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The Storyboarding cum Cinematography workshop for new students concluded on 30 December 2010. The students worked on the assignment throughout the day, visualizing and selecting the shots and trying out the best compositions to represent the story. The images were then storyboarded.
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A 2 Day Workshop on UXD (User Experience Design was held at Arena on 28-29 December 2010. The Speakers for the first day were Rajiv Kaul and Cheena. The second day was conducted by Rajiv Kaul and Rajeev Walia. The experts shared with the students important inputs on how to plan a design board, the checklists and the approach. They also pondered on important elements of design and the POV (point-of-view) of the customer. The students interacted with the experts and sorted out their design problems. Rajiv Kaul and Cheena run a leading Web Design and Development company, Intelligaia, in Panchkula. They have recently been Awarded by STPI for their outstanding contribution in the field.
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Eyes on the model and hands on the paper. This is the unique classical excercise done by the masters which gives power to feel a model with sense of touch rather than just by eyes.
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Arena Animation Academy held their 14th Annual Function at Govt. Museum Auditorium Sector 10 on Sunday 12 Dec 2010. The event was attended by the students and their parents. STPI Director Ajay Srivastava, Dr. Mahender Kumar, Chairman Dept of Indian Theatre were the distinguished guests present there.
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The event started with a wonderful welcome dance Saraswati Vandana by Nishika. There were solo dances by Tejaswi, Anshum, Divya, Linken, Ishika, Maginder, and Nishika. Group dances were presented by BSc I Year & II Year. Ramandeep presented a rejuvinating Yoga performance. Solo Songs were presented by Mandeep, Prabhjot, Ishika, Mayank, Kartik, Bikram & Charanjeet. Bikram accompanied on the Guitar. Mahesh presented a comic poem.
A play was staged on the educational system. Based on the theme of Sholay and using characters from the film, the actors conveyed the purposefulness of the hard work and effort required to achieve success.
Vineet Raj Kapoor mentioned that the students who dared to show their talent would usually be the ones who make a mark first in their careers as well. A will to take risks and succeed is desired besides talent. An annual report presented by him highlighted this year’s special events. This year Perspectives was held, which focused on the making of the Animation Movie “Lava Kusa”. This also had a seminar by Prosenjit Ganguly famous Animation Movie Expert. A Team of Arena Faculty had worked on the Animated sets and backgrounds of drama “Ashoka” by DPS School. A team of Faculty and students had also worked on the 2D Animation Clip for promotion of the movie “Dreams of Sheikh Chilli”. The Project of creating an Animated Presentation NDPL was successfully commissioned by faculty of Arena Chandigarh. A 5-Day Animation Workshop was also held by Prosenjit Ganguly were students paid a tribute to Ryan Larkins through their work and movie.
A Team comprising of Neelu Kapoor and Vineet Raj Kapoor of Arena Chandigarh also participated in an Exhibition in South Korea. This helped them enter into fruitful partnership that helped increase the brand value as well as quality at the centre. Last year many foreign employees have come to the centre thereby increasing our width and understanding of the field and its scope. This has also resulted in a tie-up under which our students are expected to go abroad for short internship at foreign studios. The first batch of such students are expected to leave Chandigarh within a month.
Many special interest groups and clubs were started by Arena Staff and Faculty which enhanced the learning experience of the students. Some groups like photography and sketching have held many learning sessions and are a regular feature at the centre.
The event was rounded off with a Prize Distribution honouring all faculty and Semester Toppers. It also honoured the best animation and graphics projects by AAASP and BSc Students. Monika Modak was declared the “Outstanding Student of the Year” whereas Parminder Singh was honoured for being the Leading Mentor of the Year.
Dr. Mahender Kumar remarked during his speech, “Animation has been the missing piece in the jigsaw puzzle of storytelling. The picture now seems to be complete.”
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Awards:
Leading Mentor Award – Parminder Singh
Leading Light Awards – Sushree, Vijay, Narinder, Hazrat, Chetna, Kusum
Club Awards
• Nicolaides Sketching Club: Krishna
• Photography club: Shubham
• Chuck Jones Story Writers Club: Anurag
Outstanding Student of the year Award: Monika Modak
Best Graphic Project of the Year
Amrit Grewal, Garvit Trehan, Aastha Sehgal, Shikha Baliyan
Best Animation Project of the Year
Ttarang Manoj, Jaswant Singh, Sukhwinderpreet Singh, Paramjeet Singh
Semester Toppers of the Year:
Sem I
Monika Bhutta
Garvit Trehan
Sem II
Aditya Puri
Ragini
Sem III
Shiv Kumar Bhrigu
Isha Tandon
Sem IV
Ttarang Manoj
Abha
Sem V
Shiv Kumar
Abha
BSc Batch Topper: Richa Luthra
Annual Function Best Performer Awards
• Best Actor: Naresh
• Best Dancer (Female): Divya
• Best Dancer (Male): Tejaswi
• Best Music Artist: Mandeep Singh
• Best Group Dance – Simran, Nishika, Kartik, Bikram, Mayank
Special mentions – Ramandeep (yoga), Anshum (dance), Linken (dance)
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Gesture Study Tour
Apart from studying gestures from the live model in the studio, students taken outdoors to get a feel of the real life gestures.
Contrary to layman’s understanding, gestures are more an entity to be felt than to be seen. Without right guidance student end up making what he is seeing with eyes rather what he if feeling with his whole body.
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Raman with her Award
The highly talented student of BSc II Year won yet another medal for her yoga performances. All students and faculty applaud her consistent striving for perfection. She’s also one of the best at her animation studies.
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Animation Art Design Study Studio launched
A specialization course for Animation Concepts was launched in the Arena Animation Academy Chandigarh.
The course is designed to be run parallel to AAASP and BSc, caters to the much sought after skills that include – sketching art for animation, thorough study of gestures and anatomy, story creation, concept design, character design, storyboarding, acting for animation, direction for animation, voice acting, classical animation principles and techniques, key framing techniques, inbetweening techniques, cleanup techniques and lots more.
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A dedicated Animation Art Studio has been setup in the Arena Animation Academy, Chandigarh for high end specialization courses. All the arrangements for still life study, life study using live models, light and shade study using 3-point lighting arrangements, gesture study, anatomy study have been made.
Animation Art Studio
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It is a well known fact, that behind the co-production deal decisions is the subsidy that a Government gives in a country. Till Indian government sleeps over this fact, countries like Malaysia, Thailand, Korea, etc are taking lead in moving over animation projects to their countries.
Thailand-Malaysia animation co-production Super Panda is set for international distribution, boosting the reputation of both countries.
With the common goal of raising their international profile, Thailand’s OPA Studio and Malaysia’s Visual Xtreme agreed to the co-production with the support of both governments, said Apichai Akkachaichanvet, Managing Director of OPA.
The two-year project, to be produced in 3D over 52 episodes, is funded by Sipa Co-Production Asia under Digital Media Asia 2010 (DMA 2010) to promote Thailand’s creative industry, and Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC ) in Malaysia. Both governments will contribute at least 25 million baht to the project.
Super Panda is about a hero bear who has a mission to save animals from threats of natural disasters and human sabotage. It is intended that 20-30 percent of the content will be designed to educate young viewers about environmental issues.
Pre-production aspects such as character design, story and backgrounds will be handled by OPA, while post-production aspects such as voiceovers, localisation and sound effects will be isual Xtreme’s mandate.
“We have spent six million baht and two years researching our target group and designing characters and producing a trailer that will appeal to them,” said Apichai.
“In discussing the project and its market potential with third parties, we have received positive feedback, helping secure the co-production deal with Malaysia.”
Meanwhile, this joint collaboration can strengthen both countries’ appeal to the international market.
The sale of spin-off merchandise often represents a lucrative extra revenue stream for animations, but this requires an economy of scale, so the best approach is to target the international market.
However, at the first stage, animators should not expect high profits, as the focus should be on getting the cartoons on air as much as possible, so as to increase the awareness and fan base of the productions. After this is achieved, further revenue sources can be explored.
Apichai cites an example from Japan, in which new animations are often offered to TV channels for free or at low cost in order to capture as wide an audience as possible, which can lead to lucrative opportunities in future.
Sipa chairman Jeerasak Pongpisanupichit added that the agency plans to set a formal signing agreement between the two countries to show its commitment.
This project is a good starting to expand Thailand’s animation opportunities and the combined strength of the two companies will help them expand together.
In the new fiscal year, Sipa will allocate funds to continue DMA projects to help promote and sustain the industry.
Reference: based on reports on bangkokpost.com
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