Storyboards Jan - 2013

Hi all,
i have not been sharing any art lately as there is a longer assignment going on where i am contractually bound not to share any art until its release. In between this there are few storyboards i did which i am sharing. Both these boards were done for Uzer Khan. One was for a television commercial for Lux Onn while other was a small segment for a tamil film where Uzer wanted to create a kind of mood board for the seq. Check these when you have time.

Back from the cave

Hi people.

It has been and long long long time in the cave. It took me almost eight months to wrap up AGENT VINOD -THE JUNGFRAU ENCOUNTER comic project. The book was almost 68 pages long and i have pencilled - inked and partly coloured the book. It was also a huge break from more lucrative regular work of storyboards. So after almost a year of sabbatical from storyboard, i did take up few assignments for old clients and some new ones. It has been crazy since last month. Almost about 7 brands and almost 13 films. Some long and some short. But it was good fun working on some of these. Especially i enjoyed Sparx Shoes board. Uzer's film has awesome action and its always fun to work on an action oriented storyboard. So here are all of them getting shared in one post. Hope you guys like these.

AGENT VINOD - THE JUNGFRAU ENCOUNTER

Hi People

i have been busy with our comic book AGENT VINOD - THE JUNGFRAU ENCOUNTER. The story is created ground up by Yogesh Chandekar who is also the writer of our FEAST AND OTHER VISIONS OF MALEVOLENCE project. He has done some awesome writing on the book which you all will only get to enjoy when the book gets to you. Here visit the mini site of our Agent Vinod comic book to see images and read about the project. What more you can pre order your copy from the link on the web site.
Kindly let us know your thoughts regarding the project in the feedback section.
Hope the story stays with you long after you have finished reading the book.

http://www.wix.com/agentvinod/tje#!

Ad campaign for PARLE NIMKIN biscuits

This is a set of three images i created for PARLE NIMKIN ads. The client wanted to use it in various sizes for outdoor and print. I had to work in a way where the layout can be mutated and yet the essence remains the same. Finally i opted to work on individual characters and background pieces in as many layers as possible so later it can be adopted in various sizes. The three ads were set to release in three different states but later on the client released the ad in more places.
This was lot of work happening very fast but it was real good fun...I enjoyed this entire assignment very much. There is lot of bad drawing in there i need to work towards not repeating the same mistakes again.

Concept art for a movie pitch

These pieces along with few more were created for a movie pitch. The directors wanted to share the flavor of the film with the producers. After few meetings and thumbnails we zeroed on the main set of images and characters to design. It was a short project yet highly enjoyable one. I had always opted to colour images in flat colours. But for these images a certain mood was required. I looked at it as an opportunity to learn to paint. It was real good learning experience...I guess i will have to do atleast 200 such pieces before i am able to paint decent stuff.

ONCE UPON A WARRIOR comic book adaptation

This project is very special for me in many ways. 'Anaganaga Oka Dheerudu'(Once upon a warrior in english) is a telugu/tamil film directed by Prakash Rao Kovelamudi and produced by A Bellyful of Dreams Production and DISNEY. The film is driven by fantastic visuals. Extremely talented Raj Golay was production designer for this project and had designed some really awesome characters and set ideas.
People at Disney supported this comic book project which is straight adaptation of the film. Raj worked on the first half of the book and i took over from page 34 onwards.It was 39 pages pencils to inks in two months time. I tried to push my art as much as i could in this one and the project has been a great learning experience.
I need to loosen up my pencils and use time to ink the pages is the lesson i have learnt from this. I have also done the cover and worked on end credits for the film. Here i am sharing all the art with you guys.