During the year 2008-2009, Arena Chandigarh reached many new milestones and set higher benchmarks. Some of the notable achievements were:
- Arena offers BSc (Multimedia and Animation) with MSU University
- Academics Achievement Award (North India Zone) Winner
- Student from Imphal studying at Chandigarh Centre is All-India DAE Topper 2008
- Chandigarh student tops North India AAASP Sem I
- Placement Workshop by International HR Professional faculty from Poland
- Placement Drive at Spice VAS
- Appointed Adjudicator at all major Government College Fests
- Celebrated ASIFA international animation with talent building activities
- Faculty prepares Barack Obama Inauguration Speech Animation launched onYoutube
- 12th Annual Function held at Government Museum
- Arena Chandigarh holds 3 Day Workshop at IIT Roorkee
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Arena Chandigarh was Invited to hold a 3 Day Workshop on Maya at IIT Roorkee from 28-30 March 2008.
When the Arena Faculty Team of Senior Faculty Sushree Sunita Das, Lab assistants Deepak and Vijay Pratap reach the IIT Campus on 28 morning, there were around 60 curious students waiting anxiously for them. It was a pleasant change from the laidback normal student who comes to learn animation. The attendees had never seen Maya and the target was to get them working on Maya. The students went on to create their cartoon character models by the end of the 3rd day.
More than 25% of the students reached a stage where they could work on their own in the software. They were able to use materials, lighting, paint effects, basic rigging, character modelling, and basic animations by the end of the workshop.
Yogesh the co-ordinator of the workshop and also a Final Year student, was very happy with the feedback he recieved from the attendees.
Sushree, I was overjoyed when some students expressed their interest in taking up Animation as their career after finishing with IIT. A lot of students wanted repeat Workshops to happen as soon as possible.
Overall, the IITian language they’d say they were “Zapped” by the workshop. We’d say “Wait we’ll Zap the World”!!
Anthony Christov world renowned animation and gaming expert, was in Chandigarh, today to present Perspectives, a seminar on ‘Animation in India: Future & Careers’. Perspectives is a series of nation-wide seminars, organized by Arena Animation, the global leader in hi-end animation training. The seminar was held at Government Museum Hall, Sector 10-C, which was attended by over 500 animation aspirants and professional. Anthony was also there for the launch of registration for BSc (Multimedia and Animation)
- Above Pic: Anthony affixing his signature on his artwork in Finding Nemo
The seminar offered a common platform to the aspirants and international industry professionals to share views, opinions and ideas. The renowned speaker gave an insight into the Animation Industry and growth and career opportunities in the field of Animation and Visual Effects.
Anthony Christov a highly acclaimed industry expert gave an insight into the Animation Industry and growth and career opportunities in the field of Animation and Visual Effects. He spoke in length about the booming market and career prospects of the Animation, Visual Effects and the Gaming industry.
Christov has been specially invited to India to felicitate winners of ‘Golden Cursor Animation Awards,’ which is scheduled on 8th May, 2009 in Mumbai and also to present a series of nation-wide seminars.
Anthony Christov, Art Director, Pixar (the world’s top animation company) is the man behind the stunning art direction of the academy winning ‘Wall E’, and the hugely successful finding ‘Finding Nemo’, ‘Ratatouille’ and ‘Cars’. Christov has also worked with some of the eminent companies including Warner Bros. Universal, 20th Century Fox, and Disney. Christov is the face of the animation in films. His work on the ‘Incredibles’, ‘The Prince’ and ‘The Pauper’ and ‘Titan AE’ has redefined animation in film making. From creating Oscar winning films and characters to teaching animation to students, Anthony is leading the animation revolution across the world.
Anuj Kacker, Global Head, Arena Animation, said, “Perspectives is a series of seminars organized to create awareness among students of the unlimited career opportunities in the animation industry. Through this we offer a unique opportunity for the students to interact and learn from industry experts. I am sure these seminars will be fruitful for all those aspirants who want to make a mark in this industry.”
Perspectives aims to bring together professionals from the animation community on a common platform to share their knowledge, thoughts, views and experiences of the animation industry with the students, which would enable them to think beyond the obvious and get an insight into the career options within animation, VFX and gaming.
Perspectives have also been held in other cities such as Mumbai, Delhi, Cochin and Ahmedabad.
Gurtaj Singh Mangat, VP Aptech Ltd, launched the Degree program open for enrollments at the event. Arena Animation Chandigarh Faculty presented a mime ending in the launch of the registration for BSc (Multimedia and Animation) .
bsc animation and multimedia degree launched at arena chandigarh
MS University and Aptech Ltd have come together to offer a degree program (BSc) in multimedia and animation combining the best of both the worlds (Formal education and Industry relevant job oriented curriculum), thereby increasing employability of the students. A special drive is being held for 2008 XII passouts under which they can save part of their lost year by enrolling into the Jan-Dec session.
Arena Animation, which provides animation and multimedia training, announced on Thursday that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Manonmaniam Sundaranar University (MS University), to offer a B.Sc. degree in Multimedia and Animation.
The course curriculum would include all modules from Arena Animation’s flagship program - Arena Animation Academy Specialist Program (AAASP), and four mandatory modules from MS University viz. English Language, an elective second language, as listed in the university prospectus and two papers of soft skills, said a press release.
Ninad Karpe, CEO and MD, Aptech Limited, said “Multimedia and Animation is one of the fastest growing and high paying career options today. The demand for animators has increased greatly due to fast-paced developments in sectors like high-tech digital media and 3D animation.”
He added that a university degree in Multimedia and Animation backed by Arena’s expertise and experience of 13 years in disseminating quality training across 15 countries, makes it a power packed combination that would enhance the employability of the students manifold, opening up a world of opportunities for them in this sphere.
Professor Dr. R.T. Sabapathy Mohan, vice chancellor, MS University, said, “India has tremendous opportunity to be an animation out-sourced country. This degree program in Multimedia and Animation has been launched thoughtfully and in-time by MS University and Arena Animation to enable students to be part of the growing animation industry.”
He added that with this MOU, students would have an opportunity to take up a degree in this field and attain the desired level of proficiency to face the competitive global market.
The newly-launched joint-program would be made available across the country at select Arena Animation centers. Arena would follow the SILM (Students Integrated Learning Model) for the training. It would be a three year MSU course, with 90 credits as per the university norms. All the examinations would be conducted online facilitated by Aptech Ltd, the release added.
She is Magdaleena, from Poland. We call her Magda. She is a well qualified trainer with prior work experience. She graduated her Master degree this year at Wroclaw University of Economics. Her specialization was Human Resources Management. She has half a year of experience in Human Resources Department of international company. She is having an experience of conducting international motivating events. She is currently in India for interpersonal workshops at Arena Chandigarh which help in developing the student’s soft skills. She presented the seminar-workshop on “Time Management” today.
The First Placement Workshop in 2009 for 2008 Batches was held today. The Studio was brimming with students, who thoroughly enjoyed their interaction with Magda and picked up new tips on managing their time. They learnt to identify the “time-eaters” in their daily time schedules and then learnt methods to counter and manage those time eaters. They also learn how to channelize their maximum time to their prioritized activities. For e.g. an animator’s priority should be to learn the animation theory or seeing old classic animation movies, and he or she should devote more time to this, and this time can only come from removing some of the Time -Eaters say like Paying PC Games and gossiping.
They also engaged in the self-learning exercises conducted by Magda. In one of the exercise, they learned to communicate through symbols and gestures. It added a lot of fun to a saturday evening!
(when you check the pictures, do checkout the beautiful interiors of the Arena Disney studio - we call it Disney studio to honour the legendary Walt Disney whose concepts we teach at the studio)
We are Proud to announce that ARENA ANIMATION has won an International Award for Student Animation Film.
Pls find some details on the Digicon Awards 2009.
A Student animation film from Arena Animation Academy (Title : USE CONDOM) won PRIZE FOR EFFORT at the DIGICON ‘ 09 Awards held on April 3, 2009, Bhaidas Auditorium, Juhu, Mumbai.
The Other Awardees in the said category (PRIZE FOR EFFORT) include Well known Animation professionals Mr Dhimant Vyas (Taare Zameen Par – Title sequence) Gitanjali Rao & Vaibhav Kumaresh (3×9 sequence of Taare Zameen Par) besides works of Animation studios such as Toonz Animation, Famous Studios & National Institute for Design (NID), Ahmedabad.
ABOUT DIGICON AWARDS
Organised with the aim of bringing together animation creators from all across Asia, Tokyo Broadcasting System‘s DIGICON Awards honor the best animation films and their creators every year. The Awards Grand Prix is held in Japan annually with winning film makers from each of the participating countries being flown in and hosted courtesy TBS.
The Indian support partner for DIGICON Awards (India Leg) is AnimationXpress.com and the best films from 2008 were honored at a special function which would be held on April 3, 2009 at Bhaidas Auditorium, Juhu, Mumbai as part of the 1st FrameFlixx Awards. The same was made possible with the support of the Consulate General of Japan and Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS).
Arena Chandigarh wins awards for Best in Academic Excellence for 2008 and most enrollments/ collection in 2008
Arena Chandigarh Sec 17 Centre Management and Academic Team was today praised for it’s Academics Achievements during 2008 for which it was adjudged as the Best in North India, spanning the states of J&K, Himachal, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, Uttarpradesh and New Delhi. It was presented with an award during the Arena Strategic Meet at New Delhi today to honour it’s achievements in the field of Academic Excellence in 2008.
arena chandigarh academics team
The Team that achieved this included Parminder Singh, Bikramjeet Singh, Hazrat Ali, Sushree Sunita Das, Aayush Chopra, and S. Vijay Kumar. This is in continuance of the recent Batch Toppers that emerged from this centre. Slowly but surely, Arena Chandigarh Centre has become a prime centre of academic excellence and various students have opted to cross the entire country to enroll at this centre.With students coming from as far as Bangalore, Jaipur, Dehradun, Nainital, Delhi besides towns and cities of Punjab (Rajpura, Bhatinda, Moga, Ludhiana, Mohali, Patiala, Faridkot, Hoshiarpur, Ferozepur, Amritsar) Himachal (Shimla, Mandi, Solan, Kulu Manali, Nahan, Dharamshala, Dalhousie) and Haryana (Ambala, Jagadari, Yamuna Nagar, Narwana, Kaithal).
Mr. Bikramjeet Singh, Arena Web Training Head, was invited as Judge for various leading colleges of the city to select the best talent in the fields of cartooning, caricaturing, story writing, graphic design and web site design. Chetna Bhatt, Career Advisor also held parallel counselling sessions for the advantage of the students who were able to satisfy their queries regarding pursuing their careers in the filed of design and animation. The various fests that invited him were:
- IT Fest Techzeal, by GCG-11 on 10 Feb 2009
- IT Fest Techriti, GC-46 on 16 Feb 2009
- IT Fest “Osmium”, GCG-42 on 17 Feb 2009
- Techfest 2009, GC-11 on 24 Feb 2009
Soome of the pictures of the same can be seen here:
S. Vijay Kumar, one of the students of Arena Chandigarh, was adjudged the All-India DAE Topper for 2008
Hailing from Lamdeng in Imphal, Son of a Government Employee, Soubam Vijay Kumar from ARENA Chandigarh Centre has been declared as the best DAE Student for the year 2008. 
Chandigarh was one of the first Arena centres to have launched the high-end DAE curriculum way back in 2005. During this period, Arena Chandigarh has produced some very fine artists who have joined the industry in India and Abroad.
The best DAE student Award is declared based on the overall weighted marks (minimum being 75%), which is taken into consideration for deciding the DAE Certificate Grade.
Vijay had come all the way from Lamdeng, Imphal (West District), with only one vision in his mind - to pursue animation education at Arena Chandigarh 17. He says,”Way back in 2005, when DAE course was just launched, I had come to know that it was being offered only through Chandigarh and Chennai centres. I opted for Chandigarh since I was sure that I would get more personal attention here - as animation is new in North India.”
Vijay is the son of Soubam Kulabi Singh, who is Manager, Loktak Power Station, N.H.P.C.
We are premiering Barack Obama Inauguration Speech Part 1 video made on 21 Jan 2009, to the world audience. We have remade it in 3D, by the staff and students of Arena Animation Academy, Sector 17, Chandigarh, India.
This shall be released in several parts. So go on and enjoy Part 1 NOW!
