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Arena Awards for Overall Growth in 2009
Arena Chandigarh clocked the highest growth rate all across India and became the only centre across the country to have a 1 on 1 growth rate. The astounding growth of over 100% was achieved due to the high academic standards (for which it was again given an award) as well as student growth centric approach. The overall system is designed to allow talent to achieve their best with inputs from the experts from time to time. The Centre won separate awards for billing, collection and growth during 2009.
The Centre within just one year has become the main destination of students seeking the BSc Degree in multimedia and animation. The valuable additions made by Arena Chandigarh to the course have been instrumental in raising the standard of the students above the normal animation students. This years students worked on movies, research, acting, and attended seminars to improve their worth.
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).
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- Arena Awards for Overall Growth in 2009
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- Arena Awards for Overall Growth, Highest Collection in 2009
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- Students and faculty celebrate Arena Awards for Academic Excellence, Overall Growth, Highest Billing & Collection in 2009
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- Students and faculty celebrate Arena Awards for Academic Excellence, Overall Growth, Highest Billing & Collection in 2009
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- Arena Awards for Academic Excellence, Overall Growth, Highest Billing & Collection in 2009
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Students celebrate Awards
Arena Chandigarh added one more feather to it’s cap by becoming the Highest Contributor for Career Advice on the shiksha.com website. For this Shiksha has awarded them a Cup and the title of “Star Contributor”. It is already a Lead Avisor on the website.
The Chandigarh Centre has also won Awards for Academic Excellence for the 3rd time in a row. Similarly, the chandigarh centre also won awards for overall Growth, Billing and Collections for 2009.
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Animation Masterclass by Puneet
Puneet Sharma, highly renowned Animation Expert from Mumbai held a 2 Daylong Workshops on 13 and 14 April 2010. This workshop was attended by students of BSc (multimedia and animation) as well as AAASP and DAE3D passouts.
He had such an enlightening discussion with Arena students that they were feeling at entirely a different level after the talk.
He started with crushing the very basic misconception between animation and motion graphics. “A moving graphic is NOT animation” was his first punch line. Fully illustrating what makes animation an animation, he moved onto his next topic – Pre-Production.
Giving insight into this phase which lays foundation of any production, he elaborated each and every step and department involved in it. Most impressive was his live examples and case studies of Top Hollywood movies like Avatar.
Coming to the key point of his talk that is “Story Writing”, he gifted students with loads of tips and tricks to create sellable animation stories. He started with basics of playing with “Premise, Conflict and Resolution” but dug much further to unfold tricks professional international story writers play – juggling with plot points, creating surprise elements, connecting protagonist with the audience and many more.
To conclude he unraveled the topic of Cinematography by sharing the ways in which a camera can contribute in characterisation. A mere camera angle can distinguish between a hero and a villian. Cherry on the top were the video lectures and examples he brought for Arena Students.
Puneet is presently part of the Senior Technical Advisory Group at Arena Animation. Puneet started his career in the Animation Industry as a Graphics Designer with Moving Picture Company, Delhi and has a professional experience of nearly 13 years working with TV Production houses, Web-portal Companies, Multimedia companies and leading Animation studios. He has worked on various domains of animation – web, multimedia, architectural walkthroughs, animated ads (TVCs) & films (2D & 3D). His last assignment was with Zee Institute of Creative Arts (ZICA Studios) as Head of the Academy and Production.
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- Animation Masterclass by Puneet
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- Animation Masterclass by Puneet
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- Animation Masterclass by Puneet
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- Animation Masterclass by Puneet
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Arena Faculty and Counsellors detail students on various Courses and Career opportunities in Animation
Arena Animation Chandigarh was involved in and sponsored the prizes to be given to the Creative Talent in all local Colleges in Chandigarh through various IT Fests. Chetna Bhatt, Career Advisor and Rosa Hernandez, Motion Graphics Faculty, 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 8 Feb 2009
- IT Fest “Osmium”, GCG-42 on 11 Feb 2009
- IT Fest at MCM including Job Fest in end Feb 2009
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Pallavi Phor sharing her experiences with her Academics Head
Pallavi Phor, an Arena Chandigarh Alumnus working with a leading Architecture Firm in US visited her favorite campus, Arena Chandigarh. “I work as an architect in HOK Los Angeles, USA, after doing a short 3D Architectural Animation stint at VirtualSoft. I had done my 3D Training at Arena, Chandigarh, which helped me get work and Assistantships easing out my finances”, said Pallavi.
She Graduated with M.Arch from Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA and under-graduation from Chandigarh College of Architecture, India. She had done her 3D Animation Course from Arena, Chandigarh. She did her schooling from Carmel Convent School, Chandigarh, Kindergarden through Class 12″.
Pallavi Phor with her favorite Faculty Parminder
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SEMINAR ON ANIMATION INDUSTRY FOR ENGINEERS
A special talk was organised today by authorities of CCET (Chandigarh College of Engineering and Technology), sector 26, wherein 3D animation technical expert, Mr. Parminder Singh from Arena Animation, Sector 17 was invited to guide budding engineers.
The talk was targeted to give insight into the animation industry and elaborate on what all career options are there for engineers in this upcoming and futuristic industry.
“There used to be an industry called Commercial Art. There used to be an industry called Engineering/Technology. The industry where these two Mega streams meet is called Animation.”, summed up Parminder.
Students were glad to know that animation industry is not about graphic art alone. The backbone of this industry is engineering and looking at the demand-supply curve this is one of the most lucrative job option for them.
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- SEMINAR ON ANIMATION INDUSTRY FOR ENGINEERS
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Raman is Miss Yogini 2010
Ramandeep Kaur, student BSc (Animation and Multimedia) returned with a rich haul of medals today from the Swami Vivekananda Yoga Competition held by “International Youth and Yog Research Council, Chandigarh” founded by Yogacharya Raman.
She was awarded the following prizes:
- Won the Miss Yogini Title
- 1st Prize for Demonstration
- 1st Prize for Coaching
- Gold Medal Yogasanas (18-21 years)
We have still not forgotten her mesmerizing performance during our Annual Day celebrations, where she had won the Miss Arena Title, besides a hosts of other awards. She has been chosen to represent the state in the oncoming All-India Competition.
Raman with her medals
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Oman Web Awards - Silver Medal
Arena Chandigarh Faculty Bikramjeet Singh and Kulwinder Kumar designed a website that won the Silver medal at the Govt. sponsored Awards at Oman. This was the first time any website designed by them was entered for an Award. The owner of the website was very happy and wanted the team to be there at Oman when the prize was to be given, but the time available was too less for the visa formalities.
Beaming at us, Bikram commented on the typicality of the challenge, “We were given the challenge of recreating an oriental feel to the website, besides incorporating a restaurant feel matching the restaurant interiors.
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Chief Guests in a Jubilant Mood
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- Chief Guests in a Jubilant Mood
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- Arena Chandigarh Annual Day 2009 Song (Male)
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- Arena Chandigarh Annual Day 2009 Group Dance
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- Arena Animation Chandigarh Annual Day 2009 Song (Male)
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- Arena Animation Chandigarh Annual Day 2009 Solo Dance (Male)
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- Arena Animation Chandigarh Annual Day 2009 Solo Dance (Male)
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- Arena Animation Chandigarh Annual Day 2009 Solo Dance (Female)
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- Arena Animation Chandigarh Annual Day 2009 Solo Dance (Female)
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- Arena Animation Chandigarh Annual Day 2009 Solo Dance (Female)
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- Arena Animation Chandigarh Annual Day 2009 Solo Dance (Female)
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- Arena Animation Chandigarh Annual Day 2009 Group Dance (Couple)
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- Arena Animation Chandigarh Annual Day 2009 Group Dance (Couple)
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- Arena Animation Chandigarh Annual Day 2009 Group Dance
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- Arena Animation Chandigarh Annual Day 2009 Audience Students enjoying
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- Arena Animation Chandigarh Annual Day 2009 Audience Guests
Arena Chandigarh celebrated their 14th Annual Day at the Govt. Art Museum, Sec 10, Chandigarh. The winners from various academic and co-curricular activities were blessed by the presence of various dignitaries present. The Chief Guest was Ajay Sirvastava, Director, STPI, Mohali, and the Guest of Honour was Dr. Mahender Kumar , Head, Department of Indian Theatre, Panjab University. Dr. Sanjay Palsule, Professor, IIT Roorkee was also present to give prizes to the winners. Various Alumnus from across the years were also present to grace the occasion.
The prize winners were:
Miss Arena – Ramandeep Kaur
Mister Arena – Anshum Manchanda
Best Actor – Anurag
Best Solo Dance (Male) – Tejaswini
Best Solo Dance (Female) – Ramandeep Kaur
Best Group Dance – Ramandeep and Praveen
Semester Toppers:
Semester 1: Abhishek Kaushal, Simrat Dhiman, Dhruv Sharma, Preeti Tholia
Semester 2: Bhupider Singh, Paramjeet Singh, Abha Thakur,
Semester 3: Narinder Pal Singh, Bhaskar Thapa, Mohit Kumar
Semester 4: Reshma Tulani, Manoj Gupta, Rohit Kr. Gohra
Best student of 2009: Narinder Pal Singh (AAASP)
Best Projects:
Animation – AAASP Team (Rohit Gohra, Vivek Bhardwaj, Narinder Pal Singh, Ashwin Thukral)
Web – Abha Thakur
The main events were of course the Fashion Show, as well as the group and solo dances. A pciture gallery of the same is below:
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Arena Chandigarh AAASP student, Ankush Thakur won the Award for the Best Entry in the Web Portal Category at the Annual Creative Minds 2009 competition at New Delhi for his submission titled “Teen Channel”. He had created a website aim at Teenagers with the content covering all areas of interest to the teenagers. He was competing against 50 other Arena Centres of North India.
The function details were:
Creative Minds
Date – 19th November’09
Time – 11:00 Hrs Onwards
Venue :
Kamani Auditorium
No. 1, Copernicus Marg
New Delhi – 110001
Land Mark – Near Mandi House Metro St.
Faculty Seminar / Creative Guru
Date – 20th November’09
Time – 9:00 Hrs onwards
Venue :
Jamia Humdard Convention Centre
Humdard Nagar
Near Tara Apartment
New Delhi – 62
Land Mark – Near Sangam Vihar
Placement Expo
Date – 21st November’09
Time – 10:00 Hrs
Venue :
Shankar Lal Concert Hall
Faculty of Music & Fine Arts
Delhi University, Mall Road
New Delhi
Land Mark – Near Vishwa Vidalaya Metro St.
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