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I had seen Marcos Oliveira's Scientific Illustration about a year ago in a feature by behance called : illustrationserved. I was impressed by his subtle and soft colors and seeing him working on location with his sketchbook and watercolors. I had thought about sharing his work through the blog post. I bookmarked the site and forgot about it.(this is a habit, I keep bookmarking a lot of stuff but hardly go back to see my bookmarked list) any way here I am writing about it. good things always, stick some where at your back of mind. I wanted know more about Marcos Oliveira and googled for it. The first thing which appears in the search is a professional mixed martial artist from Brazil of the same name. Then I found his blog   according to profile description :  He is from Lisbon, Portugal. Born in 1967 at Santa Maria da Feira "Professional illustrator since 1994, specializing in scientific illustration, biological and archaeological as well as ...

It was a pleasant piece of information I chanced upon. I was surfing the net for some visual research on "Art style and Games". There I came across a game called " a Little Turbulence " which reminded me a mobile game I was working on and was left unfinished due to fund crunch. I felt a little bad because the game had the potential, if given the right push could have been a good play. I moved on. almost forgot about it and was busy in new work environment, a different kind of set up. I could not keep the discovery of  ALT with me, I shared the link with my previous boss. The surprise was from him, he sent me mail about the publishing of the game on both platforms iPhone and Android. Though the game they published is not polished, the fact is they got it out and the story is exciting. and I like the music they have done. there was only a generic loop in demo version with place holder noise effects. here is the Game summary: The Cloud Catcher mobile game...

Is this me? or other people also think the same?? Times of India has become official paper of Advertisements. I am sure many other people must have similar thoughts. When I pick up the TOI from my door it is bulky, and this bulk hardly has reading material. Now a days I have to struggle through a lot of junk to find a news. My morning time is limited and I am into a rush to get ready and go to the work. whatever little time I have for news paper reading I only want to put into useful and relevant info and news. My attention span is wasted in wading through the visual chaos of glitzy ads, glamorous pics and luxury property ads. Then there are days when you get half front page. What with this half cut front page? It might be a creative advertisement strategy but a real inconvenience for the user, when trying to sort out or fold the paper. 2 and half pages one small 3 column news to read Things get worse when the festive season starts. from Dusshera to Diw...

It has been some time I have been seeing a lot of people in my facebook friend list are sharing pics of plastic bottles recycling. These clever solutions invariably get attention.  Over a period, I collected a good number of these images (got a bad habit of collecting images). I tried a few of them at home; my skill with cutting plastic failed me. The end result was a crude product. I still feel this is a good way to start and make people at least think about recycling. So here are the images I have been talking about:  These images belong to their original owner and I am sharing here for spreading the good word. check out this link as well: Green Diary Make a grain containers  using 2 big plastic bottles use the bottle neck and cap for air sealing clever use of bottle bottom for flower pattern hanging lamp roof tile pen-pencil holder SIP Planter coins purse hanging flower pots ladder plants pots ...

 I play social games. I am a regular player at Facebook Farmville. Recently, I have been playing Karma Kingdom. want to know why? this game feature some of my art. yes, I am working with Asvathaa Inc. apart from mobile game design and art creation we are maintaining this Facebook social game.   We create seasonal release update. thinking up new assets, themes and quests. It is exciting and a lot of work as well. Here is a image showing my initial attempts to get the hang of the game's existing unique art style. It's very organic and repeats the Indian spiral curl motif. See some more stuff on: behance page Disclaimer: All the images shown here belong to respected owners and shared here for appreciation purpose.

here is a list of three books on film making which are recommended to be pretty useful to the people related to live action cinema. it's a kind of wishlist for me as well. Concepts in Film Theory By: Dudley Andrew Grammar Of The Film Language By: Daniel Arijon Film Directing Shot by Shot By: Steven D. Katz I am trying to buy these books. I have ordered them online through Junglee which is has some king of association with Amazon. what was really funny that Junglee only works like some kind of search engine to find seller online and gives you the links to compare different seller's prices for the searched product. then asks you to go to buy on seller site. thus one order went Pustak.co.in another to amegabooks.com I really hope these seller deliver as they claim. Disclaimer: All the images/book covers shown here belong to respected owners and shared here for appreciation purpose.

there seems to be sudden awaking on the Indian animation scene. home made animation content is showing signs of an improved quality. posters and promos look good. let us see how they all fair on the box office. if these films- TV programme do well then certainly more producers will be willing to put their money into animation.   Shaktiman is already running on TV and getting positive response.It has setup new production quality standard for home grown 2D animation content. Chota Bheem is also popular TV character and soon to be seen on big screen. this IP already has a fan base lets see how they cash it on box office. Krishna aur Kans is another feature film to look out for. their promo has some quality of animation to showcase. it looks good as it is but they seem to be highlighting 3D stereoscopic a bit too much. Arjun the warrior prince is also finally getting released. I had seen it's earlier promo abo...