Showing posts with label Shilo Shiv Suleman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shilo Shiv Suleman. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Padma

Padma, the apsara of the lotuses. 


Thursday, March 3, 2011

The Earth Laughs in Flowers

Jasmine.
More details on her sooooon :) 
the original sketch


Here's character that's a mix of a flower and old indian actresses/dancers.
There are 5-6 such characters. Each of them is based on a different flower. 
this particular one is jasmine and I'm just about done with her. But I need + want some feedback!!
Basically I've been trying to give her a waxy-white jasmine kinda feel. Very few other colours and almost an ethereal glow. I'd like her to feel like she's fragrant almost.


The main inspiration for these have been the apsaras (in the previous post)
Old hindi actresses and Mata Hari :) 

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Back in Black

Lets do a Recap Shall we? :)

Khoya is an interactive fantasy novel for children Illustrated, Animated, Conceptualized
and partly written by me.
What makes it interactive is that is uses a technology called Augmented Reality to bridge the gap between the tangible (a book) and the technological.
It also bridges my two loves (amongst many)- animation and print.
How it does this is that the book has a variety of 'markers' or symbols with limericks on how to use them, the reader, while reading a page, picks up these markers and brings it to their webcam, and using visual recognition the marker triggers off an animation in real time. So in a sense one 'brings the book to life'.
Using this technology one can become different characters in the book, unlock riddles or simply watch as the illustrations in the book start to move. :)
A User-interaction Video coming soon. But here are some spreads from chapter 1 for now.
It's designed for children above the age of 12.


Credit Roll:

Original concept, Illustration, Animation and Design by Shilo Shiv Suleman

Augmented Reality, programming and further conceptualization
Dhruv Nawani
Anders Sandell

Written by Shilo Shiv Suleman and Avijit Michael with inputs from Hari Adivarekar.

Contributers and Conceptualizers

Nilofer Suleman, Arshia Sattar, Molly and Maya, Anders Sandell, Ampat Varghese, Gayatri Ganju, Kunal Sen, Vani Sreekanta, Mana Dhanraj and the Toys Lab