Yet another basic claymation exercise November 27, 2007
Posted by Rahul Razdan in Claymation.2 comments
Two posts in a row and I am sure you still haven’t seen these:
A 360 degree swirl
A short love story
Brokeback Claymation
Now presenting the last of the first batch — I promise :) — of my once upon a time (circa 2006) wannabe attempts at claymation (but is actually only stop-motion animation).
How this is different from its prequel (A360DS) is that here the protagonist (Ramaswamy) remains fixed at its spot — while the camera does a 360 degree parikrama around it. A technique pioneered by the Wachowski brothers and John Woo in Matrix and Mission Impossible series of films respectively — and taken to new heights by Ekta Kapoor in Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi when Tulsi shot her son Ansh :-D
Don’t worry I am not going to subject you to another camera technique Ekta Kapoor popularized in India — the mother-of-melodrama rapid zoom-ins-and-outs!
Unless you ask for it :-p
A basic claymation exercise November 17, 2007
Posted by Rahul Razdan in Claymation.2 comments
I am sure you never saw these:
A short love story
My first claymation film
Unless you happened to be one of the unfortunate few who I somehow or the other bulldozed/bullshitted/bribed/begged/beseeched into going through these :)
When I had started my experiments with clay modelling, I was sure my claymation avocation was just history-in-the-making. Today more than a year and a half later, it is just history :(
So instead of letting that go waste, why not subject you, unsuspecting readers to some of my early forays into claymation.
Strictly speaking this is not claymation — just stop-frame animation of clay figures. Maybe the first few rungs of a tall ladder, I never did climb!
In this particular case, the camera remains constant but the subject is moved around 360 degrees. In an earlier film I had tried another technique — where the camera is moved around 360 degrees while the subject remains constant at the centre of the circle. Best seen in Matrix and Mission Impossible.
Ek tooth. Ache tooth November 7, 2007
Posted by Rahul Razdan in Humour, Language.10 comments
This conversation took place a little over three months ago when I had an impacted wisdom tooth surgically removed. Wincing in pain, over the next few days, I had put up a suitable ’status’ message on my email/chat. Niyam saw that ’status’ message and initiated this conversation. Proof that we indeed are a ’status’ conscious society :-p
(Even though the hehes, heehees, hahas are all original, you should see them as the equivalent of canned laughter in television comedies… if you see no humour otherwise)
niyam: ever since you’ve published your line ‘the tooth shall prevail’ my wife has developed some tooth problem and visiting the dentist everyday, and my mom also developed another problem. All Co-inciDENTALLY, eh?
me: Did they visit a doctor? My APOLLOji’s :)
niyam: heheheheheee
wicked!
when your teeth hurt, it needs GUMption to visit the dentist
me: actually it should have been –The TOOTH shall pre-WAIL!
niyam: heheheheee
yes, please change that
me: been there Daant that!
niyam: ufff!!! you and your Daante’s divine comedy
me: hehe
niyam: heheheeee
and when you need courage
you need diler
diler mehndi
me: :-) (Driller Mehndi!)
niyam: Tooth Tooth Tooth toothi iya
me: actually..it is — Toothache, toothache, toothache, tootiya….hey jamalo!
this one fits well
niyam: yup!
trust you to drill it in
me: mere Toothey drill ke tukdey!
niyam: you know the secret and the raaz of this
no wonder you are the
me: Razdaant?
niyam: Ra Howl Raaz Daant
me: :-D
me: dang! i cant even grin properly.. can’t open my mouth fully :-D
niyam: okay okay okay
time for you to get inspired for your next masterpiece at swadeshe
math teacher: what comes after 69? student: mouth-wash.
me: I have enough fodder for the next few months!
hahaha
niyam: 32 chambers of Shaw Lin: dentist report on manek shaw
heheheeee
me: haha
and what do u call teeth marks on a person’s ass?
niyam: ?
me: Butt-teesi
niyam: heheheeeeeeeeeeeee
the history of dentistry: Toothpast.
heheheheeee
me: and those guys who make tonnes of money drilling into people’s teeth?
hahaha past
Denture Capitalists!
niyam: heheheee
uff! rahul! ccchhhaa gaye
let’s have it on swadeshe PLEASE
me: hehe… lemme see
niyam: what do you call your mother’s brother in Antarctica were he a furry animal? Molar Bear
me: hahaha
What did the dog tell the bitch, to be invited to her place?
niyam: ?
me: Canine come over to your place, tonight?
niyam: yup
her address: K9, Bitch Alley
hehehee
me: hehe
Ok… whats with YOUR status message?
niyam: true.
screwed with work. this is comic relief before i go into the mince meat machine again
sigh!
ok lemme get back to work
And to all of you who have to get back to doing better things, after this “comic relief”, a very big thank you. Psst… The relief was all mine :-p
