[Music]
the choices I have made have been
defined by an alter-ego sure koa is an
animated short film I have created on
and off along with a day job for four
years creating a CG animated short film
by yourself is an extremely hot pursuit
I shall discuss the making of the film
but first let’s watch the trailer you
understand what it looks like
[Music]
you
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
either family to learn at a paralyzed
father duty Kyra and I had a job I only
had nights and weekends to work on it
and apart from personal challenges there
were a lot of tactical challenges so
I’ll talk about them first let’s meet
mr. 197 a the protagonist of my animated
short film and the architect of my life
so far although my film was created in
four years
mr. 197 a is much older than that he was
born out of an emotional response at the
first day of school he made me cry so
hard that my parents had to escape one
whole year of my school with hot I was
not fit for a school because I was just
crying every day but in this process mr.
197 a my imaginary alter-ego taught me
something you taught me to retain the
first emotional response you ever had in
your life when you face something for
the first time and keep it retain it
most importantly remember it because
that is the only true emotional response
you ever had so mr. 197 a taught me how
to survive during the tough hard gloomy
depressing days of school and college
the 95 route came in school it was not a
job I would have to wake up and spend my
day and God knows what I would attend
the classes I didn’t know what I was
doing there and my teachers scared me to
death
telling me about my bleak future that if
I don’t stir evil I will not find a job
and eventually I will have a bad life
and I agreed I was not very good at
studies the same thing continued in the
college my classmates my France
everyone had a perfect life set for them
they actually knew what they were doing
and that was very scary for me they
really knew that this was alike this is
the kind of job they look at and I would
even everything was perfect then Along
Came mr. 187a my alter ego he told me
that like a superhero you can have a
superpower and you can be dumped in
public
life because you have to save your
identity so at the age of six I started
drawing this is six year old of me who
has made a complete ramayana by himself
at the age of six I researched wrote
illustrated complete Romana and in
theer’s
working everyday for a couple of minutes
I could finish it it’s not too pretty
but it saved my life
in the first few years of school the
next few words were easy because I
continued making my own comics I
continued making my own designs and it
the drawing became my first superpower
but the nine-to-five routine didn’t stop
at school the college was even more
scary
so I started acting I became part of the
drama club
I started acting writing plays and in
the evenings I would spend my nights
making animations so I realized that
animation is probably the place where I
can actually become a true super hue
sort of and college didn’t make any
sense for me so automatically naturally
I thought I should just pursue animation
my brother and mother were very
supportive of me so I found a school in
Singapore and I studied animation there
so everything was good so far I was
liking what I was doing I pursued
animation and then came the first day of
job me and my alter-ego we looked at
each other and it was work at horses it
was like Beiber conspired into a very
intricate plan by the villain and we
realized we were being prepared for a
nine-to-five job all this while we
didn’t even know it school yeah college
okay we used to wake up every day for
what oh this is it and then I realized I
think it’s time to shed off all the
imaginary things from my life it’s time
to start becoming realistic about things
and from that day forward
mr. 197 had disappeared from my life he
was gone
I became fatter slower and timber and I
spent my next three years in a cubicle
and I thought perhaps it’s time to do
something else okay
animation is fine but I should really
find a new superpower it was not coming
back so I started working on a graphic
novel
it was based on mr. 197 days life him
and a boring boring boring silly doing
boring boring boring work right so I
thought of a dystopian City in which
even if you replace people’s had with
these bag heads these paper bags on
their hats nothing would change in their
lives and I thought it’s great it’s
fantastic
so uh I was working on it I was really
liking the graphic novel and my
animation guy II was going fine and then
something happened my greatest friend
and mentor my father he got paralyzed
and he need me back at home he needed me
beside his bed and by this time by this
year of my life arm this came naturally
to me that I should be shutting off
unimportant things from my life it was
very natural so I left the job and I
came back to India and I spent my next
three years without any proper job I
even worked as a video editor my resume
a became obsolete manumission his skills
sunk and things were getting very
depressing because there was no
alter-ego to look after me and I thought
perhaps you know I get like few minutes
per day I should start creating
something graphic novel is not going
anywhere so I started making my
animation short film um based on mr. 197
his life it was coming though and slowly
I realized my leap of faith and plunge
into this jobless Nassif’s and this
sabbatical was not in vain my father
survived three life-threatening
situations during this time and after 11
years of paralysis he is leading a
normal life my mother who started her
writing career at the age of 56 with me
at home she was able to pursue it and
since till date she has got three books
published I am married my college
sweetheart and she came on board as the
producer of mine he made short film so I
thought things are not doing so bad
perhaps it’s time to go against the life
challenges and talk about real animation
let’s make this I made a short film it’s
going though and I started looking for a
job but apparently whatever I was making
I was actually a putting
thing online right everything was a blog
post even if I make a character I make a
design I’d make a 3d model I would put
it online and that caught some attention
and I realized I was getting some job
offers and one of them was actually very
interesting and real a monastery in
India wanted me to create his spiritual
animations while working with the monks
as I said another rarest kind and
undoubtedly
I took the job offer and right now I am
actually working with the monks while my
fellow animators are teaching new
heights in their carriers I’m discussing
my deepest spiritual doubts about
renunciation and the universe with them
and it has given me a new perspective so
personal challenges were gone I was
getting a job so I had some money in my
bank so I could actually work on the
film so the work started and making a CG
animated short film requires some
funding you need a team of people the
process is very elaborate you need a lot
of hardware and you need to have some
licenses for music and just a lot of
things so that means just go through
surreal trivia of Shrieker it’s an
independent film that means it is not
government funded it has no studio
behind it and no army of animators
worked on it it was finished in four
years on one personal computer and it
has 31 sequences and around 246 shots
which is quite ambitious for an animated
short film it has 12 different unique
computer-generated locations and around
25 unique CG characters and the making
while making this film I change three
jobs to countries five houses and I got
married so that’s the trivia the process
is the real deal because whatever you
see on the screen is a separate
department and a big studio like both
Disney or Pixar every department has
hundreds of people so you have a writing
Department which writes a film then you
have storyboards where you take those
designs and character designs and all
the drawings and concept arts and put
them in a storyboard and then you create
the character by bow in which you define
how each created moves or how each
character behaves what kind of ethnicity
do they have how do the talk and after
those character Bibles are done
you
all that information inside 3d
application and extract the polygons by
accepting this polygons you define you
scoped your character and environments
and props but that is just the beginning
and you start painting over time through
some 2d application software some pure
shop or something then you paint them
and then your model is ready now you
have to move it so you have to put bones
inside your character inside the 3d
application and add controls over them
so that each finger can be moved
manually so whatever you see on the
screen is actually moved manually by me
then you have motion capture in which I
would have a suit I would perform and
then all the data is translated into the
application and my theater will form as
I perform in real life then you have an
animation durn and you have effects like
here here it is considered effects fire
smoke dust everything is considered as
effects once that is simulated you take
the information inside the scene which
is called scene assembly and you put
everything you put the camera around
them and then you move your camera shoot
your film like a real live action film
that information is then lit and
rendered rendering means your products
file images those final images are then
taken into a compositing software where
you layer everything make each short
nicer those nicer images go into your
editing application where you edit the
film and then you add sound design which
is again a manual process you record
each everything you hear in she requires
actually manually recorded then you have
to have a taste for music because music
is like the most important thing and
then probably your film is ready for
festival run so the point is you have to
be not just jack-of-all-trades you have
to master them and it requires patience
so there is this a very simple
work-in-progress shot from she’ll go so
the bottom image shows the 3d
application where you have all the
characters and environments and the
camera is laid out and the middle one is
showing the work-in-progress image where
you have your set lit and you have the
models ready for final rendering and
then you have the top image in which you
have the composited version of the image
another example so I feel my initial
rebellion in the years of school
of my experience with a job with acting
the comics my plunge into joblessness
and my graphic novel and my work at the
monastery all of it led to this film
technical part is something that anybody
can learn but these life experiences
actually led to this film
mr. 197 is gone now but he lives in the
film and let me share a video with you
beard
men 197 a journeyed into this beautiful
world of
[Music]
smoked Lebanon cheapness ba-bum helium
Oh
but tomorrow a douche monkey let loose
monkey
[Music]
but tomorrow the architects of perfect
societies will look back and wonder
[Music]
a beelzebub was he hiding or did he
become one
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
beast Oh last year in September at
Lawson it is Short Film Festival and won
the best animated short award and I
realized it’s one of the rarest of any
animated short poems to qualify for the
Oscars of last December it competed with
a lot of big story poems and it did not
make it to the nomination round but I’m
happy that it did something for the
animation industry because I was just a
guy working on the computer I would
never imagined that it would reach this
form the film then burned one of the
highest honors in the computer graphics
industry as a first for India the best
of show at SIGGRAPH Asia so far the film
has been screened and 40 official
international festivals and has burned
17 Awards in them this film is about mr.
197 a and it’s a very personal film so I
feel he is a little exposed but I’m
happy that he’s alive at that film again
I would say if there is one thing he’s
taught me it is to stay unhinged his own
some sell violent because he’s animated
he can do whatever he wants but I
understand what he means he wants me to
retain that first emotional response you
ever had in your life and you face
something retain it keep it remember it
so that it can be channelized into
something more creative
the choices I have made have been
defined by an alter-ego sure koa is an
animated short film I have created on
and off along with a day job for four
years creating a CG animated short film
by yourself is an extremely hot pursuit
I shall discuss the making of the film
but first let’s watch the trailer you
understand what it looks like
[Music]
you
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
either family to learn at a paralyzed
father duty Kyra and I had a job I only
had nights and weekends to work on it
and apart from personal challenges there
were a lot of tactical challenges so
I’ll talk about them first let’s meet
mr. 197 a the protagonist of my animated
short film and the architect of my life
so far although my film was created in
four years
mr. 197 a is much older than that he was
born out of an emotional response at the
first day of school he made me cry so
hard that my parents had to escape one
whole year of my school with hot I was
not fit for a school because I was just
crying every day but in this process mr.
197 a my imaginary alter-ego taught me
something you taught me to retain the
first emotional response you ever had in
your life when you face something for
the first time and keep it retain it
most importantly remember it because
that is the only true emotional response
you ever had so mr. 197 a taught me how
to survive during the tough hard gloomy
depressing days of school and college
the 95 route came in school it was not a
job I would have to wake up and spend my
day and God knows what I would attend
the classes I didn’t know what I was
doing there and my teachers scared me to
death
telling me about my bleak future that if
I don’t stir evil I will not find a job
and eventually I will have a bad life
and I agreed I was not very good at
studies the same thing continued in the
college my classmates my France
everyone had a perfect life set for them
they actually knew what they were doing
and that was very scary for me they
really knew that this was alike this is
the kind of job they look at and I would
even everything was perfect then Along
Came mr. 187a my alter ego he told me
that like a superhero you can have a
superpower and you can be dumped in
public
life because you have to save your
identity so at the age of six I started
drawing this is six year old of me who
has made a complete ramayana by himself
at the age of six I researched wrote
illustrated complete Romana and in
theer’s
working everyday for a couple of minutes
I could finish it it’s not too pretty
but it saved my life
in the first few years of school the
next few words were easy because I
continued making my own comics I
continued making my own designs and it
the drawing became my first superpower
but the nine-to-five routine didn’t stop
at school the college was even more
scary
so I started acting I became part of the
drama club
I started acting writing plays and in
the evenings I would spend my nights
making animations so I realized that
animation is probably the place where I
can actually become a true super hue
sort of and college didn’t make any
sense for me so automatically naturally
I thought I should just pursue animation
my brother and mother were very
supportive of me so I found a school in
Singapore and I studied animation there
so everything was good so far I was
liking what I was doing I pursued
animation and then came the first day of
job me and my alter-ego we looked at
each other and it was work at horses it
was like Beiber conspired into a very
intricate plan by the villain and we
realized we were being prepared for a
nine-to-five job all this while we
didn’t even know it school yeah college
okay we used to wake up every day for
what oh this is it and then I realized I
think it’s time to shed off all the
imaginary things from my life it’s time
to start becoming realistic about things
and from that day forward
mr. 197 had disappeared from my life he
was gone
I became fatter slower and timber and I
spent my next three years in a cubicle
and I thought perhaps it’s time to do
something else okay
animation is fine but I should really
find a new superpower it was not coming
back so I started working on a graphic
novel
it was based on mr. 197 days life him
and a boring boring boring silly doing
boring boring boring work right so I
thought of a dystopian City in which
even if you replace people’s had with
these bag heads these paper bags on
their hats nothing would change in their
lives and I thought it’s great it’s
fantastic
so uh I was working on it I was really
liking the graphic novel and my
animation guy II was going fine and then
something happened my greatest friend
and mentor my father he got paralyzed
and he need me back at home he needed me
beside his bed and by this time by this
year of my life arm this came naturally
to me that I should be shutting off
unimportant things from my life it was
very natural so I left the job and I
came back to India and I spent my next
three years without any proper job I
even worked as a video editor my resume
a became obsolete manumission his skills
sunk and things were getting very
depressing because there was no
alter-ego to look after me and I thought
perhaps you know I get like few minutes
per day I should start creating
something graphic novel is not going
anywhere so I started making my
animation short film um based on mr. 197
his life it was coming though and slowly
I realized my leap of faith and plunge
into this jobless Nassif’s and this
sabbatical was not in vain my father
survived three life-threatening
situations during this time and after 11
years of paralysis he is leading a
normal life my mother who started her
writing career at the age of 56 with me
at home she was able to pursue it and
since till date she has got three books
published I am married my college
sweetheart and she came on board as the
producer of mine he made short film so I
thought things are not doing so bad
perhaps it’s time to go against the life
challenges and talk about real animation
let’s make this I made a short film it’s
going though and I started looking for a
job but apparently whatever I was making
I was actually a putting
thing online right everything was a blog
post even if I make a character I make a
design I’d make a 3d model I would put
it online and that caught some attention
and I realized I was getting some job
offers and one of them was actually very
interesting and real a monastery in
India wanted me to create his spiritual
animations while working with the monks
as I said another rarest kind and
undoubtedly
I took the job offer and right now I am
actually working with the monks while my
fellow animators are teaching new
heights in their carriers I’m discussing
my deepest spiritual doubts about
renunciation and the universe with them
and it has given me a new perspective so
personal challenges were gone I was
getting a job so I had some money in my
bank so I could actually work on the
film so the work started and making a CG
animated short film requires some
funding you need a team of people the
process is very elaborate you need a lot
of hardware and you need to have some
licenses for music and just a lot of
things so that means just go through
surreal trivia of Shrieker it’s an
independent film that means it is not
government funded it has no studio
behind it and no army of animators
worked on it it was finished in four
years on one personal computer and it
has 31 sequences and around 246 shots
which is quite ambitious for an animated
short film it has 12 different unique
computer-generated locations and around
25 unique CG characters and the making
while making this film I change three
jobs to countries five houses and I got
married so that’s the trivia the process
is the real deal because whatever you
see on the screen is a separate
department and a big studio like both
Disney or Pixar every department has
hundreds of people so you have a writing
Department which writes a film then you
have storyboards where you take those
designs and character designs and all
the drawings and concept arts and put
them in a storyboard and then you create
the character by bow in which you define
how each created moves or how each
character behaves what kind of ethnicity
do they have how do the talk and after
those character Bibles are done
you
all that information inside 3d
application and extract the polygons by
accepting this polygons you define you
scoped your character and environments
and props but that is just the beginning
and you start painting over time through
some 2d application software some pure
shop or something then you paint them
and then your model is ready now you
have to move it so you have to put bones
inside your character inside the 3d
application and add controls over them
so that each finger can be moved
manually so whatever you see on the
screen is actually moved manually by me
then you have motion capture in which I
would have a suit I would perform and
then all the data is translated into the
application and my theater will form as
I perform in real life then you have an
animation durn and you have effects like
here here it is considered effects fire
smoke dust everything is considered as
effects once that is simulated you take
the information inside the scene which
is called scene assembly and you put
everything you put the camera around
them and then you move your camera shoot
your film like a real live action film
that information is then lit and
rendered rendering means your products
file images those final images are then
taken into a compositing software where
you layer everything make each short
nicer those nicer images go into your
editing application where you edit the
film and then you add sound design which
is again a manual process you record
each everything you hear in she requires
actually manually recorded then you have
to have a taste for music because music
is like the most important thing and
then probably your film is ready for
festival run so the point is you have to
be not just jack-of-all-trades you have
to master them and it requires patience
so there is this a very simple
work-in-progress shot from she’ll go so
the bottom image shows the 3d
application where you have all the
characters and environments and the
camera is laid out and the middle one is
showing the work-in-progress image where
you have your set lit and you have the
models ready for final rendering and
then you have the top image in which you
have the composited version of the image
another example so I feel my initial
rebellion in the years of school
of my experience with a job with acting
the comics my plunge into joblessness
and my graphic novel and my work at the
monastery all of it led to this film
technical part is something that anybody
can learn but these life experiences
actually led to this film
mr. 197 is gone now but he lives in the
film and let me share a video with you
beard
men 197 a journeyed into this beautiful
world of
[Music]
smoked Lebanon cheapness ba-bum helium
Oh
but tomorrow a douche monkey let loose
monkey
[Music]
but tomorrow the architects of perfect
societies will look back and wonder
[Music]
a beelzebub was he hiding or did he
become one
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
beast Oh last year in September at
Lawson it is Short Film Festival and won
the best animated short award and I
realized it’s one of the rarest of any
animated short poems to qualify for the
Oscars of last December it competed with
a lot of big story poems and it did not
make it to the nomination round but I’m
happy that it did something for the
animation industry because I was just a
guy working on the computer I would
never imagined that it would reach this
form the film then burned one of the
highest honors in the computer graphics
industry as a first for India the best
of show at SIGGRAPH Asia so far the film
has been screened and 40 official
international festivals and has burned
17 Awards in them this film is about mr.
197 a and it’s a very personal film so I
feel he is a little exposed but I’m
happy that he’s alive at that film again
I would say if there is one thing he’s
taught me it is to stay unhinged his own
some sell violent because he’s animated
he can do whatever he wants but I
understand what he means he wants me to
retain that first emotional response you
ever had in your life and you face
something retain it keep it remember it
so that it can be channelized into
something more creative
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