OutFocus Aug 2014 | Page 24

The true potential of INDIAN GRAPHIC INDUSTRY Today we have Sivaprasad from Realwork Studios whose team has made it clear that Indian talent can be used to produce high quality graphic and animation work by making India’s first totally open source software produced 3D trailer titled “Ranadheeran”. We liked their intentions so we made small talk with him. Here’s what we learnt. To those of us unaware of open source software, could you explain what that means? Open source Software means, a program or a software application, whose source code is freely available to download and explore. 24 What it means is that not only anybody can download the application and use it, but also can modify the source code, thereby customizing the application itself. Linux is one such example of a very powerful Open source project. How did you get introduced into the world of graphics and animation at first? What fascinated you? I have been, interested in drawing from a very small age, and have been sketching and painting in different mediums since then. What fascinated me in art was the way our minds learn new things around us to create believable art. For instance , we learn about light, surfaces, optics and composition etc.,