Naadan Comics turn The Hindu Huddle sessions into comics in realtime

When eminent speakers were exchanging thought-provoking ideas connected the signifier of The Hindu Huddle, the squad of Naadan Comics, an AI-based storytelling company, was besides astatine work.  

In existent time, Karnataka Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar, Chinese ambassador to India Xu Feihong, Kashmir CM Omar Abdullah and senior journalists of The Hindu appeared arsenic characters alongside T Rex, the dino mascot of Naadan Comics connected the societal media handles of Naadan Comics.  

As the conversations engaged the assemblage who gathered astatine the event, the comics took it to an online audience, conveying the important moments from the sessions with a comical twist in real time. 

“We call it unrecorded comic journalism,” says Kamalakkannan Durairaju, who goes by Kamal.  

The company, which experiments with innovative storytelling, blending AI, creativity and realtime storytelling, dedicated 2 panels for each session, with 1 of them focusing connected the session taxable and the different connected its aboriginal possibilities. 

The squad also ensured to include an elephant mascot alongside T Rex in each comic, successful a chapeau extremity to the elephant which appears successful The Hindu logo. While the mascots appear to be passive spectators successful immoderate comics, they could beryllium seen passing progressive opinions successful a fewer others. 

“We experimentation with formats to marque it much readable. There volition beryllium a quality connected the ground, and past the contented is fed into a exemplary to make the comic successful existent time,” Kamal says.  

While the marketplace for comics for India is relatively low in presumption of revenue, the Naadan Comics squad sees a anticipation successful the events space.  

“We are introducing a caller medium into the space which is present dominated by reels and videos. There is YouTube for videos, Spotify for music, but nary specified cardinal abstraction for comics. Comics clasp a batch of imaginable for promotion and branding, arsenic good arsenic a abstraction to explicit what the communal man wants to say,” says Kamal.