Experimental Animation workshop at NCA

In October I was invited to conduct another (The previous one was conducted last year) experimental/stop motion workshop at the National College of Arts, Lahore. Here is some of the work done by the students (First year M.A Multimedia Arts)

Each of these was completed during the duration of one class (four hours). More of the work can be viewed here

Maula Jutt

Every country has their badass-pop-icon. Pakistan's is Maula Jutt!

Here's some conceptart I did for this epic project.

Jesterette

The Cold Absolute

All religious references are completely unconscious, I came up with this while listening to Emptiness Unobstructed by Nevermore. The lyrics and Warrel's voice make me sad, like being in search for something unattainable.

Let's just say it's about the human condition... or something :D.

Watercolors and color pencils on some weird warpy paper.

Uhuh

A quick mixed media thingie. Markers and gouache mostly, I like how it turned out. supposed to be inspired by beta/fighter fish, a sea prince or whatever.

An exhibition, finally! Drift~

So, I finally decided to stopped attempting to rebel against the art scene by efusing to have a show/market myself as an artist and gave in. I had work I wanted to show dammit!

Why I even wrote an 'Artists statement' Gosh!

Accidents, loss of control and lack of direction (being adrift, as the title of the show suggests) are the dominant themes in my work. I was also morbidly fascinated with the concept of divine deluge’s that wash away the destruction and decadence wrought by mankind - a state of being literally and figuratively adrift.

Accidents and loss of control are also a part of my work process. To create my works I’ve used transparency sheets, employing different mark making techniques ranging from controlled drawings, to drips and splatters and scrapes. While working on the paintings sometimes a stack of rejected transparencies lying on top of each other would look better than something I’d spent an hour arranging. Other works flowed together while following a stream of consciousness - not thinking about what I was doing.
Using transparences and glass sandwich frames I wished to create literal depth in my works.

The funny thing is... this is right before Pakistan started to flood. Eep?

More pics from the show here

Showreel

More animated stuff. A shabby showreel I put together. The work seen here is a mix of stuff I did while I worked at a kids channel (Wikkid Plus), my thesis 'paintings' (and a couple of other college assignments), personal projects and freelance stuff.

Find Heaven

A music video I did the animation, editing and Character designs for. A good experience.

One of the primary messages here is about hypocrisy. Islam condemns the killing of innocent people and committing suicide. Yet these pseudo-mullahs think these are forms of Jihad. What sort of Jihad is this pointless self destruction? Killing yourself and killing your own countrymen.

English


Urdu

Fariy-man-thing

Harmony sketches!

I LOVE THIS APPLICATION!

Zal and Simurgh?

Yet another experiment, this time it's digital. I've been attempting to color this for ages but I just wasn't happy with the results, so I randomly slapped on colors and realized it didn't look that bad any more (or maybe it's just me and my warped sense of aesthetics?).

Gulabo

More mixed media lurve! Chaotic, quick and fun!

First post!

I've been meaning to post artwork for ages, what better day to do so than on my birthday!

Spring is in the air! I like spring, I don't like the season that follows.

Anyway, this is a character from Carol Berg's Lighthouse duet.