KICHAVADI

Our Film Premier!!!

2010-12-14T10:57:00.000-08:00

Our film "NANNA GOPALA" originally written by great poet of Kannada Language Dr. Kuvempu (Kuppalli Venkatappa Puttappa) is being premiered tomorrow (15/12/2010) at 4:30 at Renukamba Theatre, Malleshwaram, Bangalore.

Kuvempu Children Drama Fest - Shillong

2010-10-05T21:08:00.000-07:00

Our drama team is organising a drama fest at Shillong, Meghalaya jointly with Shillong Kannada Sangha on 23.10.2010.

Teams will be performing 3 dramas - Nanna Gopala, Bommanahalliya kindarijogi, Modanna Tamma. Totally 40 members !!

Subtitle for DVD

2010-09-05T23:59:00.000-07:00

Doing subtitle for our production with Linux.

After trying with Subtitle editor and facing problem of not able to playback footage then tried Gnome Subtitle editor. Stable and good piece of software.

Film out 35mm

2010-09-05T07:52:00.000-07:00

I did a film out of this video footage. (35mm scope).

http://www.vimeo.com/14110645

Looked great on projection :)

Originally shot on canon 550d HD. Then resized and cropped to 2048x585.

making title sequence for our film

2010-08-30T09:22:00.000-07:00

Title sequence of our film is done with Gimp and cinelerra.. Great apps to work with.. Its in final stage now.. Next is optical transfer of the sequence..

In Voice over process..

2010-07-22T10:00:00.000-07:00

"Nanna Gopala" produced by our Rangakahale creations, has completed the production process and now in its post production work. Editing is almost complete and voice over process is going on..

A well known Sound Engineer of Kannada Industry "Mahendar"

Our Voice over studio


Our Hero "Anil Kumar" doing voice over for his own voice.

Film Production

2010-06-05T01:58:00.000-07:00

Making an Children movie production, directed by my dad "Lakshman", written by famous poet Kuvempu.

Title "Nanna Gopala"
Visit this site for more details
http://rangakahale.co.cc

Test Demo of kichavadi

2010-03-12T09:34:00.000-08:00

This is the demo for the series. Still shots need to be done. Getting the timing correct for now.. Later working on the details and finally rendering it in Aqis (Renderman)..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4neSnyoUd8

ramenhdr exploration..

2010-03-11T10:39:00.000-08:00

just trying NPR with Ramenhdr..

Photographs are from my favourite village in karnataka..

Anil Sad walk (update)

2010-01-01T21:38:00.001-08:00

Will add a bit of environment.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xbpesi_sad-walk-4-front_creation

Sad walk

2009-12-31T01:25:00.000-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQYKzWEkEBI

Exploration Aqsis blog

2009-12-29T03:36:00.000-08:00

Created Aqsis blog for specifically my exploration with Aqsis.
Regularly posting there..
http://aqsis-renderman.blogspot.com/

A busy week

2009-12-21T23:19:00.000-08:00

This week me and my team are going to be very busy as our Drama theater festival is going from 23.12.2009 to 27.12.2009. My students are also performing Bharatanatyam on stage.. I am very exited. All are new students. Various drama written by KUVEMPU will be performed each day by various theater groups in and around bangalore and karnataka.
Will be posting my 3d related work after this program has been finished.

These are invitations below : (in our language)

Aqsis test - Flame (3)

2009-12-17T09:58:00.000-08:00

Playing with flames..

Aqsis test - DOF (3)

2009-12-17T09:15:00.000-08:00

Aqsis test (9)

2009-12-17T00:27:00.000-08:00

A little sharp shadow.. I think it doesn't requires..

Aqsis test (8)

2009-12-16T05:49:00.000-08:00

Disp test,,

Aqsis test (7)

2009-12-16T04:40:00.001-08:00

Displacement added to Doors & Windows..

Aqsis test (6)

2009-12-16T03:50:00.000-08:00

Forgot to Add displacement to varanda.,

Aqsis test (5)

2009-12-16T03:02:00.001-08:00

Displacement Test with Aqsis

Aqsis test (4)

2009-12-16T00:47:00.000-08:00

Thanks for dreamscapearts (Mosaic Developer) the uv problem is solved :)
Rendertime: 204.930171967 Seconds (got pretty low) :)

Aqsis test (3)

2009-12-15T23:08:00.000-08:00

Changed a light bit..
Added 3rd light for rim effect.
All lights have 512 buffer shadow except primary light having 1024
Screwed up UVs..
Using mosaic's shaders for everything..
Total Rendertime: 431.551064968 Seconds

Aqsis render test (2)

2009-12-15T05:02:00.001-08:00

Left light added..

Renderman (Aqsis) test

2009-12-15T00:28:00.000-08:00

Aqsis test

One more Smoke test

2009-10-19T03:03:00.000-07:00

One more smoke test
http://www.vimeo.com/7139355

Smoke Test

2009-10-16T03:17:00.000-07:00

http://vimeo.com/7095873
for hd version of this video..

Animation.... Animation...

2009-10-04T21:53:00.001-07:00

Blocking stage begun...

SSS shader test

2009-09-10T06:02:00.000-07:00

Previous skin test..

Almost a real skin shader for our character..

Running Shot

2009-09-03T09:31:00.000-07:00

Anil is attacked by a deamon called "Kai devva"..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1IA1XT-VkI

Anil house..

2009-08-31T09:12:00.000-07:00

A Village house in night scene

2009-08-30T03:42:00.000-07:00

AO... and retaining the color of the lamp.. (I think this is better than the below)

Gamma corrected... I think the mood is somewhat lost.. :(

Half colored classroom

2009-08-14T03:35:00.001-07:00

Bus stand

2009-08-14T03:17:00.000-07:00

Bus stand for a shot in series..

Yafaray Test

2009-08-12T07:51:00.000-07:00

No post processing, Yafaray test..

Coconut tree

2009-08-11T09:43:00.000-07:00

Softbody, wind ==> Coconut tree.

house wall

2009-08-11T09:23:00.000-07:00

A Test Video of anil's house wall :)

Click here for high quality version of this clip http://vimeo.com/6052773

KAI DEVVA (A Deamon)

2009-07-27T09:11:00.001-07:00

Anil will be attacked by this deamon...

Graveyard

2009-07-23T06:20:00.001-07:00

Graveyard of a shot..

Matte paint

2009-07-18T05:49:00.001-07:00

Matte painting of a shot..
GIMP rocks.. :)

Anil house

2009-07-18T05:15:00.000-07:00

Anil's house update..

Grass Test

2009-07-17T08:28:00.001-07:00

Anil mother's Farm field.

Anil School

2009-07-16T21:09:00.000-07:00

Our hero "Anil" School from Bird view..

Our hero

2009-07-16T20:51:00.000-07:00

OUR HERO

Name: Anil
Age: 7
Residing at: Kichavadi, Karnataka
Class: 2nd Standard
School: Government Primary school
Staying with: Mother, (Father dead)
Mother occupation: Farming

2009-07-16T20:45:00.000-07:00

Our hero house..

Classroom of Hero

2009-07-16T20:37:00.000-07:00

A typical village School in India, Karnataka। Our hero's school।

Was experimenting with Lux Renderer. And got this :) The renderer is good.. I will use it only for still bg render. Couldn't use it entirely for animation, as render time is very high.

3d Animated series in Blender

2009-07-16T20:32:00.000-07:00

I am doing a animated series entirely using open-source software.

Ubuntu (RT Kernel): OS
Ardour : Sound Related
Blender : 3d
Cinelerra : Editing

Will post WIP..