Fun, fun, fun!!!

Gun Run Shoot everything to survive.

Play this free game now!!

Ocean's Thirteen

One word - "Smooth".

Bring on Fourteen!

You've Never, "You've Never"-ed?

If you're like me then you really hate it when anyone springs the endlessly pretentious, "You've never...?", in the course of a conversation.

For instance, if at the mention of say... Pavlov, you innocently ask, "Er... what's pavlov?", it's very likely that you'll be hit with the remark, "You've never heard of Pavlov?" Incidentally Pavlov could refer to anyone of several famous (usually Russian) people.

Variations on this way of showing off (with appropriate examples) are:

-"You've never been to Fiji?"
-"You haven't seen Citizen Kane?"
-"You haven't read Gone With The Wind?", quickly followed by
"You haven't WATCHED Gone With The Wind?"
-"You've never been bungee-jumping?"
-"You've never heard of Guaocamole?"

This kind of name dropping is quite irritating. I don't understand why anyone would find it hard to believe that there's a first time for everything and that no one really knows everything. I myself have had the temptation to "You've never" some people, especially when it's regarding some of the more trivial bits of general knowledge. Yet it is definitely ridiculous to assume that every person must have gone through the same education/experiences as you and therefore knows all that you know.

In fact, even the belief that this assumption exists is false. Because, ideally the "You've never?" line is the ideal opportunity to show off one's superior knowledge regarding the world.

So how do we battle this phenomenon?

Simple. We just do unto others as they do unto us. Like so:

Pretentious Prick (From now on referred to as PP): So the other day I got into an argument about Sartre's Being and Nothingness...
You: Er... Sartre?
PP: You're kidding me? You've never heard of Jean-Paul Sartre?
You: Oh, Jean-Paul Sartre? I thought you were referring to Sartre of Mignon, the hidden beast also referred to in some circles as, "The Jolly Roger".
PP: Huh?
You: Don't tell me - you've never heard of The Jolly Roger?

Walk off immediately as though you are thorougly disgusted at such a possibility.

J'aime "Paris Je T'aime"

MTV Ahoy!

Hey, folks!

I'll be working as an intern at MTV India in the On-Air Promotions department for the next couple of months. Working in Mumbai is exciting and challenging at the same time. Will post some new stuff as it comes along.

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! :)

Mmmmmmm......

The Science of Sleep...

...is like a really long short film.

The Virtual Coke Cup

300 - What a waste...

...that it takes an extravagant visual treat of a politically-basic, big-budget, mega-hollywood event of a film to get people to appreciate a brilliant book that they haven't actually read and probably never will.

It's opera and I loved it. But what a waste.

UPDATE: Hmmm... could I be wrong?

The End

The guy taking our course is a final year student from the Royal College of Art, named Martin Ruyant. He's French and he did his graduation at Supinfocom school in France. There he made a film with a couple of other people called, The End.

Although the visuals and animation are really good, I was much more impressed with the simple story and strong concept. Have a look below!

Starting Animation...

Starting to learn Maya animation now. This is a ready-made rigged model that I'll be working with. Soon you'll be able to see some walk cycles and other animation.

3D Jack

Colour reference:

Learning MAYA

I've finally got on to the 3D bandwagon with Maya 7.0. Will be working with this software till the end of the semester (April 16th). Considering that I'm already really enjoying this, I'm sure that come April, my fingers will be glued to the mouse!

Till then, I'll keep seeing polygons and texture maps everywhere I go.

Deepak