Samsara (The Wheel of Suffering)


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Creator/Artist: Pratigya Beniwal

Category: Animation Design

Document: P3 Project

Batch: 2012-2014

Source: India,   IDC IIT Bombay

Period:  2009-2018

Medium: Video MP4

Supervisor: Prof. Shilpa Ranade


Detailed Description

When we look at Ajanta paintings carefully we find many Jataka tales (moral stories based on previous lives of Buddha) depicted in it, Ajanta artists painted them in comic strip style where various events had been shown in a limited space which is quite interesting because if we want we can make out several stories out of one particular painting. For this project I read many jataka tales and selected few out of them so that I can interlink them together in an interesting way to create a new Jataka story with a strong philosophical message of “Karma”. The crab and the crane” and “The feast of the dead” are the two stories which I finally combined with each other and for look and feel of this film I used similar colour palate which Ajanta Artist used. Though backgrounds and other forms were quite different from Ajanta but they were also inspired by Ajanta style.