Pune Design Festival

Feels great & privileged to be associated with @PuneDesignFest, as a juror. #ThankYou for this lovely gift.

TV series writing for Sheikh Chilli and Friends

Post my academic stint I joined iRealities Technologies Pvt. Ltd as a creative director. My first task was tackling the writing and direction of the hit animated TV show Sheikh Chilli and Friendz. My background as a story artist came as a great advantage.
My story plots and final scripts were visual in nature which helped speed up the Storyboarding process with lesser revisions. I was also aware of the production limitations, so balancing it with entertainment and new-ness is something I did my best at.
Currently this season is airing on Discovery Kidz India.

Puppet Show

I have always had a fascination with toys and the way a child will use them to do storytelling and keep himself entertained. I am a product of the same.
Somewhere in 2009 I saw Dadi Pudumjee perform at NCPA and BOOM!! went my mind. I wanted to study it, but since I was busy with animation this dream kind of got left out. When I went into academics I nurtured my dream back to life (I was the Head of the Department at Symbiosis Institute of Design, Pune). But then how to go about it?? I contacted renowned puppeteer and theater personality Meena Naik to come take a workshop at the institute where I taught and learnt a bit of the process of putting together a puppet play.
The next year I floated an elective on Puppetry and here are some of the results.

This a prayer to Lord Ganesha that we choreographed with the help of our theatre teacher Aditi, it is a complex 3 person operated puppet. It was a great joy to see my effort come to life.

We also created some short skits.

Finally I was able to turn the short skits into two good student projects.

Now that I am back in the industry I did put a pitch together to make the project into commercially sustainable production which retains the culture. Hope it goes into production soon.

Tanishq Commercial

The first commercial my office mates and I made at Animagic. 15 days of work went into getting this result.

Boomer

This is an animated short that I did for boomer bubblegum blowing championship with some finishing touches by sunil TA. These are the chara I designed for the commercial. Neat eh?







The people who commissioned this work are a funny lot, they took my work, paid me well but have not yet aired it on TV. I'll upload the video by Dec end even if it is not there on TV by then.

Prototype test run

My frist go at a full clay animation with armature.

Plain Jane

My first try at 3D animation.

Stopmotion

OneWorld

My graduation project. It's a bit big will take time to stream.

Yeh kya ho raha hai

First prize winner at MOODI

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