Arena Chandigarh Sector 17, won the biggest award at Orbit Live. It won the Award for the Best Arena Animation Centre in India at Orbit Live because of the works of it’s students. This award is the culmination of the hard work done by the centre, it’s faculty, students as well as the academic heads over the last 20 years.
Arena North Zone held the Creative Minds 2016 on 3 August 2016. Arena Chandigarh 17 bagged 2 Winners in 7 Contests! Winners were Prasoon and Vikas in Visual Effects, and Garima in Animation Sequence, Arena 17 had 2 more prizes in other contest. Navneet Mann in Character Design and Balpreet Singh in 3D Architectural Visualization came 3rd in their categories.
All of the Winners were included in the National Contest at Orbit Live 2017. Arena Chandigarh 17’s entry in Animation Sequence was adjudged as best in India. This proved a fact which the Top Indian Studios like MEL (Maya Entertainment Limited), DQ Entertainment, Xentrix, Eeksauras, Philm Studios Pune, Trace VFX already know. Ou student’s are today a part of all Top Studios in India and have taken lead role in the studios’ success.