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September 21, 2005
Creativity: A River Runs To It
A look at Nayan Soni, one of the members of No Evil Productions Dream Team
By DEANNA DAHLSAD
Nayan was born on 18th July 1974 in an Jabalpur, India, a town famous
for it's river, the Narmada. He credits the river for much of his
inspiration, saying “(It's) free-flowing water taught me how to be
spontaneous in my life and my work.”
Like a river, Nayan has a physical source as well. He was blessed to be
born into a family of artists and musicians. His grandfather was a music
professor teaching the sitar. Both his grandfather and father we painters.
Young Nayan used to accompany his father on trips where his father would
paint landscapes in watercolors and Nayan remembers “that is where I got
my first "taste" of colors.”
Nayan graduated with a degree in Fine arts, with a specialization in
Painting. His post graduate work was in Visual Communication with
Animation Film Making as a specialization.
He believes destiny and humor are what led him to Kat Caverly's website,
The Photocartoonist, and credits the free-flowing spontaneity of his
river for inspiring him to contact her. He sent her an email with
samples of his work and on January 2, 2003, he officially joined the
team with this first assignment from Kat Caverly:
“I am working on a script that will feature a purple stegosaurus. I
loved dinosaurs when I was a kid and I want to create unusual
characters. This stegosaurus is a hopeless romantic and HE is purple."
On Jan. 23, 2003 Steggie was born.
Since then it's been smooth sailing for Nayan. As a member of No Evil
Productions he has done 150 animations. While Nayan cannot name any
favorites, saying all of them have the same amount of labor & love put
into them, users have made the following Nayan's most popular designs:
Feliz Cumpleaños
Happy Burp Day
Birthday Blast
Posted by photocartoonist at September 21, 2005 9:28 PM