Amitabh vs. O’Baba
Badmash’s obligatory Amitabh for President campaign rolls into town again now that the nominees are almost settled. But this year they’ve slicked up the artwork, posting it on a site with a gauzy blue heaven background like Obama’s.
[Obama] looks terrible in a turban… This is a serious weakness. Listen to me, America! There are many occasions when one is required to look great in a turban…
It’s 3am in America, and the children are sleeping. The phone is ringing. It’s your great-uncle Chintamani-bhai calling. His son is getting married. There is no time! … You must tie your turban, get on a plane, drink a bottle of Black Label, and dance in the wedding procession! When this time comes… Amitabh… will be there. And, he will look pimp… [Link]
It’s great fun and looks like an immense amount of work. How do they make money at this?
(thanks, tipster)
on Wednesday, March 12th, 2008, 11:23 am in Animation, Art, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Humor, John McCain, Politics › 
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Sunny Leone, spotted! Dhalsim, Sanjay Gupta, Kumar, Neela…it’s the who’s who of brown Amreekans. It’s cute, but like almost everything on badmash, very generic.
The design is gorgeous! Many of the visual gags are quite funny. The sound design is the weakest link, but I like the music.
Manish,
Thanks for the post. Any ideas about making money…please send ‘em our way. And, damn, Nina - kind words about visual design mean a lot coming from you.
Sandeep
Sandeep - did you design and animate that yourself? I couldn’t find production credits on the site. It really looks beautiful.
There were some credits at the end of the animation…
The design was done by our designer/animator Pete - I can’t even draw a stick figure right.
Sandeep why such a crappy player? Ive been trying to play the video but it keeps puasing to buffer. No play/pause control or progressive download means that for all practical purposes this cant be viewed in India.
Well yay Pete - I love the patterns and textures, and colors and shapes.
Hey Amit - we are going to be working on this tonight - will post a comment here as soon as we have a proper player in place!
that shit was hilarious! i just saw that and the ad. jersey represent!
Amit, not sure if you are checking this thread anymore, but we launched our player this morning…damn, that was harder than I thought it would be:
http://www.dishoom2008.com