An Ode to Mr. McKay

Written & Directed by: Siddharth Gautam Singh
Animation: Siddharth Gautam Singh, Rohit Iyer
Sound & Mixing: Siddharth Gautam Singh
Narration: Rohit Iyer

"Once upon a time, not so far away, lived a little frog named Mr. McKay..."

The tale of Mr. McKay, a fashion-conscious frog who loves to party!

Created for Lina Tipnis' show during Lakme Fasion Week 2008.

For more info, check out Sid's blog here - http://cafesid.blogspot.com/2008/11/once-upon-time.html

Rani Bonkeshwari

She'll be comin' round the mountain when she comes,
She'll be comin' round the mountain when she comes,
She'll be comin' round the mountian,
Like a gigantic, frantic fountain,
She'll be comin' round the mountain when she comes!

Written by the disturbed brain of Mr. K M Ayappa, the creator of the brilliant Porok, and animated by yours truly... Isn't It Iyeronic presents the queen of pleasure, in great measure...

RANI BONKESHWARI!



UPDATE:
I've put up Rani Bonkeshwari on YouTube as well (that place seems to get more traffic). So spread the word!

rgb

rgb 2007 is the first design festival in India and it's been a long time coming. Conceived and planned by the students of NID, it will be held this October on the 5th, 6th and 7th.

The student team organizing the event asked me to quickly create an intro animation (based on the logo, created by the ridiculously talented SN Rajpurohit) for the festival, and this is what I whipped up over three days and nights-


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I made this in Maya 7.0 and rendered it with finalRender Stage-2. The idea was to get make something that looks and sounds professional and is at the same time short and quick. The really difficult part was finding the right material and render settings to get the desired look. I wanted a glass/acrylic feel to the letters. Both the letters and the camera were animated to give the feeling that the logo is forming slowly. The camera movements are very bullet time inspired and the shots were edited to sync with the music.

I really enjoyed working on this as it gave me an opportunity to get back to working with Maya and to experiment with new ideas. And given the time constraints, it was a pretty cool crash job.

I hope you like it. Do post your thoughts!

VC Promos 2007

Well, this post is LONG overdue.

Brief introduction - Every year, at NID, we have a festival called Monsoon Fiesta where we have three teams competing for the prize, namely VC (Visual Communication), ID (Industrial Design) and Foundation (Freshers).

Each year we make promos to promote our team and colour. Last year VC's colour was green:



This year we were white.

So here are the promos...

The first is a spoof of an old commercial:



This is our version (Directed by Sayantan, I have a cameo):


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The other three promos are spoofs of the Get A Mac Ads. These were made by me, Vinu and Devika.

http://www.apple.com/getamac/ads/

And here they are. ID's played by Ayush Jain. And Tanvi Bhatia plays the lovely Foundy. Some of the jokes are quite specific, so don't worry if you don't get them.

BE VC - Poster

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BE VC - Basketball

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BE VC - Next Year

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By the way, I play VC.

My MTV Work Is On Air!

UPDATE!!!

Here are UN-CUT versions of the two promos I made during my internship at MTV.

Enjoy!





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Hey!

Finally back to posting. Coming to the point:

MTV India has a whole new look and the channel's been revamped. So has the website:

http://www.mtvindia.com/

My two promos are finally on air. One is the MTV-Vh1 CAS promo. It appears at random times so watch out for it.

The second promo is the intro for a new show on MTV called IT SUCKS! This promo appears at the start of the show, which airs at 6 pm on weekdays. You can also see it online on the same website linked above.

http://www.mtvindia.com/mtv/mymtv/shows/itsucks/

The problem is that the quality's quite bad and the promo has been CENSORED!

I'll be posting an UNCUT version here soon, so look out for that!

Isn't It Iyeronic presents "KEEDA" (Bugs/Fun)!!!

A stop-motion short film about bugs who just want to party! It's a pool party in a toilet. But when a guy's gotta go, a guy's gotta go. See what the bugs do to save the day!


NOTE:

-You need to have Quicktime 7 to view the video. You can download that here.
-The sound and music are only temp (The music is from The Incredibles OST)
-The titles are going to be redesigned.
-Other than further small changes, you can consider this pretty much the final cut of the film.

Enjoy! :)

Counterstrike Condition Green

A Counterstrike Parody made by Jupiter and I for VC during Monsoon Fiesta 2006 -

What's the harm in trying, eh?

Well, we finally finished it - the made spot by Dhaneesh and I for the upcoming children's TV show, Galli Galli Sim Sim (The upcoming Indian version of Sesame Street - click on the name for more info), is finally done!

Watch it below or view the movie here.

And do post your comments!

PS - It's only scratch sound -- the final sound will be done by professionals in Delhi (or at least I hope so). AND it's in Hindi, so non-Hindi people.... umm... sorry, I guess.

Presenting... KOSHISH:

Look Ma - I made a promo for Channel [V]!!!

Hey.

Now, before you actually read this, you're gonna want to have a look at this web page (hope it hasn’t expired by now!) –

http://www.vindia.com/specials/dywtv/about.html

Have you had a look? Well, go ahead; I’ll wait.

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Great – you’re back. Well, I saw a poster about this competition about “Making your very own promo for Channel [V]” on a lot of the NID notice boards about, mmmmm… two weeks ago. At THAT point of time, I thought – “Hey – I’ve just made a promo; don’t wanna do THAT again! And anyway, two weeks is nearly not enough to make a proper promo.

So I stayed that way with my little mind, not knowing what a little bit of work frustration and restlessness and a crazy idea could do. You see, my jury’s coming up and I really haven’t done all the work that I should have been doing all semester. There’re tons of backlogs left before I can feel satisfied about my work this year.

But what does all of that have to do with this? Well, the point is, sometimes it takes doing something crazy to bring passion back into your work. And that’s what happened here.

I was still thinkin’, “Hey – I don’t need to make no promo. I don’t hafta prove anythin’ to anybody.” And then I see people left-right-and-center running around doing stuff. I still wasn’t convinced. But then one day (four sleepless nights ago), I had an idea. And I decided – “What the hell – let’s do this and see what happens!”

So, “What happened?”, you ask…

Well, I spent four solid days in my room in front of my computer, with absolutely no paper (but a Graphic Tablet and a Stylus), drank loads of chai, kept myself awake listening to everything from Pink Floyd to the Bluffmaster soundtrack and came up with this –



I hope you like it. In fact, you BETTER like it. Because I’ve uploaded it on the Channel [V] website, see? And there’s NO way I can change it… So don’t go getting any ideas or suggestions or advice. It won’t make a difference. And anyway, I’m gonna sleep through this Sunday, so even if you DO leave a message, I’ll see it only on Monday. So make it a NICE COMPLIMENT.

I hate Mondays as it is.

Rohit out.

Promotional Spot for the NID Film Club

What began with this...

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...has resulted in this -

Make sure you have the Flash Player plugin to view it. You can install it from -

http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash

This spot was made by me and a friend of mine in Film & Video - Siddharth Gautam Singh (You can call him Sid, though).

Let me know what you think!