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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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A whopping number of festivals have just announced their Calls for Entry. This includes opportunities for animators as well. Also in the mix this week are big opportunities for student filmmakers and short films, as well as rapidly expiring deadlines for some of the circuit’s unmissable events. Do not waste any more time and submit your film NOW!
QUICKLY CLOSING:
- Southern Circuit - Tour of Independent Filmmakers
- 360 | 365 George Eastman House Film Festival
- CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival (CANADA)
- Rincon International Film Festival - Puerto Rico
GO GLOBETROTTING (outside USA):
- Libertas Film Festival, Dubrovnik (CROATIA)
- European Film Festival
- Bay Street Film Festival (CANADA)
- Renderyard Short Film Festival (SPAIN)
JUST ANNOUNCED:
- DotFest - International Online Short Film Festival (SWITZERLAND)
- FirstGlance Film Fest Philadelphia TwentyTen
- HATCHfest Asheville & Bozeman
- Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival
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
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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- Practice Sessions for Annual Day Events
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- Practice Sessions for Annual Day Events
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- Practice Sessions for Annual Day Events
AAASP and BSc (Animation and Multimedia) Students are vigorously preparing for the Annual Day. Specially important for them is to win since the events are also pitted as a AAASP vs BSc competition. Students can be seen preparing in the students lounge during whatever off time they can get. Especially the preparation of group events is taking it’s toll on their patience as they grapple with Late-Lateefs and slowly grasp the nuances of man management and hone their organizational skills.
An Annual Day is a very important phase of learning the role of authority and responsibility. A student must participate in the events whether backstage or on-stage to learn various aspects of these important life skills. It is well known that 50% (if not more) importance is attached to a person’s personal skills or life skills as is given to their professional skills. For a career in Academics it is much more important that this.
Seminar at Strawberry Fields School
Arena Faculty were invited to present a Seminar at the Strawberry World School. The Faculty who interacted with the students were Sushree, Pre-Production and Maya Expert with specialization in rigging, and S. Vijay Kumar, Maya Expert with specialization in animation.
The students were very interested and curious and checked out various career options available after school. Some of them were keen to know if they could take up the careers right from their school days.
The faculty clarified all doubts besides delving into the basics of what goes into becoming a top animator. The were able to unravel the field of animation before the young minds and helped make their career decisions easy.
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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Student Travelers share their experiences
Student Travelers share their experiences
A group of students and faculty travelled to be a part of the Chitrakatha experience at National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad. The second edition of the Chitrakatha International Student Animation Film Festival was on at NID’s Paladi campus from 29th to 31st October.
The students travelled by train and road to reach there and were able to have a private showing of their stop-motion movie “Galti Kiski”. This helped them learn a lot through the critical analysis of so many sincere artists at Chitrakatha.
The students also expressed their journey through video and sketches capturing the spirit of the event as well as the journey. The journey with a faculty itself is a huge learning, and surely going by their recitals, they were not deprived of this.
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- Student Travelers share their experiences
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- More students listen on
On their return, they showcased some interesting movies and even shared their experience of the tour in a form of a small Seminar for the other fellow students.
Parmod Kumar and Puneet Arora, the students witnessed the Festival in Ahmedabad told the students how they felt on meeting “Important” People from the Industry. “Sketching is the key to success in the Animation World. I have realised it late but this is the fact.”Parmod shared. Other student Puneet Arora told the students that “Industry is very different from what we visualise, people there are very practical, they know how to work.”
Manpal Setia, alumnis, National Institute of Design said , “Its really beneficial to visit such seminars and Film festivals. You learn alot and also inspires you to work more. This is the only chance to see movies from all the parts of the world and be updated.” Showcasing the movies which were nominated in the Festival, he also explained the way the movie production is done and also gave some details about the makers of the movie.
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- the 44 feet mural installation at Arena Chandigarh
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- the left brained
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- the right brained
The wall mural painting project was started on 24th October and went on for 5 days i.e. 28th October. The Visualizing and painting team consisted of 1 Senior faculty and around 15 students. The team was led by NID trained Manpal and consisted of students from BSc (Animation and Multimedia), AAASP and DAE3D students.
“From a light box to a tree,
from a ninja to the deep sea.
Ravishing Zebra to a flying Turtle,
Birds flying the the red sky..so Subtle!
Walking eye looks so tempting,
Watch the birds transforming.
It looks like a beautiful dream,
Full of colors, cakes and cream.”
Each frame in the mural speaks a different story. Moreover for the students it was really fruitful session of “How to handle Colors?” Many of them tried their hand in coloring a wall for the first time in their life and though it became the difficulty too for some time.
There was a special “Night Squad” which consisted of the faculty and 7 students who used to work the whole night. Chai (tea) really helped the “Night Squad” to stay awake and work. Its always fun to play with so many colours.
The mural measures 44 feet in length and took a couple of manenthus (yes manenthu is bigger than manmonth) to complete. The insomnia made the whole experience transcendental. The end did justify the means and the final result was something that elicits wows from many SCDL student examinees besides being a must visit “attraction” on the campus. Well the number of must visits is going very high now and we need to make a tourist map just in case the visitor loses his way 
Cheers !
Do you know why was President Barack Obama nominated for Nobel Peace Awards? A tell-it-all Video of the Ceremony (Film in 3D made on 10 Oct 2009).
The faculty and students of Arena Animation Academy, Sector 17, Chandigarh, India, have made it in 3D, under guidance of the Art Director and Creative Team of VirtualSoft. So go on and enjoy NOW!
