HCL - Ideapreneurs comic

Here are a couple of panels from a comic that I had worked on for HCL's ideapreneur series with ITSA, Delhi. I really appreciate Abhisaar and Vaibhav's help from ITSA, for their support during this project.

The entire anthology can be viewed here. In the link, my comic comes in second, under the title "The Flight of Ideas".

The Trial of 2091 - science fiction book illustration project

I recently had the pleasure of working on a science fiction book illustration project for the soon to be released book " The Trial of 2091 " written by Sarang Gupta.
The website link here might give an idea regarding the contents of the book.

It was quite an exciting project with its own constraints and freedoms, constraints regarding the limitations in the usage of colours and keeping in mind the paper quality on which they were to be printed, and the freedom of visualising the environment and cityscape of the time period that I was dealing with here - a futuristic utopia.

The following are among the final illustrations for the book:

The following were my explorations for the cover design for the book:

This is the final cover of the book:

This is the debut novel of science fiction enthusiast Sarang Gupta, I really look forward to more great stuff coming from him.

Concept Art - book illustration project

This is concept art for a very fascinating science fiction book illustration project that I had had the pleasure of working on. I'll upload links to the book once it is up online.

Illustration for Joydhaak - July 2014

This is an illustration that I've worked on for a story for the new issue of Joydhaak. It is a touching story of a meeting between a street dog and a beggar girl and their sharing of a meal found on the road.

Steampunk! - 2 (coloured)

Here's a coloured version of the sketch that was posted earlier.

Steampunk! - 2

Steampunk!

"Steamboy" is a film that I won't be forgetting anytime soon. These are some sketches that I worked on which are very influenced by the film. I will be putting up a few more explorations and a coloured illustration in a couple of days.

Tantrics of Old - Book Cover

I recently had the pleasure of illustrating the book cover for my friend, Krishnarjun Bhattacharya's debut novel "Tantrics of Old". It is a dystopian narrative, set in Kolkata, India, where demons roam free and angels rise from their ashes.

The book is set to be launched on the 30th of May, 2014. I wish him the very best. The pre-order links are up on flipkart :  http://www.flipkart.com/tantrics-of-old/p/itmdvzw8qufnjggz?pid=9788172345228

Showreel 2014

This is my showreel compiling most of my animation work from the past few months. Do give it a look!

"Noh"

I have been lately watching a bit of anime on the side and couldn't resist trying out animating an action sequence of my own. I created a character called "Noh" who is a ninja who dons a Japanese theatre Noh mask. I've always found "Noh" masks pretty creepy due to the absence of humanity in the character's faces. Here are some stills of the film given below:

       

   

                           

Getting feedback from friends and family while working is very beneficial, especially in an endeavour such as this, wherein this being a personal project, it would have failed to take into account the audience who might be viewing it later. I changed the colour scheme and a number of shots even after I had completed animating them, based on feedbacks from my friends, Krishnarjun Bhattacharya and Shravan Arvind, and also my family.

United Nations Development Programme - The Water Seekers

I had worked with film-maker Diya Banerjee, on one of her projects funded by the UNDP on ways to tackle water scarcity in rural areas by employing common sense methods rather than using elaborate technology.

The documentary, "The Water Seekers" is a very commendable effort by her with regards to enlightening people about the troubles faced by our farmers in securing their livelihood. I had the pleasure of animating two sequences for her documentary to illustrate the concepts of water saving techniques. Though simplistic science diagrams would have sufficed, I wanted to go one step ahead in livening up the scenarios using organic transitions between each new method of water conservation.

1st sequence illustrating the different types of water harvesting structures:

2nd sequence illustrating the practices which lead to the depletion of water reserves in an area

The full film is up here on vimeo:

Working with Ms. Diya Banerjee was a great experience and I would like to wish her all the best with her future endeavours.

"Raanjhanaa" : logo animation for Colour Yellow Pictures Pvt. Ltd.

Last year, I had the pleasure of working on the logo animation for the opening sequence of the Hindi feature film "Raanjhanaa". Colour Yellow Pictures is a newly formed production house which debuted with this feature film starring one of the most prominent leading actors in Tamil cinema today, Dhanush.

The name of the production house being Colour Yellow, I decided to use actual coloured powder "rangoli" to animate the sequence. The final outcome is as given below.

Colour Yellow Pictures Ltd. intro from DipankarSengupta on Vimeo.

I was overwhelmed by the fact that one of the most gifted people in world music today, Mr. A R Rahman later composed the music for the final track of the animation. I came up with the concept of unity and oneness with nature based on the Japanese concept of "Enso" after having come across their logo.

The animation that I had used for pitching my concept of "Enso" is as given below:

Mr. Harsshil R Patel was instrumental in the post production and packaging of the final product and also for guiding me through the entire process of executing the desired animation.

Animation Sequence Project - Bookworm

The Animation Sequence Project is an unique co-creation project featuring the world's greatest animation artists.

Creative minds from all over the world are invited to create a short piece of animation. The only requirement for the content of animation is that it starts and ends with a 250 pixel square in the exact middle of the screen.

This is my entry for the Animation Sequence Project, wherein I explored the different worlds within a book of tales.

Music : Nethis - Fell out of the Sky

Its up on their website : http://animationsequence.com/entries/dipankar-d-sengupta/

countdown2convo

This is a short promo I animated for my college convocation, where we decided to make an artwork/animation a day to countdown to the date of convocation. This is a humourous take on one of my friends and animation colleague, Jasjyot.

Song track : Knaan - Somalia

This video is not intended for commercial use. No copyright infringement is intended.

For a better view, here are some other links:

Showreel (2012)

This is my showreel, compiling most of my work done during my animation course at NID, Ahmedabad.
Music : Zapac - Test Drive

for a better view, its on vimeo: https://vimeo.com/53586875

Loopdeloop - Bang

This was my entry for this month's Loopdeloop competition, the theme being "Bang!"

The loop follows the tale of a bullet through a cowboy saloon...

The video is up at vimeo: https://vimeo.com/53160057

It is up on their website:  http://www.loopdeloop.org/2012/11/dipankar-sengupta-bang/

Classroom Project - A father's promise

I finally have managed to complete my classroom project at NID after a long long wait. It wouldn't have been possible without the help of a lot of people - colleagues, faculty and family. Here are a few stills from the project, will put up the link for the film soon.

Synopsis : This is a story of the manifestation of a father-son relationship despite all odds.

Here are some snapshots from the film.

I have uploaded my film on vimeo, here is the link to it: https://vimeo.com/51776390

Abhibashi Magazine Cover

This was a cover that I drew for a bi-annual Bengali magazine "Abhibashi".

The theme for the magazine for this session is "Theater" and with Durga Puja just around the corner, they required me to incorporated some element of that as well into the drawing. I made two versions of it. This one is the final version, the one that I finally submitted to the editors with the proposed layout.

However, things didn't quite go as planned with the publishers due to some miscommunication and the final printed version looks like this.

In the previous version, I had tried to use the Tholpavakoothu shadow puppet art form and use that to show bring out the subject. However, I wasn't very happy with the result and decided to rework on it.

I made this one using acrylics and photo inks, and detailed the puppets with a ball pen. On a personal note, I must admit that the puppets which are actually used for the plays in Kerala, are much more detailed than what I could hope to portray in my version of them.

Art Exhibition at Darpan art Gallery

I had my first Art Exhibition today at Darpan Art Gallery off S.B Road, here in Pune. It started on the 25th of July and will wrap up by the 31st. The exhibition was inaugurated by Mr. Anil Awachat and renowned painter Murli Lahoti. Murli Lahoti's work can be seen at this website http://murlilahoti.com/

I had the good fortune of meeting the renowned artist Mr. Milind Mulick (http://www.milindmulick.com/)
who dropped in for the exhibition today.
The Exhibition was organised by my diploma project Sponsorers Mr. Rothindra Nath Chowdhry and Ms. Dickiy Chowdhry.

These are the artworks that I put up at the exhibition, please do take a look. I made the illustrations with a black Cello-gripper ballpen.

1. a peaceful evening

2. away from home

3. bad santa

4. nightmares

5. the apple orchard

RGB 2012

I had made this poster for RGB 2012. I didn't send this finally because I wasn't too happy with the outcome of it.