Happy new year

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"Just dig the process…for there will always be a beginning and an end."

Karthik Rajendran | Visual Design Artist

The art of logo creation

cg-space (@cg_space) tweeted at 5:07 PM on Thu, Dec 27, 2012: The art of logo design. Check out this cool video by PBS to find out the brainstorming process behind a logo creation. http://t.co/96JNzsXk (https://twitter.com/cg_space/status/284261612964171776) Get the official Twitter app at https://twitter.com/download

Voyage of the Nailer

A futuristic Cowboy and his ride.

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Print to web to print

An interesting turnaround that i have observed lately is the interchange of print and web in terms of some features.

Print to web- more web designs have started adopting a more brochure type layout i.e., the same has been translated in the form o technology by Adobe Muse, where the layout creation is more like Indesign and the esport is to the web!!

Web to print- with the onset of rrtina display, the images nowadays are demanding more clarity...of the order 220dpi, which is quite close to the 300dpi that we use for print related designs.

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Looper infographic

I was quite inspired by the movie 'Looper''; and wanted to create an infographic for it. Here it is. Hope you like. c&c's welcome :)

thanks for viewing.
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Bond

Bardan looked great. An engaging villain. His cyanide effecred face was a new and the vfx and idea behind that shot is very nice. Selice is the perfect beauty. Wow. I was looking forwqrd to a fisty between bond and H. Well, somethings i hope for...but in the end its all a Skyfall. Beautiful title. Beautiful movie.

Buy in mania

Disney buys all of LucasFilm. I dont know how i feel about it. The trend of big organizations aquiring other organization has been a trend ala Autodesk.

Hope Disneys pays respect to starwars and makes the forthcoming sequels with the same spirit as Lucas. Say what you want but after disney acquired Pixar two of its most anticipated movies have flopped bigtime!

Maybe I'll watch CLOUD ATLAS again; 'was think about it and feel that this could very well win the best picture Oscar for the year.

Waiting to readup on the vfx details in the movie.

If you want to promote yourself as a portfolio site, don't have restriction in terms of the image dimensions and whole lot of steps to post our images. I get frustrated with sites like Behance and CGsociety that pose a lot of rules for us to post images in our own portfolio!!

Fuck you guys.

Return to Friederquad

I had done a speed paint a while back using GIMP, of a place called Friderquad. Recently, when i opened a new division to my personal works called, blkScape, I had this urge to revisit Friderquad in a more elaborate  way. I have tried my hand at matte painting and failed in the past. I want to work on my matte painting skills. So, i started off with this. Call it my first matte painting. I am not happy with this piece.

Have to improve lots.

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Going mobile with graphic designs!

Really in awe of mobile sketching apps liks autodesk sketchbook express, sketch free etc.,

I would really like a robust vector graphic creation app with proper eps or ai or cdr an pdf export. That i think, will really pave way the way to the next generation of mobile-anytime-anywhere-working...

Watched it this weekend. It is a magnificant effort. the makeup effects is soooo good. it's very convincing and didn't take me out of the movie. The story is also well woven although on first viewing i wasn't able to get the whole story. The vfx is really great and the concepts quite consistent and believable.

Tom hanks and Halle Berry really carry the movie on their shoulders and they are really good. I mean i actually mistook Tom Hanks for Channing Tatum in the poster doind the rounds!!. He's really good as the gladiator look alike.

Overall, really great effort on all fronts. It's one of those movie one needs to watch alone in a quite room.

Can't say if i liked it or was bored by it's 3hr runtime!! but i'd say that i didn't hate it. Which is more than i can say for many recent releases.

Would like to read the book, for the narration is one of the highlights in this humungous celluloid effort.

Foundry and Luxology merge. Wow! now the possibilities are endless. VFX is going to take a real leap!! John Knoll, god of vfx supervisors, and co-founder of Photoshop was responsible for suggesting the merger. I hear Foundry is also on it's way to creating a photoshop competitor.

Finger's crossed.

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Tears of Steel - Blender Mango open movie

Really proud to be a Blender user. Congratulations guys :)

Tears of Steel

VISUAL DESIGN { A poster for a film festival on a social cause }

3D { Personal work }

The year 2052 A.D.

With 2012 about to get over, the end to earth was at hand. An unexpected development leads to a new discovery. The tectonic plates moving and toppling over each other presents the earths crust with a new mineral from deep within the earths core. A mineral that emits a gas that mixes with the harmful gases for humans and makes them respiratory!! The discovery of Minura. 

Minura was exclusive to earth and was very very rare in the universe. The unknown realm wanted access to this rare mineral that would allow them to exist in any adverse conditions without extrinsic support. Earth scientists planned on the construction of two globular hemispherical shells that would revolve the earth’s periphery and prevent Minura gases from escaping the ionosphere. A rim was built later around the circumference to secure the planet and to safe keep the mineral. The huge rotating rim was divided into four sectors: Nethren, Sulorn, Woldour, and Ethelone. For many years the security forces guarding the rim prevented extraterrestrial attacks trying to take Minura away from earth for good.

The rim had never been penetrated…until now. 

PAINTING { The Elephant Thief }

3D { Eve from the Pixar movie Wall-E }

GRAPHIC DESIGN { A Logo Design }

CONCEPT ART < Autodesk Sketchbook > { This painting won an award at 3dtotal.com }

GRAPHIC DESIGN { Mailer for Shell }

ILLUSTRATION { An illustration for a 'go green' concept device that was extensively used for the Logica promotion activities at the TED conference held in Jaipur }

FLASH ANIMATION & UI DESIGN { A prototype for a new e-Learning course }

GRAPHIC DESIGN { Mailer }

GRAPHIC DESIGN { Mailer }

PAINTING { Yukio's Visit }

3D { Hydraulic Turbine modeling and composition for a presentation }

ILLUSTRATION { Wonders of the Xuin Myuin Winters }