tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1535368800031044706Thu, 19 Dec 2024 03:28:47 +0000BasicBrand pagesDesignFacebook appsFontsFreeGabsGrzegorz DomaradzkiIllustrationsMakeoverRockstarSocial MediaSocial MunkeeTumblrTypographyawesomefacebook timelinefan pageshttp://gauravratra.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Gaurav Ratra)Blogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1535368800031044706.post-4317299694582094951Tue, 29 May 2012 14:27:00 +00002012-05-29T19:57:05.957+05:30BasicFacebook appsFreeSocial Munkee These days I have been associated with a project called 'Social Munkee' which are "Free & Simple" Facebook applications for all. The creator of these applications is Neeraj Kumar, awesome guy and an awesome developer who works with me in the same company. He had the similar apps available earlier with the name 'Elemental apps' but since facebook made major changes in their dimensions, so http://gauravratra.blogspot.com/2012/05/socially-munkee.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gaurav Ratra)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1535368800031044706.post-5345557105082288942Mon, 28 May 2012 10:07:00 +00002012-05-28T15:39:10.933+05:30DesignFontsTypography Recently I have spend a lot of time looking at awesome typography artwork and tried to find out the basics of typography and tried to familiarize myself to fonts. In this process I found out the reason why Helvetica is the best font when it comes to designer and why designers hate Comic sans. What I have learned is that every font, serif or sans serif signifies something.... a certain http://gauravratra.blogspot.com/2012/05/what-font.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gaurav Ratra)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1535368800031044706.post-2223007757594521606Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:20:00 +00002012-03-23T19:14:14.407+05:30MakeoverSocial MediaTumblr Recently a very famous social media/blogging site Tumblr went through a make over. Tumblr as most of people might not know is a very vast and useful social media platform especially for artists(CGI, Concept, Painters etc.). This platform is time like a tumbler (just like its name) where you can share your own art pieces, thoughts videos and reblog other artist's work as well.... its like a http://gauravratra.blogspot.com/2012/03/tumblr-makeover.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gaurav Ratra)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1535368800031044706.post-5577868978231153054Thu, 01 Mar 2012 07:57:00 +00002012-03-01T13:38:51.111+05:30Brand pagesfacebook timelinefan pages So it has been quite sometime that facebook has implemented the timeline for all the users and have received mixed reviews but like always, every change that facebook brought like layout change in 2007, incorporating chat, pages or much criticized and irritating sideline ticker is not accepted first but later on people get used to of it (as if facebook gives you a choice  :Phttp://gauravratra.blogspot.com/2012/03/facebook-timeline.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gaurav Ratra)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1535368800031044706.post-2418546750100282176Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:26:00 +00002012-03-24T14:16:32.056+05:30awesomeGabsGrzegorz DomaradzkiIllustrationsRockstar   I am desperately waiting to watch Imtiaz ali's new movie Rockstar which released on 11.11.11. The movie looked impressive in the trailers and songs are awesome. Even their illustrated poster look awesome.  It took me quite a hard time to find out the artist who made the posters. The guy behind these illustrated posters is a polish illustration artist called "http://gauravratra.blogspot.com/2011/11/illustrated-rockstar.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gaurav Ratra)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1535368800031044706.post-3700374960847697999Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:50:00 +00002011-11-08T23:20:21.912+05:30 2 months back facebook launched their new timeline feature that is available for only few people right now and nothing is certain when it will be available for the masses but alot of people have started showing their creativity over it.... like 1. Jeremy Bronson 2. Travis Keith 3. Umair Latif 4. Neils Langeveld 5. Robert Falken 6. Andy Hirsch 7. Janet http://gauravratra.blogspot.com/2011/11/facebook-makeover.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gaurav Ratra)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1535368800031044706.post-7300867306073039130Fri, 03 Jun 2011 09:42:00 +00002011-10-18T01:24:13.598+05:30I have been provided one of the most deadliest and greatest mission of all time!!!....... The mission to revive my blog.... and not only to revive it but sustain it and be regular on it. My brother who happens to be a social media marketing manager by profession says: "You dont knw hw to market yourself".... and I agree..... My blog is dead from last 1 year, On twitter, Leap year is more http://gauravratra.blogspot.com/2011/06/greatest-mission-of-all.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gaurav Ratra)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1535368800031044706.post-1579293350150043321Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:24:00 +00002010-01-29T17:14:47.837+05:30Hey Everyone!!!!New Talk of the town now a days is by far the new flick of Dreamworks Animations Studios 2010 release called "How To Train Your Dragon"....The look of the movie is quite amazing.. especially the Dragon... I haven't seen this breed of dragon. and the overall the movie is looking pretty exciting. Vikings and Dragons is a combination never heard about, so it would be exciting to http://gauravratra.blogspot.com/2010/01/hey-everyone-new-talk-of-town-now-days.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gaurav Ratra)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1535368800031044706.post-497271674947045650Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:15:00 +00002010-01-28T17:47:52.693+05:30Hey Everyone!!Its already close to February and I'll be having exams of my graduation in April. It has been almost 3 years since I am pursuing my graduation from Delhi University in English literature and since then People keep on asking me "Why you opted for English literature as a subject?? when you are into animation industry. " And I reply... "Why not??".When I went to Mumbai for working for http://gauravratra.blogspot.com/2010/01/they-ask-me-why-i-say-why-not.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gaurav Ratra)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1535368800031044706.post-874842178507605062Sun, 24 Jan 2010 19:06:00 +00002010-01-27T20:45:08.566+05:30Hey every one!!!The starting of the year has been pretty full of surprises which eventually engrossed me. Strangely got call from few eminent and prominent studios of India, the one in which i applied last 2 last year. :PFunny but true. I got a call from Rhythm and Hues Mumbai.... Yes The Rhythm and Hues which has been associated with some of the big blockbusters like "The Incredible Hulk"(new http://gauravratra.blogspot.com/2010/01/ik-fkfk-ik.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gaurav Ratra)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1535368800031044706.post-6928727939088151658Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:11:00 +00002010-01-06T19:07:53.060+05:30Hey Everyone!!Wishing everybody Happy New Year and Have a Super Duper Ultra Rocking 2010!!!I know that it has been a long time since I have posted anything on my blog or even updated my twitter status, and as my brother says "I don't know how to market myself" and I completely agree with him on that!!. It has been almost 3 years, I came back from Mumbai (The Animation Hub of INDIA) to Delhi and http://gauravratra.blogspot.com/2010/01/hey-everyone-wishing-everybody-happy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gaurav Ratra)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1535368800031044706.post-5671810490620082017Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:17:00 +00002009-07-28T18:37:25.410+05:30Hey everyone!!! This is some of my new artwork I have done in recent months... I hope I am improving Different gestures of hand http://gauravratra.blogspot.com/2009/07/recent-artwork.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gaurav Ratra)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1535368800031044706.post-4079883677800846384Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:59:00 +00002009-07-21T13:00:25.309+05:30When I started learning in animation, we used to look around for animation shorts and clips to get an Idea about the industry. Our Mentor Ben McEvoy told us about a few websites like 10 second club (which is now 11 second club), Animation Meat, Animation Louge etc. From where I came to know about Animation Mentor, an online animation school which is founded by 3 animators working at pixar:Bobby http://gauravratra.blogspot.com/2009/07/free-rigs.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gaurav Ratra)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1535368800031044706.post-4417535492716282453Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:14:00 +00002009-09-12T00:21:33.359+05:30I don't know how I forgot to upload my demo reel in my blog. But better late then never :PMay I now present My Character Animation Demo reel for year 2008-09.I hope this demo reel will help me get a job :PWith experience of 2+ years which includes 1 years and 6 months of working as a freelance animator for few agencies and 1 year of studio experience in one of the eminent animation studios in http://gauravratra.blogspot.com/2009/07/my-demo-reel.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gaurav Ratra)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1535368800031044706.post-2980764700134544758Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:01:00 +00002009-09-12T00:28:20.649+05:30With PIXAR Releasing their new movie "UP", which is already talk of the town. I went down the lane to watch Pixar's Movies and short movies which acts as motivating pill of creativity. One thing which is common in Disney Pixar's Movies (weather 3d or 2d classics) is that no matter how many time you have seen these movies and try to analyse these movies... Somewhere you forget the analysis part http://gauravratra.blogspot.com/2009/07/hats-off-pixar.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gaurav Ratra)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1535368800031044706.post-8430366324356057714Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:33:00 +00002009-07-02T22:12:40.904+05:30Ah!!! At last after such a long time of preparing for the Eng(Hons.) exams and few VIRUS attacks and Operating Software Crashes (Windows) and due to the phenomenon of the Micro blogging (Twitter) which kept me engrossed and away from blogging. Now after a hugh gap of almost 3 months, I have again started animating. Started from the scratch, renewing my basics again like bouncing ball and started http://gauravratra.blogspot.com/2009/06/after-such-long-time.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gaurav Ratra)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1535368800031044706.post-7395093958859179646Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:40:00 +00002009-04-29T23:26:14.204+05:30                                                                                       _________________________________At last I finished in time and submitted 1 hour before the deadline.... lets hope everything goes right. The competition is tough..... INDIA is full of creative people full of ideas and imaginations. That increases the competition level. These are the few of the final images http://gauravratra.blogspot.com/2008/10/final-ones.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gaurav Ratra)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1535368800031044706.post-6363438446993960715Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:45:00 +00002009-04-29T23:07:03.903+05:30Hmm so now I am working on the stick which he will be holding..... which will also show the logo of the website....... the whole Idea was to make it kind of magical... here are some updates and evolution in the design of the magic stick......and Final design looks like this.......and the coloured one looks like this........the workis still in progress lets hope I finish before deadlines..........http://gauravratra.blogspot.com/2008/10/more-updates.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gaurav Ratra)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1535368800031044706.post-6852331862452146114Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:06:00 +00002009-03-02T23:32:59.232+05:30Finally I got time to write this post for the blog as I was busy all these days participating in a competition hosted by a Computer Graphics community forum CG Tantra, It's a competition to design a mascot for the forum.  Therefore I came up with a character who is a old, bald, skinny guy with a long beard, a tantrik.  The context behind the character (Mascot) is  as CG Tantra members are called http://gauravratra.blogspot.com/2008/10/finally-i-got-time-to-write-this-post.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gaurav Ratra)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1535368800031044706.post-6306507693227504744Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:44:00 +00002008-09-08T17:00:31.156+05:30Lip SyncThis was a dialog which i took as an assignment of Lip Sync when i was in process of learning animation.The basic thought which came in my mind when i heard this sound clip was that this guy is very arrogant that's why he calls himself The President and an Emperor. I tried to make Generi (the blue guy) an arrogant guy. I hope i succeeded.Walk CycleThis is a Normal walk which i did using http://gauravratra.blogspot.com/2008/09/lip-sync-this-was-dialog-which-i-took.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gaurav Ratra)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1535368800031044706.post-6755517639262838137Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:43:00 +00002008-08-31T23:43:38.489+05:30Hey !!!  I saw a sneak peek of "Presto", up coming short film with their movie "Wall-E" from Pixar . . . .and wow!! is the word. Check this out!!                                             http://gauravratra.blogspot.com/2008/08/my-old-artwork.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gaurav Ratra)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1535368800031044706.post-3395155670412019548Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:14:00 +00002008-09-01T00:12:42.957+05:30Hey!!! This time I am posting some of my old art work. I am a still a  learner......  hope you all like it!                   Something which i drew from "Cartoon Animation by Preston Blair".                  Beast from Disney's "Beauty and the Beast".                             Spider-man                    Study of hand from "Human Anatomy for Artists"                   Study of foot from "http://gauravratra.blogspot.com/2008/08/my-old-artwork_29.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gaurav Ratra)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1535368800031044706.post-2258663511810099917Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:53:00 +00002008-08-31T17:43:43.302+05:30   Hey!.........I recently saw Dreamworks Kung Fu Panda and it was a very good experience watching this movie. I still have Kung Fu Hangover, the story was well told. The one thing is for sure as far Animation is concerned......Dreamworks is going neck to neck with Pixar. I think there is a competition between Pixar and Dreamworks that who has got better render power, because they all (Pixar, http://gauravratra.blogspot.com/2008/08/its-kung-fu-time_28.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Gaurav Ratra)0