Irritant Indian Railway website..

We all know how important it is to have a proper customer care.
But these days, having a fast and well-designed website is even more important!
If you look at the stat of the Indian railway website, it fails to handle the traffic during the evenings and we have to agonizingly wait for lots of time to book the tickets. And for some, this could be very crucial.
When the railway minister hiked the charges, we all hoped that he is being sincere and will improve the state of infrastructure of railways(and website is an important part of its infrastructure). But alas, again the ugly head of politics came into effect and most of the charges were brought down to the previous level. When a website so crucial like railways doesn't work well, all hell breaks loose. Its pathetic to say the least.
Being the taxpayers who pay towards the development of the nation, we expect certain level of service from the most popular forms of transport like railways, which is not to be. Another year goes by and the same thing will repeat again. Someone else comes, makes hay for his/her state in railways and dumps the quality aside. Until a huge reform is done, nothing is going to change. We will keep complaining, we fight a little and after a few days get used to the system....

.. Anil

The comedy show!

Its been 3 days since the show and KBC's kannada version(kotyaadhipathi) has turned out to be a comedy show!
On one of the celebrity episode of the show, there was unlimited comedy that refues to be forgotten!
When actress Ramya kept using lifelines one after the other for a question on Ramayanam, it was funny to say the least for people with a good sense of humour and outrageous for others!
How can any Indian, especially a Hindu not know about the question of Ramyanam that goes like this?: "In Ramayanam, who convinced Kaikeyi to send Lord Rama to the forest?".
And her first option for an answer: Dashrath. Since she wasnt sure, she took the 50-50 and that option went off(Thank God, she used the lifeline!). But more comedy was in store: She took another life line(audience poll) to decide between the 2 remaining options: Bharath and Mandara. The audience gave 6% for Bharath and 94% for Mandara. And after all the drama she played out on screen, she was still not sure after the poll and was tense!
At the end of the question, it was the best comic experience to remember for a tv show! Did we remember the line "Beauty without brains??"! yeahh!!



With love.. Anil

The lonely journey

Yesterday evening's journey back home was a long and lonely one despite so many people around. Felt like a stranger lost in a new city! Has the monday blues already struck me?
For more than a year, my world only included a cab(sumo, qualis and indica), office, system, canteen, then again the cab on the way back home. From monday(2Apr2012), thats going to change.
Looking back at the project, initially, the project was only trial and error and it involved lots of iterations. To withstand the initial trials and tribulations and to survive all those was in itself a no mean task. Later, a process oriented approach has been defined and put into place which greatly helped us in streamlining the whole work.
Got up to a rainy morning today to find that the webmail has been disabled(as expected).


With love.. Anil

The melange of feelings..

Sometimes in life we feel different things at the same time. We feel lonely, yet at the same time we feel being part of the larger picture! We feel anxiety and yet feel excited to welcome a new world of possibilities.
We look back at the journey and we also look ahead of the path we take in the future.
Such is the mixture thats within right now at the time of leaving an organization that has given so much for the past 1.5 years!


With love.. Anil

Some of my Graphic Designs

Below are some of my graphic designs..Lot more coming up..
1. Adobe Photoshop Works:
The logo and first look of a short film by my Animaster batchmates, designed by me:

Moral Mohan: The concept of a short film.

An image showing the importance of quality check! Caption:"Dont let the QC man come back to you!"

Poster and first look of an animated video, rendered in Maya 2009 and Edited in Adobe Photoshop:

One of the frames of a 3D Video(cross-eyed view) created in Autodesk Maya 2009:

A model created in ZBrush software and rendered in Autodesk Maya:

Rendering of Creative Cruisers logo in Maya 2009:

2. Adobe Illustrator works:
Below is the art created on the occassion of Valentine's Day, using Adobe Illustrator(vector art):

Created on the occasion of Women's Day, the blue spirals in the background of the image below stand for the turmoils faced in today's lives and the stars and the leaves denote the fresh energies and achievements that women bring into our lives:

Some of the Graphic Designs for "Maven: Knowledge, Fun, Entertain":

Logo Creation for BioSquare Biotechnologies:
The green gradient indicates life, biotechnology and freshness. The blue shape in the background and the clear font indicates fluency and professionalism.The colours used for the letter "Q" indicates a square with creation embedded within it.

New Anilmation logo created using photoshop and pixlr. It signifies simplicity, elegance, clarity and consistency. Anilmation is the brand name that I use to publish any creative work, whether it is writings, graphics, music or videos on various platforms like Blogger, Loudly, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Youtube, etc:

Plain design for the Amazon Kindle book: "Avanthika: The Maahishmathi Saga": The design needed to be plain to match the mood of the story and the mystery inside it.

Fan Art of "Spiderman: No Way Home", inspired by the peacock, Spiderman's eyes and Doctor Strange's New York Sanctum symbol: Created using hand drawing and adding colors using Google's "Snapseed" app:

Dookudu movie's(A Telugu movie that was released in 2011) alternate logo, created completely using Autodesk Maya 2008:

A recreation of the apex flying creature of the movie Avatar(2009), created using Autodesk Maya 2009:

Cover art of Anilmation's first book published on Amazon Kindle platform, titled "iDonkey":

With love.. Anil