Vivi5* Animation, Art & Design Studio

Vivi5 is a creative design studio that came into being simply out of sheer love for animation, art & design. Our designs are unbound to any style, method or platform. We are purely driven by very 'the purpose', 'the brand' and most importantly by our 'passion' to explore new territories as we create unique visual communication experiences. Here, we bring you a glimpse to some of our unique experiences with animation, art & design. A very warm welcome!

Friday, December 03, 2010

Design & Animation of AHLAN MSN Emoticons + The 'All about' video by the agency:

Emoticon designs* for the emoticon and RnD of existent emoticons to maintain the iconic MSN brand style:
** To see more emoticon designs> 'Designing of the MSN emoticons'

Feedback, corrections and refinements:

Final Arab MSN emoticon!

Storyboards for our 3D artist Manoj suggesting how animations should work:

Video by Wunderman, documenting Ahlan and it's success:

Agency: Wunderman, Dubai
Character Design + Animation Direction : Rita Dhankani
Modeling + Animation: Manoj Joseph

Cheers!

Thursday, October 21, 2010

More from the Dubai Lynx Awards this year_Ahlan MSN gets shortlisted

Now this is a good morning news, indeed!

Ahlan MSN was shortlisted for the prestigious Dubai Lynx Awards, in the Interactive category!

Integrated Campaign
Best Integrated Interactive Campaign for MICROSOFT MENA
Agency: WUNDERMAN Dubai, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

Vivi5 Animation | Art | Design is proud to be part this celebrated emoticon-al moment ;) and is glad to have worked with the wunderfull wonder team!

For more info on site:
Dubai Lynx awards_ shortlisted
Our previous post on 'Designing of the MSN emoticons'

Cheers!

Rita Dhankani

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Be A Hero_ Campaign

Recently contributed some of my design bits for dear Armman. This time once again it was something that I truly felt for. Dr. Aparna Hedge shared the facts, figures, reasons, the need and most importantly her ever-energetic drive for this new campaign conceived and initiated Armman. What followed is, a group of volunteers from both India and US working on it as a team virtually(!), and giving their special bits to make this campaign happen... to achieve the very motive. Pl read this through to know more...

Armman, a secular India based nonprofit organization has been intensively working on project HERO ( Helpline for Emergency Response Operation) only to facilitate our present precarious scenario when it comes to accidents and their after-effects.
With HERO, Armman aims to provide a first reat-time updates information system about emergency medical resources in Mumbai.

In simple diagram, this is how it works ....

More about Armman and the HERO project here: www.armman.org
Do contribute to this 'needful cause' to see the difference....

Be cool, be generous :)

R

Friday, October 01, 2010

Vivifying Delhi ;)

Fashion, food, fun and fundas... a lot to vivify on :)

InjoyinDilli!

Saturday, August 21, 2010

Riggy's coming to life:

Treatment...

Next step after script and the ikea-man storyboards was to animate it in Maya. This was my first ever experience in the software.

Animation tests...

'Riggy' short was an attempt to show we can animate almost anything and it need not have any physical features. Narrowing down to the basic idea of a good mime artist who enacts with least and expresses the most. Riggy who is a sweeper at a theatre performs series of acts, just like pro!

I really think the rig in it's grey un-textured surface would have served our purpose better :)

But neither the less it was some precious learning and experience making it. Thanks to my maya guru Gareth! Here's one of the initial animation tests in all it's crude greyness just for you.

In the test shot you here, Riggy is in a pretty stormy situation ;)

Enjoy!

Friday, July 30, 2010

IKEA = IDEA!! :)

So I was to animate a rig. And what would have been best medium to help me with storyboarding? Yes, the Ikea Man, of course and indeed :)

Good day!

Saturday, June 26, 2010

Windowslive IE8

Agency + Art Direction: Wunderman, Dubai
Animation Visualization + Direction: Rita Dhankani
Animation: Rita Dhankani & Mehul Mahicha
Compositing: Mehul Mahicha

Enjoy!

Monday, May 31, 2010

Vivi5 on MP Magazine, Dubai: here's a peep!

Animation is an illusion; beautiful and phenomenal. Often a byproduct of our imaginations, dreams and fantasies. A real image of the unreal parallel universe, often developing in our minds, almost every day.

Media Production: How did you first become involved with animation?

Rita Dhankani: I had applied for further studies in animation at the National Institute of Design, India (NID), while I was still in my final year pursuing Graphic Design in Applied Arts. To prepare for the entrance, I used to cycle down to buzzing markets in order to find interesting scenes where people were busy in their respective occupations, to sketch them ‘live’. It happened during one such sketching session that I noticed my regular human sketches had started looking more like characters. I was emphasizing their physical features so as to sync them with their ambience. It was then that I realized I was turning to the whole idea of animation. NID followed and I received a legal license to create life! To create animation films.

Sunday, April 25, 2010

corporate identity design

I did these corporate identities for NGO's sincerely involved in their sole purpose of making this place a bit more humane. I am totally proud to be part of such movements!

Cheers!