Figure Drawing
20 minutes
30 minutes
20 minutes
Sketches made with graphite pencils on gray tinted sheets and white dry pastel for hightlights.
Hand Studies
Hand studies done by observing life. I love drawing hands because next to the eyes, it’s the hands of an individual that speak on his/her behalf.
Animal Drawing
Animal drawings from observation. The tiger (watercolour) and the giraffe (red pencil) are done using references.
Landscape Drawing
Landscape Drawing done with blue and purple pens. I like sketching thumbnails of landscapes in pen. Pen gives a solid feel and cannot be erased or smudged.
Gesture Drawing
Gestures done in different mediums (pen, pencils, charcoal). All the sketches are 30 sec - 5 minutes.
Storyboard Animatics
Basic storyboard for my upcoming 2D film ‘Dive’. A film about fat friendly misfit man, trying to mix with a bunch of five-year-olds. It is a 35 second gag which is going to be done in 2D animation. This storyboard is done keeping in mind the essence of the story and an efficient way to communicate it. Storyboarding is one of my favourite subjects because it gives me a chance express my stories, and I can draw out the frames the way I imagine the shots in my film. Click HERE for the animatics. (W.I.P)
Storyboard Animatics SC 1
SC 7
On the left are thumbnails of my storyboard for a project ‘Ud Jayega Hans Akela’. Click on the thumbnails to view the storyboard animatics. As mentioned on the Character Design Page, On the right is my storyboard for ‘The Missing Ball’, a story provided to us for learning the pre-production pipeline (Storyboarding, Character Design and Backgrounds)
Backgrounds and Layouting
Original sketch of the pan
Thumbnail sketches experimenting with the story’s landscapes
Sketch with final treatment for film
As described in the ‘Character Design’ page, “The Missing Ball” is a story we were provided with for this course as well. So we had to design the landscape and a pan shot of the background. This was my learning process.
Backgrounds and Layouting
A temple pan made by Alok N.R and I, for our group project “Ud Jayega Hans Akela�. This starts at 3 fields and zooms out to 15 fields, where the character travels over the river. The references for the pan were taken from Haridwar.
Backgrounds and Layouting
Above is the final pan, which moves from right to left along with the character’s movement, and tilts upwards to huge tree around which he climbs. The pan is 5 fields wide and 2 fields tall. Each field is of a 9 field dimension. It is done on photoshop using a Wacom Intuos4 tablet. The pan on the left was the original final pencil sketch before the changes were made in the character animation.
Background Pan for a scene in our group project/film ‘Ud Jayega Hans Akela’. I was incharge of the backgrounds and layouts. In this scene the character moves from the bottom right from a flowing river and moves left towards the big tree and climbs it. Click HERE to watch the linetest.
Character Design - Raghu
During this course we were provided a story called “The Missing Ball”. The story is about a boy and his dog looking for their football. 3 characters had to be designed. The boy, his dog, and a monster. This was the design I’d made for the boy - Raghu.
Character Design - Kalu
This was my design for the boy’s dog, Kalu. Kalu is quick, alert, adventurous and smart. I tried to learn character design through different processes like strong-silhoutte, shapes and forms, and form follows function.
2D Animation
(Basic and Advanced Kinematics)
Weightlift
Wave-boat-sack
Frog Jump
Box-fold
Walk-cycle
‘Trajedy’ - 2d
These are some of the 2D assignments we had in our first and second semesters in Animation. These are the ones I enjoyed doing most. Trajegy was my 2D gag using the rice sack as my character, interact with a prop (flask). Click on the thumbnails to play.
2D Animation
(Basic and Advanced Kinematics)
Pendulum
Seaweed
Jumping rice-sack
Lipsynch
Travelling Line
Balloon
Bouncing Ball
Bowling Ball
These were some of the other basic assignments we practiced during the Kinematics courses. Click on the thumbnails to play.
Illustrations
Illustrations speak out stories, and that’s why they’re so special. These are some of my illustrations. I love to explore the different mediums in which stories can be told. What I like best about illustrations is that there is no right or wrong way to make them. What works is great.
Caricatures
Rohan saraf
(a friend who loves coffee)
Brad Pitt
Quentin Tarantino
Caricatures of people I know and like! Making caricatures of people helps me understand and observe certain features on a face. What takes more, is learning how much to exaggerate and which features to exaggerate.
Short Films A Pig Story A story about a pig, who helps a girl meet her aspirations. This project was made by Me, Alok N.R and Vicky Punjabi during Vaibhav Kumaresh’s Claymation course, where we learnt to handle a medium other than 2d. Pre-production and Production were done in 10 days. (Duration: 2 minutes 57 seconds)
Nest
Click on the thumbnails to play.
A day in the life of an ordinary girl, depicted to highlight one’s perception of life. This film was made by Me, Pooja Lakwal, Poulomi Mehta and Madhuwanti Vaidya for ‘Still in Motion’, a short-film making competition at Quasar, M.I.T’s annual fest. The theme of the competition was the music track used in the film, which won second place. (Duration: 3 minutes 56 seconds)
Photography
All photographs are unedited.
Photography
Photography
Curriculum Vitae educational qualification 10th ICSE (Sharada Mandir School, Goa) 12th Arts (Dhempe Higher Secondary, Goa) presently studying Animation Film Design (3rd Year) at MIT Institute of Design, Pune. recent achievements nominee for ‘Photoflare 2011’, an international photography competition. won second place at shortfilm-making competition 'Still in Motion' at Quasar 2011 (MIT Institute of Design, Pune) won second prize for Cartooning at Waves '09(BITS Pilani, Goa) Participated and qualified in NEF Enduro K2S - an adventure race of 27 kms. involvement editor and one of the founders of HiVE - MIT's newsletter. You can see the latest issue HERE. event organizer (Grafoot-i) for Quasar '09 and 2010 (MIT Institute of Design, Pune) software skills Adobe Photoshop, Flash, Premier, After Effects, Illustrator, InDesign, and Maya 09. Comfortable using Wacom graphic tablet. interests/strengths storyboarding, character design, character animation. passions photography, films, books, music, sports.
contact Nikhita Prabhudesai 22nd Oct 1990 phone: +91 9370675700 email: nikki_2290@hotmail.com