Parvathy Subramanian - Octopus Anachi Song

This project I worked with the Poo team is very close to my heart. It is a detail illustration for a tamil children's song about a mess which serves hot breakfast! Scroll through to see the complete breakdown of the project. I worked on character sketches, scene storyboards, handmade illustrations, digital collages and it was all done with a splash of magic (just kidding, I made it with my own hands and heart!).

While working on this project I recieved immense support from my family, and specific team members from Poo who were involved in the project. You can see all their names at the end credits.

The first sketch and rendering direction made for the establishing shot in the song. This direction was shelved but later we borrowed elements from this for the final render of this scene. As you can see below, I made a lot of iterations as per design and artistic direction discussed with the Poo team.

And this was the final Shot 1 that we went with!

The Initial Sketches for Shot 2.

Final coloured background with characters for Shot 2

Kitchen designs for close up shots through the song.

They also needed a flat kitchen for this shot, later on.

This is the rendered kitchen in a flat angle for this shot!

The final sketch for Shot 3

The final render of Shot 3 with the characters!

The final sketch for Shot 4

The final sketch for Shot 5

Sketches for the final angle which is supposed to give that feeling of cooking or diner games! So the angle is fixed and the food keeps changing.

The final render of the sketch turned really well!

These Sketches did not make it to the final song but I absolutely love them! These illustrations do so much justice to south Indian snacks that are not very easy to depict visually.

Sketch that did not make it to the song but I absolutely loved it!

Lets look at some of the important characters in the song!

These two sketches of Octopus Annachi were rejected! Mostly because they were high in contrast and too textural that it wasnt sitting well with the rest of the kitchen

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