Competition : “Mono Acting”

This Saturday on 27^th March, 2010, we had organized competition called “Mono Acting”, it was an open competition for the students of Tekhnix and many of them showed interest in this. They had to submit their individual acting video clip and the selection of the winner was based on their performance, dialogs (i.e. their script), their body language and all. Many students had enthusiastically participated in this competition.

The winner of the competition are as below.

First Winner : Himanshu Bariya

Here the act is about a character who is a 'Street Thugs'. The clip is about his discussion of a boy where some one has visited to stay on rent. After some time a “Banarasi” policeman enter the scenario and started asking him about his life. The 'Street Thugs' tells him how his life changed from time to time and how a happy and beautiful family got destroyed, how he become 'Street Thugs'. By character he was nice person he helps the poor boy named “Sonu”, so that he can achieve higher education.

This character is like coin which has to sides. In this clip these characters were all depicted by Himanshu only.

Himanshu Bariya's Acting Clip for Competition from Tekhnix Studios on Vimeo.

Second Winner : Karansinh Parmar

Act-1

His act was about one fraud employee of a company actually the situation was that he had cheated his company because his mother was not well, and he wanted money for the treatment. When his boss comes to know about the fraud he was fired out and later he realized his mistake, felt guilty. So Karan tried to enact the fraud person with expressions of guilt and sorrow.

Karansinh Parmar's Acting Clip-1 for Competition from Tekhnix Studios on Vimeo.

Act -2

Here the acting depicts that a teenager boy relaxing and listening to songs and reading

a magazine, gets a sudden shock when he comes to know that her beloved dumps him due to some reason. So, he was trying to convince her by reminding her all the moment spent together and giving her moral support by making her believe that he will always be with her. But she dined the to listen and kept the phone down. So here Karan has enacted for the teenager boy, expressing shock and sorrow of getting separated from her beloved.

Karansinh Parmar's Acting Clip-2 for Competition from Tekhnix Studios on Vimeo.

Third Winner : Narendra Singh

The act is based on a poor man who is very naughty and who has never seen any pleasures in life. He owes his own life and lives a care free life. The clip shows him arguing and passing comments to the owner of tea stall, when he does not received the tea, when he has asked for. Here Narendra has enacted the poor man's role.

Narendra Singh's clip for Acting competition from Tekhnix Studios on Vimeo.

English and Personality Development lectures

Getting employed in a good organization is increasingly being associated to job seeker's ability to speak fluent and correct English. Therefore Spoken English Courses are gaining much popularity in every big and small town in India. English speaking skills are today of great value to anyone who wishes to be successful in this highly competitive world.

Spoken English skills are especially required if you are willing to work in transnational or multinational companies or international organizations. In fact, completion of spoken English courses can always give an edge over others even in various domestic organizations. Fluency in English is in fact required in most other organizations. If you are working in a school or a college, you are always expected to set an example by being an effective communicator.

So taking this to notice Tekhnix has started English and Personality Development lectures, for the students of Tekhnix who all take active interest in this. The classes are conducted by our director Mr. Jitendra Vaghani. Lectures are conducted every Saturday as it is considered activity day at Tekhnix.

Competitions on “ Best out of waste”

As every weekend Tekhnix organizes different competitions on various topics. This Saturday we had organized competition called “ Best out of waste”. In this, student have to collect all kind of waste material and by using it they will have to make some useful thing. They were allowed to participate in the competition individually or in group and they were given two hours time and by this time they will have to finish their work. Winner will be selected based on their creativity, concept, use of waste material, finishing of work etc. In this competition students get chance to learn how to use such material and to get their best use out of it.

The winner of the competition are as below,

First winner :

Group-1 ( Included students of Batch-B)

( Pankaj Vaghela, Karansinh Parmar, Dipen Majmundar, Anandraj Dave, Kintan Patel)

They had made Fish and Photo frame. To make fish they had used pipes, used in medical purpose for saline. Second thing which they made was “Photo frame” created out of hard board, silver foil paper, resin etc.

Second winner :

Group-2 (Included students of Batch-A)

Uday Jataniya & Sneha Sodha

They are the students pursuing Specialization in Dynamics,so they had decided to make a game called “Jumping Monkey”, which followed the dynamics effects like gravity and force. To make this game they had used the material like waste box, plastic broom sticks, clips from box, etc. First they had made one tree out of the box then, according to proportion they prepared small monkeys, using ruff materials of the same, then they started to make “Catapult” (A catapult is a device used to throw or hurl a projectile a great distance without the aid of explosive devices). In this game,one has to throw the catapult on the tree by proper judgment of force.

Third winner :

Group-3 (He was an individual Candidate)

Narendra Singh

He had decided to make a pen stand and for that he had used waste materials like ruff news paper, glue, a thick coat made of flour,

Digital Painting

"Digital Painting" & "Speed Painting" By Priyanka Goswami (Concept Artist & Matte Painter at Tekhnix Studios)

Hello everyone, I decided to make two tutorials over Speed Painting and Digital Painting since some people have asked for tips and tricks for these things. I hope these short tutorials help you to understand the techniques and treatments of both areas. I use Photoshop CS 4 and Wacom pen tablet for both paintings. Please note that this is my very first attempt at making tutorial, so hope you all like these.

What is "Digital Painting"

Digital painting is an emerging art form in which traditional painting techniques such as watercolor, oils, impasto, etc. are applied using digital tools by means of a computer, a digitizing tablet and stylus, and software. Traditional painting is painting with a physical medium as opposed to a more modern style like digital. The artist uses painting techniques to create the digital painting directly on the computer. All digital painting programs try to mimic the use of physical media through various brushes and paint effects. Included in many programs are brushes that are digitally styled to represent the traditional style like oils, acrylics, pastels, charcoal, pen and even media such as airbrushing.

Digital painting thrives mostly in production art. It is most widely used in conceptual design for film, television and video games. Digital painting software such as Corel Painter, Adobe Photoshop, ArtRage, GIMP, and openCanvas give artists a similar environment to a physical painter: a canvas, painting tools, mixing palettes, and a multitude of color options.

Tutorial - Digital Painting- "ITALIAN MAFIA BOSS"

Stage - 1

Open new document. Fill the background layer with a dark color( Grey, Dark blue etc.) if u want. Create a new layer. Prepare a for your painting. Rename the new layer to "Outline". I decide to paint a portrait of a Italian Mafia Boss as my subject this time.

Stage - 2

Now create another layer and named it colors. Manage your color palette according to subject in this layer.

Stage - 3

Now create a new layer and named it "Skin". Start filling colors. I paint the forehead, nose and chick using basic light and shade. This time because of I want to create a portrait of an Italian, I have to study the facial features, skin colors of Italian people. So, I used light orange, Brown, Red as the base color of the skin. Try to keep the brush strokes according to the face surface to create the volume.

Stage - 4

Then I blend the colors with smudge tool and also use some more light yellow/orange color for the highlighted area.

Stage - 5

Use some light green, brown, red at forehead and chick for skin color and smudge it properly.

Stage - 6
Now paint the wrinkle with light orange color.

Stage - 7

Create a new layer and named it "Hair_Innercoat". I used Grey for the base color of hair.

Stage - 8

Now add some dark grey/black color over the hair and also for the inner coat.

Stage - 9

Again in the "skin" layer I add some dark brown strokes at the chick for a feel of age. Observe the wrinkles of eye. Try to maintain the muscle flow properly.

Stage - 10

I add white and purple color on the "skin" layer.

Stage - 11

Now I paint a portion of BG with Grey and blend the colors of "Skin" layer.

Stage - 12

Let's paint the overcoat now. First of all create a new layer, named it "overcoat" , paint the area with shape green color. I used cross hatch strokes (for fur).

Stage - 13

I used light green strokes for highlight and Dark green strokes for shadow areas of the overcoat.

Stage - 14

Now paint the hair and beared with white/light Grey color in "Hair_Innercoat" layer.

Stage - 15

Add a few details to hair by adding a layer over "Hair_Innercoat" layer, make it multiply(from blending mode), paint it with a grey tone and set the layer opacity to 50%. I add sunglasses with reflections and paint the collar of the shirt. Some extra detail of the skin also added.

Stage - 16

Add detail to the sunglasses and the innercoat.

Stage - 17

Now paint the overcoat's inside with brown color and modified the grey color in BG.

Stage - 18

Finally add a toothpick in his mouth and finish it.

Final Image

Speed Painting

What is "Speed Painting"

Speed Painting is an exercise, primarily digital, in which one paints on a time budget, using already developed methods to create a piece. Contrary to (somewhat) popular belief, "Speed Painting" is not the same as a time-lapse video of a painting. Speed Painting is a widely used term in the Entertainment industry, often amongst Concept Artists.

Its popularity on the internet was drastically increased with YouTube videos featuring fan-paintings by digital artists like Nico Di Mattia. Technically these videos were not speedpainting, though they helped publicize the practice. An example of a traditional speedpainter would be the late Denny Dent, who made a name for himself painting 4' x 6' portraits of famous rock stars from start to finish during the course of a single song. Sadly, before Denny died, he had trained only one Student, Brian Olsen of Art in Action. Brian has continued to carry on Denny's belief that the painting was secondary. The message was most important. "It's not what you do, but the way you do it that's important. Whatever you do... do it with all your heart. Be what you are... be creative!" A follower in Dent's footsteps would be Dan Dunn who also creates large scale paintings set to music in relatively short periods of time(typically 3-7 minutes).

Raw speed painting is akin to the "Alla Prima" method of traditional fine artists, in which there is no sketch or underpainting (which are found in Di Mattia's paintings). It is about using value, color, texture, and composition to create a compelling and narrative piece within a relatively narrow timeframe. The pieces usually have an "unpolished" appearance, which stresses the importance of every stroke made on the canvas, digital or otherwise.

A Short Tutorial -

SPEED PAINTING- "PARADISE"

Stage - 1

Open a new document. Fill the background layer with a color of your choice ( I preferred Dark Grey) . Create a new layer. Prepare a simple sketch for your painting. Rename the new layer to "Outline". I decide to paint a simple seascape for my subject.

Stage - 2

Now create another layer and named it colors. Manage your color palette according to subject in this layer.

Stage - 3

Now create a new layer and named it "Cliff_to_water". Start filling colors. I started with the cliff and add very little details to it. Remember that you are starting to paint a speed painting which is basically used for concept level works. So without adding details I want to capture just the mood of the subject.

Stage - 4

After the cliff I started to paint the seashore by using a pale yellow and Turkish blue( for the wet part of the sand) color.

Stage - 5

Then fill the water part of the scene with Turkish blue color.

Stage - 6

For the waves I used a light blue color on highlighted area. The Sun is the source of light, the only main light source in real life. Its easier to add light to the shadows, that is why I use a darker Background( Grey layer) for painting.

Stage - 7

Now add some shadows under the waves to fill it like real. Also add some lines for water effect.

Stage - 8

Create a new layer for the sky( also named it with the same), and paint it with the same color used in water. Placed the layer under the "Cliff_to_water" layer.

Stage - 9

With light blue color I paint clouds and blend some areas with smudge tool.

Stage - 10

Duplicate the sky layer, go to Image menu, Adjustments, select Desaturate. create a layer mask by click on add layer mask icon below the layers table and by using gradient tool, make it partially transparent. I add a rock in dark color and a coconut leaf in foreground for add depth to the view.

Final Image

Finally I add some small human figures with lower detail, some seagulls and some boats to the scene and do some color corrections for final image. Enjoy :)

Live Action + CG Test

Live Action footage + CG character Composting


Here is one of the Test with Making:

Mogembo Test: Live Action + CG (with Making) Tekhnix Studios Research Group Project from Tekhnix Studios on Vimeo.

Here are some of the Stop Motion Tests Done by students at Tekhnix Studios:

Good Night: Stop Motion Animation Test Tekhnix Studios Student Work from Tekhnix Studios on Vimeo.

Golly: Stop Motion Animation Test Tekhnix Studios Student Work from Tekhnix Studios on Vimeo.

Football: Stop Motion Animation Test Tekhnix Studios Student work from Tekhnix Studios on Vimeo.

Rope Pulling: Stop Motion Animation Test Tekhnix Studios Student work from Tekhnix Studios on Vimeo.

Some of the Stop Motion Models from Tekhnix Studios: