TARS and CASE - Interstellar [Behind the scenes]

This is acting and puppetry at its best.

This is the story of TARS and CASE.. and how a Bill Irvin (who turns out to be an excellent puppeteer) and a team of physical vfx and cg artists brought them to life.

TIE Fighter - short film

Animator Paul Johnson (aka “OtaKing”) spent countless nights and weekends over a four year period creating this epic Star Wars fan film, drawn in the style of 1980s anime

Robo Slug

A friend gave me this cool robotic toy slug creature.. I decided to mood it.. 

Added the fins and a custom paint job. Used acrylics and a "not so fine" brush for the paint and cardboard for the fins

Cats with Smoothie 3D

These models were created in a web browser using single photographs
To try out this tool, open a new tab and go to smoothie-3d.com and then follow along with one of the videos below.

Cat Sitting:
Heres a video of the process.. 


Heres the final model:

    Cat Sitting
    by Chaitanya Krishnan
    on Sketchfab

Grey Cat:

Heres a video of the process.. 

Heres the final model:

    Grey Cat

    by Chaitanya Krishnan

    on Sketchfab

Leviathan Teaser

Director Ruairi Robinson (Blinky) created this epic proof of concept for a science fiction film which involves battling giant worms, as mankind harvests its eggs to enable faster-than-light travel.

Stationary Car Rear Ended

Some idiot rear-ended my car last night at around 8:30pm.
While it was parked outside my house.
The fool just drove off.. even though a bunch of people saw it happen!




Better pic taken in sunlight

One of the witnesses, an auto rickshaw driver noted down the vehicle's number ..and came with me to the station and told the cops what happened.

Easiest police report I've filed.

Heres the description of the vehicle that did the damage and fled the scene.

KA04 MM 7296 
Silver Toyota Innova 

Update:

The Culprit
The police today were busy with some special assignments, and so will not be physically out tracking down the guy. They'll just issue the FIR so I can claim insurance and get on with my life. The policeman said he'd let me know if they do get the guy.

I can live with that.. It's not like this guy is some high priority criminal..

Well unless he was driving recklessly because he was fleeing some crime scene.. Or something more serious.

FIR(First Information Report)
Police FIR.. Was a simple thing. The policeman dictated the letter aund I wrote it down and signed it. They put a stamp on it and handed me a copy.

Damage estimate:
Drove to the mechanic's workshop, he estimated the cost of repairs will be INR 5000.

Insurance Claim:
This was a simple process involving the following steps..
1) Called the 1800 number to HDFC Ergo and initiated a claim.

2) Claim investigator/adjustor called and said he'd go straight to the garage and see the car there. I just have to leave the car and documents there.

3) so I got the documents together and left them with the car at the garage.


The Insurance Amount
A few hrs later I get a call from the investigator, and go to the garage to meet him. He explains to me that...

A) The insurance policy I renewed a few months back in December.. The one I payed INR 4000 for(discounted from INR 7000 due to no incidents last year)..

B) Will only give me INR 2000 for the repairs.(which are worth INR 5000)... ie: I payed more for the insurance.. Than they will pay me for the stuff I need insurance for.

Why?
Apparently these insurance policies are only really useful in the first 3 years of your car's life. After that they take pretty much everything at depreciated value. The only things you can get 100% coverage for are damage to glass and theft. For the rest..you know the more common types of accidental damage.. You pay out of your own pocket.

Conclusion
So year end when they start calling me to renew this policy, I'm going to tell these conmen to get lost.

Will go get the cheapest policy I can legally buy.

Red Betta - Siamese Fighters

Red Betta by chaitanyak on DeviantArt

Phone sketch.. Betta.. commonly known as Siamese Fighters. In real life, its actually impossible to keep three of them like this composition.. they'd rip each other apart. Drawn on my phone from various references

Phone Drawing - Girls on a bike

Girls on a bike by chaitanyak on DeviantArt

Drawn on my phone.
Reference image - https://purplemilkcart.wordpress.com/2012/06/11/pretty-girls-on-bicycles/