in making something which will be truly Unique(and good too.)

Saturday, July 4, 2009

Socha Tha Kya, Kya Hogaya...

Life never turns out as expected, its like a massive Hitchcock movie. Right from childhood I entertained dreams of so many occupations... during primary education - doctor, banker, national level cricket player, wrestler... The story isn't any different in tenth... IITian, Magician, Guitar God (Lage Raho...), there's graduation part too... for normal people, but I broke the chain, I'm out of the loop. Finally stuck on animation, but hitchcock(read god) had his way here too...

Thought I'd be different from the bunch, make great animation, create some very good characters, but the process itself is so full of !@#... Its difficult thing, I was trying to animate a peculiar thing I witnessed that a man was stirring the last few drops of coffee left in a use and throw glass before finishing it down, nailed down the timing (well, not exactly I just put the time I measured acting out the action myself... real understanding of timing seems to be elusive), spacing and posing turn out to be a big headache... couldn't manage a thing there... and again the actions without context seems so pointless... that I thought I was in a call centre job. God damn it!

With solution nowhere in sight, Pulled out some old animationWIP files, which I blocked but never really completed... and started animating them... there still are so many issues to be looked in them... that I feel why was I born?

Nikla tha badalne India ke animation scenario ko, cliche se cliche cheeze kar raha hu...