Little Krishna! - A 3d Animated short film series playing @ ISKCON B'lore

Little Krishna, a 3D animation film produced by the India Heritage Foundation (IHF) has won two BAF awards for ‘The Best TV Episode‘
and a special recognition award under the same category for
‘Outstanding Indian content‘ in the FICCI-BAF awards ceremony held
on 27 th March, in Mumbai.


The
India Heritage Foundation (IHF) is an independent Trust created to
preserve and propagate the ancient and timeless heritage of India in
it‘s varied manifestations like literature, music, dance, architecture, cuisine and so on with the objective of improving the quality of life of people.


In order
to diffuse the virtuous values embodied in the ancient epics of India
in an entertaining experience especially for children, the India
Heritage Foundation set about creating 3D computer graphics animated films
for TV serials on the life and activities of Krishna as described in
the Srimad Bhagavatam. "It has been a dream project for us," says Madhu
Pandit Das, Chairman of the Foundation, "to create world-class
presentations of Krishna pastimes using the state-of-the-art computer
graphics and animation technology."


The India Heritage Foundation commissioned Anirights Infomedia Pvt Ltd, a high-end animation studio
in Bangalore city to produce these animated films. A three times Emmy
award winning script writer, Jeffrey Scott of Hollywood fame was
appointed to write the scripts. Extensive research material, authentic
information on the pastimes of Krishna and extensive creative direction
were provided by the subject matter experts from the ISKCON Temple in
Bangalore. Vincent Edwards, who had formerly directed the Spiderman animated TV serial from Hollywood
was appointed as the Series Director. A team of about 250 young,
energetic and highly talented Indian animators, character modelers,
background artists, etc. was set up. The result is a series of
22-minute animated films of world-class production values.


The
estimated cost of this world class animated production is about Rs.
22.5 crores. This project is entirely funded by India Heritage
Foundation, though ISKCON Bangalore has provided all spiritual advisory
input. India Heritage Foundation is a charitable institution and has
developed a unique funding strategy for raising these funds through
surplus generated out of housing development for its supporters at
Kanakapura Road known as Gokulam Complex.


The first in the series, The Attack of Serpent Kaliya,
was screened in the recently concluded FICCI-FRAMES festival in Mumbai
and won the Best Animated TV Episode Award and the Outstanding Indian
Content Award.


Speaking to presspersons, the Vice Chairman of IHF, Shri Chanchalapathi Das said, "The Krishna
Animation film has been made in order to continue the tradition of
story-telling to children, but in the way that today‘s children like
to hear and see stories- animation films. If the best of cartoons and animations are filling in our children‘s minds, why can‘t we use the same medium to present our own heritage content?"


"When we
took up the first episode of Kaliya story, we realized that it was
technically a great challenge to create in 3D graphics," says Ashish
Kulkarni, CEO of Anirights Infomedia Pvt Ltd, the animation studio that
produced Little Krishna! Ashish said, "We had to animate 3D cloth,
water and over and above that wet cloth! There were practically no
skilled people to handle this in our country. Our talented artists took
up the challenge and we were able to achieve considerable success."


"The
animation section of ‘Best Animated Frames‘ Award for excellence in
animation received more than 360 entries" said Habil Khorakiwala,
President of FICCI on the occasion of the awards ceremony.


The
FICCI- BAF (Best Animated Frames) staging its 4th year of awards, has
been set-up by the Federation of Indian Commerce and Industry (FICCI)
to recognize and encourage animation industry in India. FICCI-BAF is
part of FRAMES which is FICCI‘s annual global convention covering the
entire gamut of entertainment.

Little Krishna! - A 3d Animated short film series playing @ ISKCON B'lore

Little Krishna, a 3D animation film produced by the India Heritage Foundation (IHF) has won two BAF awards for ‘The Best TV Episode‘
and a special recognition award under the same category for
‘Outstanding Indian content‘ in the FICCI-BAF awards ceremony held
on 27 th March, in Mumbai.


The
India Heritage Foundation (IHF) is an independent Trust created to
preserve and propagate the ancient and timeless heritage of India in
it‘s varied manifestations like literature, music, dance, architecture, cuisine and so on with the objective of improving the quality of life of people.


In order
to diffuse the virtuous values embodied in the ancient epics of India
in an entertaining experience especially for children, the India
Heritage Foundation set about creating 3D computer graphics animated films
for TV serials on the life and activities of Krishna as described in
the Srimad Bhagavatam. "It has been a dream project for us," says Madhu
Pandit Das, Chairman of the Foundation, "to create world-class
presentations of Krishna pastimes using the state-of-the-art computer
graphics and animation technology."


The India Heritage Foundation commissioned Anirights Infomedia Pvt Ltd, a high-end animation studio
in Bangalore city to produce these animated films. A three times Emmy
award winning script writer, Jeffrey Scott of Hollywood fame was
appointed to write the scripts. Extensive research material, authentic
information on the pastimes of Krishna and extensive creative direction
were provided by the subject matter experts from the ISKCON Temple in
Bangalore. Vincent Edwards, who had formerly directed the Spiderman animated TV serial from Hollywood
was appointed as the Series Director. A team of about 250 young,
energetic and highly talented Indian animators, character modelers,
background artists, etc. was set up. The result is a series of
22-minute animated films of world-class production values.


The
estimated cost of this world class animated production is about Rs.
22.5 crores. This project is entirely funded by India Heritage
Foundation, though ISKCON Bangalore has provided all spiritual advisory
input. India Heritage Foundation is a charitable institution and has
developed a unique funding strategy for raising these funds through
surplus generated out of housing development for its supporters at
Kanakapura Road known as Gokulam Complex.


The first in the series, The Attack of Serpent Kaliya,
was screened in the recently concluded FICCI-FRAMES festival in Mumbai
and won the Best Animated TV Episode Award and the Outstanding Indian
Content Award.


Speaking to presspersons, the Vice Chairman of IHF, Shri Chanchalapathi Das said, "The Krishna
Animation film has been made in order to continue the tradition of
story-telling to children, but in the way that today‘s children like
to hear and see stories- animation films. If the best of cartoons and animations are filling in our children‘s minds, why can‘t we use the same medium to present our own heritage content?"


"When we
took up the first episode of Kaliya story, we realized that it was
technically a great challenge to create in 3D graphics," says Ashish
Kulkarni, CEO of Anirights Infomedia Pvt Ltd, the animation studio that
produced Little Krishna! Ashish said, "We had to animate 3D cloth,
water and over and above that wet cloth! There were practically no
skilled people to handle this in our country. Our talented artists took
up the challenge and we were able to achieve considerable success."


"The
animation section of ‘Best Animated Frames‘ Award for excellence in
animation received more than 360 entries" said Habil Khorakiwala,
President of FICCI on the occasion of the awards ceremony.


The
FICCI- BAF (Best Animated Frames) staging its 4th year of awards, has
been set-up by the Federation of Indian Commerce and Industry (FICCI)
to recognize and encourage animation industry in India. FICCI-BAF is
part of FRAMES which is FICCI‘s annual global convention covering the
entire gamut of entertainment.

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Woooh..Unlocked & Jailbroke successfully 1st gen iPhone from 1.1.2 to 2.0.1

As iPhone is set to hit shores of India on Aug 22,I was very exited as everybody else asking always one question "How much does the iPhone will cost in India?" and the answer to it is obtained officialy from Vodafone that iPhone 8GB: Rs.31,00 and iPhone 16GB:Rs.36,100
and people can book iPhone by paying an advance Rs.10,000 @ a near by Vodafone store.

The Story

I chose to take the challenge of making my bro's iPhone 2g phone with 1.1.2 firmwre to the latest 2.0.1 and ofcourseunlocked & jailbroen.
So a quick google took me to several iPhone modding communities where there were lot of such success stories.After reading many of them then i came to know that the task is not so difficult as it sounds..
So arrived at this conclusion that as i've a jailbroken & unlocked iPhone 2g with 1.2.2 there was no direct upgrade that was successful i.e from 1.1.2 to 2.0.1

I've to upgrade it to 1.1.4 and then to 2.0.1.The resons are:

  1. iPhones with firmware(f/w) upto 1.1.4 are unlcoked and jailbroke using iLiberty+ or ZiPhone. and
  2. iPhones with f/w 2.0 or more are unlocked & jailbroke using pwnage.
And both the methods are different from ground..
the first method is as easy as clicking a button "do it all fo me" and Hurray!! you have an iPhone unlocked & jailbroken ,while the second one is quite not so simple..it actually takes the original Apple 2.0 or later f/w and is modified using pwnage tools(Winpwn for Windows & Pwnage for OSX) and then fed to iPhone..so we are actually loading a customised f/w to iPhone.

The Adventure

Upgrading iPhone f/w from 1.1.2 to 2.0.1

The process was not very difficult as i've already told

Upgrading from 1.1.2 to 1.1.4

The process is actually three simple steps:
  1. Get the firmware required
  2. Restore your iPhone using iTunes to the downloaded f/w(You must keep iPhone in DFU mode and connect it to system)
  3. Use 3rd party tools like iLiberty+ or ZiPhone to Jailbreak & Unlock ur iPhone

A list of download links to iPhone f/w released till date
  1. Got the required iPhone 1.1.4 f/w here.
  2. I found a problem with iTunes 7.7 while restoring to 1.1.4( it failed at the preparing iPhone for restoration stage quite many times) so i downloaded an older iTunes7.6 version and installed it.
  3. Now setting the iPhone in DFU mode(before entering into this mode connect ur iPhone to system and have itunes open coz it helps to identify that u set it in DFU mode):
  4. Default Factoru Unit(DFU) mode is mode in which iPhone is put in factory before loading f/w.To put iPhone in DFU mode we have to press both the home screen & lock keys for 10 seconds and after 10 secs release the lock key while continuing to hold the home key..
    You can notice that iPhone screens becomes blank and nothing happens..if u have iPhone connected to system then you can notice that Windows XP will start installing drivers for iPhone in DFU mode and iTunes saying that an iPhone in DFU mode found..
  5. Restoring iPhone to downloaded f/w(holding shift key while clicking restore will allow us to choose the ipsw file to be used for restoration)
  6. After restoration iPhone reboots and then it has to be activated.
  7. Now i used ZiPhone for activation and unlocking it.
Upgrading from 1.1.4 to 2.0.1

Here after downloading the 2.0.1 f.w and upgrading the iTunes to 7.7 i followed this guide and successfully upraded it to 2.0.1

All this process took an hou and at the end of the day i'm very satisfied to have completed task successfully..
hanks to modmyiphone,iclarified and several other modding sites for their detailed guides..and my humble thanks to the iphone-team for releasing such wonderfull pwnage tool to unlock 2.0 f/w and other developers of previous f/w version crackers.

But after two days of using iPhone on 2.0.1 i've noticed several freezes and crashes of iPhone which i never noticed from last one year.As it can be noted that all those apps available for 2.0.1 are in very early stages and are quite buggy this time.I hope this gets resolved in due course of time...