Assistants – Vajra Pancharia , Samidha Gunjal

Vajra Pancharia (Research assistant)
IDC Animation Batch 2010

Animator, Illustrator

Myself Vajra Pancharia , I am an animation filmmaker and an illustrator. I have done my 
Bachelors in Communication Design from Symbiosis institute of Design at Pune and then 

I pursued my masters in Animation film Design from IDC, IIT Bombay. For some time I was 

working independently on my own artworks and some commercial work as a freelance artist. 

After that I have been working with IIT Bombay at IDC as a Design associate working on this

project on 'Creating Digital-learning Environment for Design' also called 'E-kalpa' which is 

sponsored by the Ministry of Human Resources, Government of India as part of the National 

Mission in Education through Information and Communication Technology. I am creating content 

for Animation design helping in spreading design education through this vast pool of Design

Resource.

Samidha Gunjal (Research assistant)

IDC Animation Batch 2011

Animator, Illustrator

Recently I am working on animating a music video. I have taken this song named 'twelve monkeys' by Josh Woodwards. In this song the protagonist monkey is telling his story, how he got caught in the jungle and now surviving in the cage with 11 other monkeys between 8 of them are family. He compares his old days spent freely in the jungle and his monotonus life in city zoo.

I have completed the character design and working on story boarding. Prof. Phani is guiding me for this and I get to learn more n More about animation everyday. Some times I get stuck while visualizing the shot but he just suggest to think it from different perspective and it helps.

In D'source, we try to make the module in such a way that understanding the animation and its methodology is easier for everybody.

we start with the topic and we discuss various ideas and ways to explain it in more elaborately. 
we explain the method with the help of appropriate examples and also make demonstration video for better understanding. in the end of the module we also give some exercise for learners which they can try.we also provide some examples of the same thing with the help of our students' work.it is said that ' you learn and understand more when you explain it to others.'in this process even I get to learn many things from sir and my friends n seniors and juniors too.Working with Prof. Phani is a really nice experience because he is one of the cool prof. at IDC. :)