The one line brief from Ashok Leyland, a leading commercial vehicles manufacturers in India, to Showspace, one of India’s top event management companies, was “make it dramatic!”. Showspace considered various options, including stereoscopic 3D, the ‘Avatar’ kind, where you need 3D glasses to view.

The one line question from Showspace to Nextwave was, “can you people do it?”

In line with our philosophy of always accepting challenges, we took on the project, although it was an unknown technology for us. The other challenge was to execute it in a tight timeframe.

The major part of the script required a mix of video and 3D animation, where the Executive Director-Marketing of Ashok Leyland, interacts with Mr. U, a 3D animated character. The rest of the presentation was more technical in nature – of engines, gearboxes, and other aggregates.

At every stage of the execution, newer technical challenges sprang in our way, but we overcame them through ingenuity and hard work. The 3D animation was entirely done using Blender, the open-source 3D animation software.

The product launch of the U-Truck vehicles was held on 02 November, 2010. The audience, mostly consisting of Ashok Leyland Dealers, was thrilled as they watched the aggregates of the vehicles popping out of the screen and coming right onto their faces.

As far as we know, this is the first time in India a product launch video has been made using stereoscopic 3D technology.

Below is a short clip from the launch video in the anaglyph format. So, 3D red-blue glasses are required for viewing.

Nextwave Multimedia has launched four illustrated stories - Rama(The story of Ramayana), The story of Gandhi, Panchatantra and Thomas Alva Edison - on www.appup.com, the Intel’s App Store. With colourful visuals and lucid language, the stories are retold in the comic format. Specially customised for the digital medium, the stories can be best enjoyed on your PCs, netbooks, and tablets.

The stories, priced at US $ 1.99 each, can be downloaded at: http://www.appup.com/applications/publisher-Nextwave

Happy reading!

Rambow Ramu, India’s first mobile comic series, has now become the second most downloaded content on Samsung India’s Java App Store.

Rambow Ramu is a comic series about the misadventures (read ‘dreams’) of a village lad, who lives, breathes, eats and sleeps to be the next ‘King Of Bollywood’. Since its launch, the comic series has been receiving an overwhelming response from readers across the world.

We are glad to announce that our mobile apps have seen over 1 million downloads on Nokia’s OVI Store.

Our mobile apps have been critically reviewed and appreciated on the Nokia’s OVI Daily App blog. The blog, which reviews smart Nokia OVI apps, has featured ‘Express, the proximity communicator’, and the grand prize winning ‘Comics Creator’.

“With ‘Express’ on Your Nokia, You’ll Never Be at a Loss for Words” says Jason Black, the reviewer of Express, the proximity communicator.

To read the complete review, click: http://blog.ovi.com/dailyapp/global/2010/09/with-express-on-your-nokia-youll-never-be-at-a-loss-for-words/

“Let me just come right out and say it. I love this app!” admits Martin Marshall, the reviewer of Comics Creator.

To read the complete review, click: http://blog.ovi.com/dailyapp/global/2010/09/create-your-own-mobile-comics-easily-with-comics-creator/

Audi R8

Software Used : Blender 2.5 alpha 2 and Gimp 2.6.6

Feel free to download this Blender mesh. We will be glad if you acknowledge usage.

To download this 3d object click the link below :

Audi R8

Kitchen Scene

Three types of render images of a kitchen scene.

1. Blender Internal Render

2. Yafaray External Render

3. kerkythea External Render

Note: For the render image above(kerkythea External Render), we exported the blender scene to kerkythea render engine, where we reassigned the materials, textures and the lights’ set up, and finally rendered.

To download the complete kitchen scene, click the link below:

Kitchen Scene

Software Used : Blender 2.5 alpha 2 and Gimp 2.6.6

Feel free to download this Blender mesh. We will be glad if you acknowledge usage.

To download this 3d object click the link below :

chevrolet camaro

“i cnt w8 for the next vol. Plz upload two vol at the same time. i m w8ing for new release”

“Awesome! the best story ever….Cant wait for the new vol =D”

“this story is ossam! A must download!!!!”

“One of the Best Comics on Ovi….We want more…”

These are just a few glimpse of the hundreds of reviews we have been receiving for Rambow Ramu, India’s first mobile comic series.

With just eight episodes out, Rambow Ramu has already seen more than one lakh downloads, across different mobile platforms, which include Apple’s iTunes Store, Nokia’s Ovi Store, Samsung’s App Store, and Android Market Place.

Since its launch, Rambow Ramu has been receiving an overwhelming response from readers across the world.

Rambow Ramu is a comic series about the misadventures (read ‘dreams’) of a village lad, who lives, breathes, eats and sleeps to be the next ‘King Of Bollywood’.

A morality-based game, Snakes & Ladders was invented by the ancient seers of India to teach the effects of karma(deeds).  The ladders and snakes represent moral ascent and descent, respectively.

Our upgraded version is based on this original, age-old, Indian theme, and has long hours of game play.

In this version, whenever you’re bitten by a snake, you’ll take a different form -  deer, insect, frog, etc. To restore the original form(human), you’ve to successfully complete a ‘Mini Snake & Ladder’ game.

When you reach the target, you’ll unlock two exciting games:

Mahjong -  A simple, musical theme based matching game.

Gold Miner – An addictive tile-based game, in which you’ve to  guide the ‘minecart’ carrying gold to reach its destination by swapping the jumbled squares to form a track. The game has infinite play levels.  So, you can have non-stop fun.

Snakes & Ladders version 2.0,  now available on Nokia’s OVI Store, will also be available on Apple’s iTunes Store, shortly.

To download the game from Nokia’s OVI Store, please click the link below: http://store.ovi.com/content/19688?clickSource=publisher+channel