Lord Nṛsiṁha Appears From Pillar Animation

As promised, here is our first little animation follow-up of Śrī Śrī Prahlāda-Nṛsiṁha 3d project – Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva’s appearance from a pillar in Hiraṇyakaśipu’s assembly hall!

Character animation is no small thing to learn and master, especially if the character has four arms and is wearing as many ornaments as Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva! So we are just taking our first baby steps with animation here. However, at the same time we wish to create and share Kṛṣṇa conscious projects.

Śrīla Prabhupāda stated in a letter to Satsvarūpa regarding learning technical skills in art:

“My Guru Maharaja used to say that in a foreign land where you cannot speak the language with the natives very nicely, what do you do when there is a fire in your house just to get their help? In such emergency one has to express himself somehow or other to his foreign friends and get their help to extinguish the fire. But if he wants to learn the language first and then talk with the foreign friends to get help, then everything in the meantime would be finished. Similarly, if we have to learn and then paint, it will be a long term affair. But immediately we want so many pictures for all of our books, so all the artists may always be engaged in painting works and that painting itself will gradually teach them how to make things nice.(..)If all the artists are always engaged in painting that will satisfy me and that will gradually make them experienced for making good paintings.”

(Śrīla Prabhupaāda’s Letter to Satsvarūpa, 21st Apr 1970)

In this spirit, we hope that our learning projects, even though lacking technical perfection, would bring pleasure to the Lord and His devotees, and that by doing more and more such projects we would master all the required techniques.

Credits:

Text and plot based on Śrīmad Bhāgavatam Canto 7, Chapter 8, retrieved from Vedabase.io

Music: Gustav Mahler Symphony no. 2, Allegro Maestoso, performed by DuPage Symphony Orchestra, licenced under CC 3.0, retrieved from imslp.org

Sound effects from zapsplat.com

Procedural Snake skin texture on Lord Ananta is adjusted from Sc’les procedural texture, courtesy of Simon Thommes https://simon-thommes.com/scles-procedural-scales-shader-blender

Everything else made from scratch fully with Blender 2.91/2.92 at Dhāmeśvara Studio, rendered in Cycles, 64 samples.

View some still frames from the animation HERE