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- Check if there is enough information in the footage for the tracking markers to hold on.
- If there is not much information for the tracking markers to stick onto the footage, start playing around with the footage manipulation settings, to bring out the information from the footage for the automatic trackers to hold onto the footage.
- Mask out the highly contrasted points on the edge of the footage, as they can produce many tracking points jumping on and off on the edge of the footage. These tracking points can stay stick over the edges looking for the contrast between white and black. So to fix that we need to stop the tracking points from going towards the edge of the frame by putting some dummy masks.
- Look for the objects in the scene that can help us for scene orientation. Pick an object with the horizontal line and draw an X axis line over that object, which will help our camera solution to automatically generate the ground plane orientation. Similarly drawing orientation lines over the objects with Y and Z information in the footage will further refine the camera solution.
- Set the tracking parameters according to the footage requirements.
- Start the automatic tracking and solving the camera together with track and solve.
- Right click on one of the tracking points on the ground plane and select set as origin, to define it as the origin point of the world.
Garbage Mask for the moving car object and Dummy Mask for the highly contrasted points of the Horizon.
X Y and Z axis line for scene orientation.
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Student 3D Character Design and Model – Grub – First Prize Winner!
Arijit Biswas landed the top award for his character Grub.
For the first time ever Arena Chandigarh bagged 3 student film 3D Character Model Awards at the prestigious Creative Minds Awards.
For the first time ever they created a Clay Animation Movie and won the First Runners Up Award at the Creative Minds 2011 Awards Ceremony. The Jury were Yunus Bhukhari (Geon Studios), Vaibhav More, Ajay Pratap Singh (Pixion) and Rashmi Ahad (Krayons).
YUNUS BUKHARI
Head – Geon Studios
A well-known name in the Animation & VFX Industry and considered one of India’s best Visual Effects Producer, Mr. Yunus Bukhari has been associated with high profile Bollywood projects as well as Television series and TV Commercials. To name few Bollywood blockbusters – Koi Mil Gaya, Devdas, Rakht, Khel, Vinta Nanda’s White Noise, AB Corp’s Virudh and Vipul D Shah’s Waqt.
He is a Masters in science, a Writer and an Actor. He started his career with the 1983 Classic serial Malgudi Days. Over the years, he has Executed Visual effects and Animation for many Indian & International Films, Commercials & Television Productions. He has also been an eminent Jury for various national and international film festivals.
Mr. Yunus Bukhari is the VFX supervisor on the first live action cum animation film “Toonpur Ka Superrhero” released last December and this combination is seen for the first time in Indian Cinema.
Presently, he is the Head of Geon studios, (A Sahara India Parivaar division), a Digital Visual Effects and Animation studio based in Mumbai, India. At Geon Studios, he and his team are working on design, development, and delivery of visual effects for feature films for domestic as well as international clients.
AJAY PRATAP SINGH
Head, Animation Division – Pixion Studios (Mumbai)
Ajay started his career as a CG artist in the year 1994 and went on to specialize as a Character Animator & Character Rigging. He has gradually grown step by step to the positions of Animation supervisor, CG supervisor to presently as the Head of Animation Division at Pixion Studios in Mumbai. He brings along a rich experience of 16 years in the Animation Industry, having successfully delivered various CGI projects including, Feature Films, Television Series and Commercials.
VAIBHAV MORE
Director – Vaibhav More Films Studio, Mumbai
Vaibhav is a a graduate of Sir J.J institute of Applied Art and specializes in 2D as well as 3D Animation. He has worked with MTV India for over 6 years and presently is the owner of Vaibhav More Films Studio. He has also worked with brands like MTV, H1, Nickelodeon, Disney, Zee TV, Star Movies & Cartoon Network. His present works include the making of Peepli Live promo with Aamir Khan and Viral Animations for Yash Raj Films besides animated promos for MTV India.
Ms. RASHMI AHAD
Director HR – Krayon Pictures, Pune
Ms. Rashmi is associated with the leading Animation Studio, Krayon Pictures in Pune as the Director, Human Resources and specializes in managing manpower and training requirement of the studio. She is presently heading the Krayons’ team in marketing and promoting their much awaited 3D Stereoscopic Animated Feature Film “Delhi Safari”. A Graduate in English literature, has rich experience with companies like The Oberoi Hotel, Jet Airways & Swiss Air. With a work experience of over 14 years in Public relations, Quality Customer Service, Counseling and Brand Management in India, UK and UAE, she is also pursuing a Phd. in Psychology.
This year Arena Chandigarh students had gone beyond mere pixilation work and created more arty stop motion, live and 3d animations. Arena Chandigarh faculty came together to inspire their students to create animation films alongwith their studies.
Student Stop Motion Film – The Label – First Runners Up Prize Winner!
The student group Fibre, consisting of Paramjit (Ricky), Karandeep (Bhola), Varinder and Simranjit working under the mentoring of Vineet Raj Kapoor, created a clay animation movie which was highly appreciated for it’s storytelling, animation, as well as lighting.
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Today a workshop for Art and Craft was conducted inside the premise of Arena Chandigarh.
In this work shop students learned how to do an art work with thermocol and colour paints.
They learned in workshop how to design and colour in making the Cartoon character’s.
In the workshop students has shown group work, team strength as well as team spirit with utmost
dedication and enjoyment. This kind of workshop is typically usefull for Character designing for animation.
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Today a out door visit of Rock garden for sketching and nature study was conducted by Arena Animation 17 chandigarh for 2d animation classical batch. In this out door visit students learned study to nature and sketch with shade in open place. In this visit students has done Individual work ,with team strength as well as team spirit with utmost dedication and enjoyment. This kind of out door visit is typically useful for animation, background, layout design, camera angle and storyboard.
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Animation Artist and Mentor, Parminder Singh, fully nurtured in the premises of Arena Animation Chandigarh, Sector 17 and VirtualSoft Studio, has been rated best by Head Office on All India ground in a 3D character animation conducted by them.
A 10 second audio clip was given to all the faculty members across India by Head Office. Faculty members from all the centres were supposed to animate a character on the dialogue and submit to the Head Office. HO was to rate the quality of animation based on the final product as well as the working method the faculty member follows to get that final product.
Parminder secured 91 out of 100 and landed top in the entire country.
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To rejoice the moment Parminder preferred to celebrate a cake party with all his animation students and team members. In the party all centre management and staff members joined to pat on his back for this success.
“..I would like to give all due credits to the most healthy learning environment of Arena Sector 17 premises.
Arena 17 Animation Faculty Rated Best in India
Being associated with the academy for about 8 years I am in a position to give feedback on it to all the students. The academy is not only a perfect place to learn all creative skills, it has been excellent in teaching work ethos, work culture and management which are highly important parts in growth of an artist..”, Parminder stated on being congratulated by all the students and team members.
He added, “..I cannot forget the part strong mentoring and guidance of chief mentor, Mr. Vineet Raj Kapoor has played in my growth in the past years..”
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His animation students couldn’t stop commenting upon the 3D character animation training they are enjoying with him.
..the way he communicates with us is simply too good. He know very well that how to teach low to high level
students…I have never seen any animation teacher like him with these top level skills. He is having so many skills in him…”- Linken, BSc 3rd year.
“..I am very happy and feeling lucky to attend animation classes of Parminder Sir… We are doing animation very deeply which are not normally taught by anyone anywhere..”- Ramandeep Ashal, BSc 3rd year.
“..he is very good in animator. The animation exercises are very enjoyable and it takes lot of patience to do them..I have to thank Parminder Sir for giving us professional training of animation”- Shubham Saini, BSc 3rd year.
“..he teaches us with emotions. If we fail then it hurts him more than us. I only want to say that we are lucky because we have a teacher like him..” – Mangat, BSc 3rd year.
“..before his classes I thought I am not able to do animation, but after attending Parminder Sir’s classes, my thinking has totally changed…” – Ramandeep Kaur, BSc 3rd year.
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For the first time ever Arena Chandigarh bagged 3 student film nominations and 3 3D Character Model nominations at the prestigious Creative Minds Awards. For the first time they went beyond mere pixilation work and created more arty stop motion, live and 3d animations. Arena Chandigarh faculty came together to inspire their students to create animation films alongwith their studies. The students worked hard during the months of August and September to complete their films and artwork. It was noticed that the students with passion ended up outdoing many students with more talent. Dedicated groups working with their faculty produced quality much better than their predecessors from earlier years. You could see Walt Disney’s “a boy with a dream..” while seeing them work!
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Art Orientation Workshop for BSc 2011 First Year and AAIP Batches
An Art Orientation Workshop was held early this week with participation from the BSc I Year and AAIP Batches. Conducted by Highly experienced and Expert Design and Classical Animation Faculty Sanjay Kumar, this was a Half Day Workshop. The students eagerly participated in the understanding of colors and shapes in the physical domain. The end results were interesting with students showing their interpretation of the chosen object of study – the symbolic chakra representing the Sun Temple of Konark.
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- Art Orientation Workshop for BSc 2011 First Year and AAIP Batches
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BSc Batch Photograph alongwith AAIP new Batch
The new BSc 2011 (First Year) and AAIP Batches began classes in the end of July. They are currently experiencing a journey of rediscovery. They have done some time travel through the last 100 years in the world history and got to learn about how animation grew to the current stage. They also went through various exercises which inculcate the right values and attitude required to learn and perform animation.
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Arena joins with Smita Patil Theatre Group to promote a social cause on World Anti-Drugs Day (26 June 2011). Smita Patil Theatre is a Mumbai Based theatre group. The play had a case of 5 actors, and deals with the story of the effect alchohol has on the person and slow degradation of his personality. And finally it results in a tragedy for the family. The play was held in Chandigarh at various places on 6 July 2011. Here are some snaps from the play:
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- Arena Smita Patil Theatre Group on World Anti Drugs Day
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- Arena Smita Patil Theatre Group on World Anti Drugs Day
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- Arena Smita Patil Theatre Group on World Anti Drugs Day
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- Arena Smita Patil Theatre Group on World Anti Drugs Day
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- Arena Smita Patil Theatre Group on World Anti Drugs Day
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- Arena Smita Patil Theatre Group on World Anti Drugs Day
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- Arena Smita Patil Theatre Group on World Anti Drugs Day
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The Award Ceremony for the year 2010-2011 was held on 15 Apr, 2011 at New Delhi. Arena Chandigarh continued their journey of excellence winning 2 more awards this year. They had the highest enrollments for third year in running at their centre.
These Awards join the list of Awards that the Centre has been winning for it’s Academics as well as Enrollments right from 2006 when these Awards were constituted.
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