Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Pakdam Pakdai


Hi,

A new TV series "Pakdam Pakdai" has started on Nick India Mon to Fri 6.30 pm since 8th of April 2013. I would request you to watch the same as it has a big IDC hand in it.

At Animagic we did the preproduction for 7 and 1/3 of the 25 episodes of the first season and Animagic is the brainchild of Sumant, Gayatri (both IDC Alumni) and Chetan.
Initially when I joined this project I thought it was going to be on the same lines as that of "Tripura-The Three Cities of Maya" (Pl see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gIQboCvHyc with Chetan doing the storyboards and me doing the animatics. However midway Chetan took a big risky decision and gave the team the responsibility of the project. This move gave me a mini heart attack then but looking at it now I see how much I have learned by Chetan being absent from the decision making process. (Shaunak Samvatsar) was the only person with exp on the team and the rest were more or less freshers only and so was running the team and was mainly responsible for the Storyboards and finals of the Animatics. I was full time on this project only. It was an unique exp interacting on skype with a director who was based in another city and executing his vision of the series. I had a lot of creative freedom which I exercised with caution otherwise it would eat into the production schedule. At starting we did only 7 min of animatics in a month and by the end of the project we were approx able to execute 42 min of animatics in a month.
In the initial phase of the project Deepa Chordia of IDC did the visual styling.
Rohan Deshchougale was the lead on Episode specific characters and layouts. Mitali Choudhari and Anshita Agarwal did the animatics, props and helped in production planning. All of these are from Symbiosis Institute of Design. The rest of the team consisted of Suhas Koli, Priyanka Rewale, Sania, Ankit, Mahesh and Santosh who were the animatics and BG team. A special mention to our Project Manager Shital Suryavanshi who was able to incorporate into herself into the creative process without becoming a "Management Bother"
We have put in a whole lot of effort into our episodes which is why a team of mainly freshers were able to accomplish what a lot of establish studios were unable to. We have missed sleep, family functions and have many a times lost our heads while maintaining the delivery schedules. The series is fun and quite well executed and I really hope you spare some time to watch the same everyday.


CHEERIO,
Shaunak

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Pakdam Pakdai finally finished

Yesterday at Animagic we had a celebratory ice cream party. It was because the TV series we were designing for Nick India finally came to an end. The team did an awesome job.. I had the opportunity to work with some awesome students of SID Rohan, Mitali and Anshita who trained in the necessary softwares  and skills for the job.
I was responsible for the storyboarding and animatics and had a great time in understanding the vision of Director Nilesh Nevgi on this project.

We did 7 full 21 min episodes and one 7 min episode in about 9 months with a small core team of @7 people. Awesome achievement. Will update with storyboards and animatics once the series releases on TV.

Pls check out Rohan's links
dbzfreako.deviantart.com
behance.net/rohandd

Thats me in red and white stripes. Behind me are mitali and Anshita. Sheetal our PM is at the left in Red

From L to R.. Anil, Dashrath Kaka, Nilesh, Rohan, Chetan, Dumroo the Dog and Gayatri.



Here are the rough storyboards.. very rough a first run I make before digital detail.

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Breadcrumbs

Off the kerela cost 2 italian marines mistook local fishermen as pirates and killed them. They were arrested and put on trial in India. Then they were given 4 days to go and vote in Italy on the Italian govt assurance. Once there the Italian govt said no return as we don't like your policies and legal procedures.
Our govt is now making idle threats.

Sunday, January 20, 2013

Breadcrumbs

I just love the Mallya's. Even after selling a stake of his golden goose he can't get kingfisher to fly.