my entries for H3D contest

(click on the image for the high res version)

These are my final submission for the H3D contest for modeling and sculpting a comic character where i choose "The Monkey and the Crocodile" .

Hope u liked it.

Crocodile WIP

Zbrush may look alien initially and wonder why it has so many odd brushes, but once u get to know what each brush does the rest will be a cake walk (err. . more or less)

So, this is my W.I.P of the crocodile which I'm working on right now coz i REALLY din like the once which I did initially (which was done in jus 20 min.) so . . . jus re-working on the crocodile and trying to make it as realistic as possible. For now I have worked on just the body and leaving the best part (the face) till the end. If you find any mistakes/faults jus name it and I shall do my best in correcting them.

P.S - updates on the tree shall soon follow. 

2011 Demo Reel.

My Demo Reel for 2011!! :D

A Bonsai Tree

Started working on a Bonsai tree for my demoreel.

This is the reference image I'm using for the model.

Heres the WIPs,

Occlusion render

Wireframe

I'm stuck with two problems in here.

- As u can see, 'm not able to render the wire-frame of few branches using vector render in maya. So if you know wht the problem is about please let me know.

- Modeling the leaves individually is a hectic process and not the efficient way to finish this model, so if you can suggest a way to populate the tree with leaves then let me know. 

Thanks in advance.

P.S: theres more to come :)

Blood Donation

Donated Blood for the 1st time, was scared initially looking at the size of the needles :|
But guess what. .?? it barely hurts. .!! (thnx to the anesthesia) , and got frooty in return . . :P

Felt great after donating blood, looking forward to do this again after 3-months.

CGS Proc sharing

wohoo!! was a part of this 10 day online program where the selected 20 students got to interact with Divakar Ghodake, a Modeling TD who has 9 years of experience in the Vfx industry and has worked in movies like Superman Returns, The Incredible Hulk, The Golden Compass, etc.. Click here for more details of the program.


Shall soon post the work which I got to learn during this program. :)

The DREAM:IN Journey

The DREAM:IN project is the creation of a set of design thinkers across borders. It is designed to challenge us to create not for people’s needs, but for their dreams. Its time to get greed and need out of the way and create common dreams. In India, is it the time to unlock dreams, the dream of every common man, woman and child. And I'm more than happy to say that I was a part of this Journey which inspired me and made me re-think my goals and the perspective of the way I see. 


This Journey was planned for seven days, i.e., from 11th to 18th during which we traveled from Bangalore to Delhi-Aligarh-Agra-Etawah-Kanpur-Lucknow and back to Bangalore with a group of 9 members.


To sum it up, this was an amazing Journey!!