#DCDC8 ‘Pirates of Sundarban‘
DCDC or Deshi Character Design Challenge is a monthly competition from Cartoon People’s Facebook group. By participating in this challenge participants get a chance to display their talent among the group members and also win awards.
The DCDC8 challenge was all about visualizing the pirates of the Sundarbans.
This is how the theme was described:
The Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest sits proudly against the Bay of Bengal, housing the likes of majestic Royal Bengal tigers and beautiful spotted dears, among several other species. However, all is not well for the people residing around the forest. The fear of wandering tigers is only outshone by that of ruthless pirates inhabiting the nooks and corners of the mighty Sundarbans. Their horrific stories are well known among the locals and it is even more intriguing when some of them turn out to be real life Robin Hoods — friends of the poor.
So Research, Imagine and design the pirates of the Sundarbans. Hurry! 😀
With more then 140+ entries DCDC8 challenge successfully ended on august 5th, 2018. This time 1st and 2nd position was selected by our judge, legendary cartoonist Ahsan Habib
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Ahsan Habib, Editor of Unmad monthly satire magazine.
3rd & 4th position was selected by cartoonist Syed Rashad Imam Tanmoy and the Cartoon People executive committee.
Winners:
1st Place: Angona Ahsana drawing “ Dosshu Rani Fuly “ (Medium: Water Color)
2nd Place: Arham Habib drawing “ Pirate kakabu and his loyal pet “kakoli”
(Medium: Color Pencil)
3rd Place: Rakib Razzaq drawing “Mustafa the pirate” (Medium: Digital)
4th junaid iqbal ishmam drawing“Khora Khorshed” (Medium: Digital)
1ST Place: Angana Ahsana, 2nd place: Arham Habib
3rd Place Rakeeb Razzak, 4th Place Junayed iqbal ishmam.
The winners of the DCDC challenge gets a brand new graphic tablet (1st Prize) from Multimedia Kingdom.
and a Certificate of excellence from Cartoon people (all four winners)
The award giving Program followed by a Character Design workshop was held on 15th September at EMK center.
Oh Ideas! Where art thou? by Anik Khan
Character design fundamentals: Where to start?! By Cartoonist Tanmoy.
Everyone including our judge Ahsan Habib loved 1st position “ dosshu rani fuly “ by Angona Ahsana where the character bandit queen Fuly was protected and guarded by her pet tiger.
Second favorite was the fat, scary pirate named “Kakabu” by Arham Habib where the character is standing fearlessly with his pet bird “Kakoli” while holding his special weapon.
Ahsan Habib said: “All of the submissions were great and it was a very hard task to choose from them.The reason these two characters were selected is because they stood out the most with their local looks and features.
Cartoonist Tanmoy’s personal favorite was the character design by Rakib Razzaq where an old pirate named “Mustafa” is keeping an eye out with his telescope, and also the one by Junaid Iqbal Ishmam where a fearless pirate named “Khora Khorshed” is standing straight holding his dagger.
It was very interesting to see the traditional medium winning over digital artwork this time in this challenge.
other submissions from #DCDC8
Drawing original and local comics/animation characters in Bangladesh is a practice that is hardly ever observed. In the years to come, Cartoon People aims to bring out more and more Bangladeshi cartoon characters through the Deshi character design challenge.
Drawing original and local comics/animation characters in Bangladesh is a practice that is hardly ever observed. In the years to come, Cartoon People aims to bring out more and more Bangladeshi cartoon characters through the Deshi character design challenge.
