http://www.oviyen.com/ Portal containing tutorials of drawing, painting, sketching, charcoal sketching, various art works, logos, digital works en-us Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://oviyen.com your links here: Toxel.com, DeviantArt.com, smashingmagazine, Devthought.com Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://oviyen.com/portfolios.html Environment lighting in maya and retouched by photoshop Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://oviyen.com/portfolios.html Cigarette with modeling, Lighting and Texturing. Software used: Autodesk Maya, Adobe Photoshop Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://oviyen.com/portfolios.html Dice in occlusion map. Software used Autodesk Maya. Fri, 08 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://oviyen.com/news.html Jodhpur National University (JNU): After successfully running programs in the fields of Management, Dental and IT engineering; JNU announces its launch of the 3 Years Bachelor Degree and 1 Year Diploma courses in the field of Animation Starting 2009. Career Opportunities: The Indian animation industry with an average growth rate of over 20% is estimated to reach a size of INR 39 billion by 2013 as per 2009 FICCI report. The biggest challenge faced by this industry growing at such a fast pace is the lack of skilled animation professionals. With Indian companies such as TATA, Reliance and Satyam setting up state-of-art animation studios, India has already positioned itself as a significant provider of animation content creation. There is a continuous demand for skilled animators by studios catering to various end user segments such us feature film, T.V programs, advertisements and computer games wide employment opportunities. Fri, 08 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://oviyen.com/materials.html You get yourself best in what you practice. You desire, determination and intelligence will always helps in improving your skill * When you see your work is going wrong, try to put it correct. Obviously you will get confidence when you correct the mistakes identified by your own. This will help in improving the other areas of work * If it is possible, try to watch the working methodology of other artists. Study his or her working techniques * Don’t throw your work away. Preserve them. After a period of time compare your latest work with your previous work, am sure you will feel a big difference Mon, 03 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://oviyen.com/blog.html The new skin by Mozilla give a awesome look to my browser. Its very light weight and easy to handle. Even though the every personas are look good, my favourite is 'Groovy Blue'. Right from start of my career, I always use to do the abstract works. Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://oviyen.com Study in Vancouver Film School. The 3D program teaches the creative perspective that computer animation is an instrument for telling a compelling story. By combining theatrical and technological training you not only learn to make films, you learn to make your film. Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://oviyen.com/index.html Digital Matte Painting Challenges, Matte Painting job in New York, Faculty jobs in GRAPHITI School Of Animation, SIGGRAPH Asia 2009 | The Pulse of Innovation Wed, 18 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://oviyen.com/materials.html Drawing a human figure in various action poses is easier for the purpose of constructing model sheets, story boards etc... And here is another approach for figure drawing technique. Before entering in to the action poses, practicing the human stick figure in normal standing position is necessary. This will fetch you the perfect height propotion of the human. Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://oviyen.com/materials.html Pencil, Eraser, Charcoal, Sharpener, Geometric Compass, Pro circle, etc... Apart from these materials, there are some Stuffs which are not available in all countries. Some of the materials which are rarely available - Blending stump (used for quick build up of tones). Instead of blending stump we can use a piece of tissue paper. By rubbing the tisse over the scribbled surface or strokes, we can get get the desierd tone. I also missed some materials. I have given those details in the following text. Always keep a piece of cloth or napkin for wiping hands. Drawing for long time will lead to sweat and it might damage the sketch. Salt Paper is used to sharpen the tip of the pencils. This can be done while giving some sharp storkes. Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://oviyen.com/shadow.html Light creates various tonal effects on objects such as areas of light, shade, cast shadows, reflected light, highlight or bounce light, etc... The flat surface of the objects show uniform tones and the curved surfaces show tonal variations. The pattern variations depend on the surface curvature... Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://oviyen.com/pencil-shadding.html We can get different values by using different grades of pencils. Here we can see the various type of strokes. The number below each type of strok indicates the hardness of the pencil. ('H' stands for hardness and 'B' stands for Black) Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://oviyen.com/perspectives.html The eye level can be categorized in to three levels. (1) Eye Level, (2) Above eye level, (3) Below eye level. Here the figure (A) represents the 3types of eye levels and the figure (B) Represents how the object in figure (A) will look like in each levels. For achieving a perfect perspective of an object a clear knowledge of eye level concept is must. Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://oviyen.com/portfolios.html Art work done by me author (Karthikeyan MK). Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT