Janel Narayan

@Director_Narayan
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30 yr old Japanese rock music aficionado & Animator generalist. Animated: Botchelorette & Yoshikitty. Currently in production for "The RainMaker."

Director of: "Falling Leaves" and "The RainMaker"

Good Omens fanatic (Ace/Virgo ⬛⬜♍)

https://janelnarayan-animation.carrd.co/Carrd

Ah damn, I'm making music now. 😂

I can't animate right now but it's cool that Suno is around to play with. I'm in Pre-production for 'Last Night' but decided it's not too early to look into opening songs.

Not sure if this is the final version though. I'm not 100% happy with the Japanese lyrics, but I have work tomorrow so I can't complain about this as the final result.

https://suno.com/song/1b8852d2-80ee-4aec-9487-33613073218f

#SunoAi #Suno #JapaneseRock #ProgressiveRock

These Lonely Streets to You by @directornarayan | Suno

progressive raw Japanese rock, piano, rock song. Listen and make your own with Suno.

I've always been a fan of Hideto Matsumoto's music work so I stole one of his tattoos for my own. The original tattoo image from the 1980s does not exist online so I had to pull from 20 different reference images that were close to the original and re-create what the tattoo was supposed to be like. I might re-draw the hilt, I could never figure out from the previous drawings what it was supposed to look like, so I improvised in version 2.

I Did a smaller project last night. It's been on my 30-year, ever-growing, to-do list to have tattoos, so I created these polished references to show my potential tattoo artist

Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's novel Good Omens has become a permanent part of my life so it seems like the perfect time to keep something from the show/book. I scanned the Hourglass dividers directly from my copy of the book and cleaned it up. Haven't quite decided on the size yet but they might shrink down to 1 inch

Update my branding! Not quite a big fan of pink but this is my best color pallet yet.

Website: https://jrn-animation.wixsite.com/portfolio
Carrd: https://janelnarayan-animation.carrd.co/
Demoreel: https://vimeo.com/772981519

Bought #ToonBoomHarmony again and going back to production on The RainMaker tomorrow. Tried rigging a puppet for the first time and got this... I was hoping to make something for my Reel but this isn't it. 😑

Image by coolvector on Freepik.com
Animation by Janel R. Narayan

My Website is down till further notice. I'm redoing a bunch of stuff for sorta re-branding. Chatted with a friend of mine, and I'm stepping away from being an animation generalist and switching gears back to being a 2D animator.

I still want to do stop-motion but with the lack of space and funds its going to be a very, very, very, long, agonizing amount of time before I return to working on sets.

the motion graphics reel and stop motion reels will be unlisted, will have a new reel up soon.

Doing more website maintenance also added 2 animatics to the Galley from some old projects.

https://jrn-animation.wixsite.com/janel-narayan/animatics

Animatics

this was my first short film involving yoshikitty

Janel Narayan Anim.
This is like super old now... 😅 Back in 2015 I referenced Jorge Gutierrez & Sanjay Patel's work to create Ram & Sita for a character design assignment in college. I never got to animate them but they are they are my best character designs in my portfolio. #BookOfLife #Ramayana #Concept

Had fun in Hollywood last week with #TheLastRockstars on their first US tour. I've seen all the members with their solo projects so it was amazing seeing them play together 😍

#TLRS #HYDE #SUGIZO #MIYAVI #YOSHIKI #LosAngeles #ThePalladium

Some good news, each shot in the production is now 30% done... though bad news, I'm broke again so all my ToonBoom stuff is on hold till I can pay it. I used to have the patience to use GIMP to key stuff but still prefer ToonBoom. #brokeanimatorproblems