Paintings will speak now. After Disney and Pixar it is now the turn of Auryn Inc. to redefine the world of animation. Bringing alive the painting styles of world class painters like Monet and Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Modi Gleave and others, this Los Angeles-based company has come up with a software that can mimic the original style of painters — in water colour and oil colour — to come alive in 3D.

With the company opening its first office outside the US in Pune early this year, it has now trained its sights on the versatility of Indian painters. City-based Milind Mullick has been signed as the first Indian artist whose paintings will be put to life.

A US based author, Jane Yolen, is writing the 20-minute animation film titled The Girl Who Cried Flowers in the Painted Tales Series for which Mullick’s painting will be turned into animation. The series that has earlier come up with two films In Winter Still an adaptation of O Henry’s The Last Leaf using Monet’s works and Almond Blossoms — an adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s Selfish Giant with Van Gogh’s paintings.

“Yolen is considered to be the Hans Christian Andersen of the US,” says Samir Bose, the Head of Operations India of Auryn Inc founded by Umesh Shukla, a former Walt Disney computer graphics supervisor and one of the four visual artists for Oscar- winning Titanic.

Auryn Inc was set up in 2004 along with Amit Agrawal and Rob Kalnins. While Shukla is the Creative Lead of the studio; Amit Agrawal takes care of Technology management and Rob Kalnins is the Chief Software Architect.

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