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VCL bucks the trend. Plans to increase workforce 5 times over!
While there’s talk of recession, layoffs and pink slips all around, Visual Computing Labs (VCL), India on the other hand is looking to increase its team strength 5 times over!
Sources from the company revealed that VCL, which is a division of Tata Elxsi, plans to increase its headcount from the present 300 to 1500 animators and special effects artists over the next three years. Having completed ‘Roadside Romeo’ they are now working on three more animation films, TV shows for Germany and bidding for large Hollywood projects.
Arena Animation organizing Creative Minds & Placement Expo on 16th & 17th Nov.
Arena Animation, one of India’s oldest players in Animation & Multimedia training, is organizing Creative Minds, an inter-centre competition for its North zone students along with a Placement Expo on the 16th & 17th November in New Delhi.
Toonz to animate Santa Claus for 2010 Christmas release.
Toonz Animation is all set to foray into feature-length 3D animation, and how! The Thiruvananthapuram-based studio which had earlier created the animation for Hanuman is now going to animate the life of Santa Claus.
Singapore based Toonz Entertainment, which owns the Indian animation studio Toonz Animation India, has tied up with Gang of 7 Animation USA and Hyde Park Entertainment USA to produce a CG animated feature film “The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus”, based on the classic book by L. Frank Baum, the creator of ‘The Wizard of Oz’.
14 contenders named for the Oscar for Best Animation
As we approach the end of the year, it is time for a lot of speculation over the Oscars. This year 14 films have been shortlisted, the front-runner being (my personal favourite!) Wall-E, Disney/Pixar’s latest masterpiece, and the others being DreamWorks Animation’s Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa and Kung-Fu Panda, Israel’s award-winning animated documentary - Waltz With Bashir, London-based Framestore Feature Animation’s first film The Tale Of Despereaux, Blue Sky Studio’s Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears A Who!, Disney’s stereoscopic 3-D Bolt, CG Fantasy films - Delgo and Dragon Hunters, stereoscopic 3-D film - Fly Me To The Moon, Igor, Australian stop-motion film $9.99, and the Japanese anime titles The Sky Crawlers and Sword Of The Stranger.
Waltz with Bashir does mix in some live footage towards the end of the film and I hope it doesn’t go down the same path as Alvin and the Chipmunks did last year, getting disqualified later on a small technicality.
All About Animation website revamped!
It’s been close to a year since we launched All About Animation and we felt that the time has come to give our readers a lot more ‘new’ stuff to look at, learn, explore and share. As the first step, we have completely revamped the main website with many more interactive features being added over the next two months.
Following this, there will be changes in the Blog and the News site, besides the addition of many more new sub-sites as well. We look forward to reader feedback and suggestions. Happy surfing!
India gets its First Ever Professionally Managed Gaming Team
Just received a press release announcing the formation of India’s first ‘Gaming Team’ - “INDIAN INFERNO”
Indiagames, India’s benchmark online and mobile games company and a leading global developer and publisher of mobile games and the E-Sports Council of India announced the formation of India’s first professional gaming team – Indian Inferno.
Get Ready For ANIFEST INDIA 2008!!
IT’S BACK!!!
TASI’s much awaited ANIFEST INDIA 2008 will be held this year on August 15th, 16th and 17th at IDC, IIT Powai in Mumbai.
They have already announced the ‘Call For Entries’ for the Viewers’ Choice Awards and this time there is an added category too.
1. Short Films : Students
2. Short Films : Professional
3. Advertising Commercials
The last date for submitting your entries is 15th July, 2008.
Lots of exciting stuff is being planned and with the beautiful IIT campus as the backdrop, there will be many interactive and hands-on workshops this year.
TASI Upcoming Session on 31st May: Pre-production for Animation
On Saturday, 31st May, 2008 at the P C Saxena Auditorium in IIT Powai, Mumbai, TASI is holding session on Pre-production for Animation.
Three speakers will share their recent work and elucidate on the entire process of conceptualizing and planning up untill the actual production begins.
Santosh Sawant - Creative Director, Phoebus Creations, Mumbai
Uttam Pal - Independent Animator & Film-maker, Mumbai
Rudra Matsa - Founder & CEO, Panel Animation Studios, Hyderabad
With examples from their own films, the speakers will take you through the process from concept to the final blue-print. Phases discussed will include intellectual property (IP) creation, story, script, storyboarding, animatics, character and environment design, colour keys, sound design and much more!
Visit the TASI website for more information.
