I had a great time at Orbit Live 2017.  An Annual event organized by Aptech Limited in Mumbai. In their words : “Over the years, Orbit Live has emerged as an interactive platform for students where they get to work closely with icons from the fields of animation, VFX, gaming, graphics & web designing. Students…

I will be giving a TEDx talk at BITS Pilani on 22 January. More at TEDxBITSPilani

While attending SIGGRAPH Asia at Macao, I was able to sit with Ian Failes, and chat about Schirkoa in detail. Here is the full interview. 

ASIFA India (Hyderabad) celebrated International Animation Day a bit late. But for all the right reasons. They had a great bunch of speakers and hundreds of enthusiastic students on 4th January 2017 for a full day event. It was fantastic to chat with Rajesh Sharma (Walt Disney Animation), Rajiv Chilaka (Green Gold Animation) and Dipak, Varun,…

We had a wonderful time at Macao last week. Venetian Macao was full of grandeur and it really felt like the Mecca for Computer Graphics Community. We made so many good friends, explored some amazing technologies and attended some very insightful panels and talks. Not to mention the epic electronic theater with giant screen and…

UPDATES ON SCHIRKOA An update after so long. I have been mostly busy with Schirkoa’s blog and submissions. So here are some updates from past several months.   Schirkoa made it to Oscar long list by winning the top award at LA Shorts. It didn’t make it to the final 10 though. It was the…

We attended the KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival last week at Netherlands. The festival was packed with hundreds of film screenings, art events, workshops and fun activities. We spent most of the time in the theater watching brilliant animation on the giant screen at the EYE Film Museum. This was my first time watching Schirkoa on…

I have been updating Schirkoa’s (my upcoming short film) progress on CGTalk forum for a long time. Now that film has reached it’s completion it’s good to have a front page on CGTalk for a WIP thread. This is the 4th time it is on the CGTalk front page.  

And a poster