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Discovery of the week: AnimationMentor.com’s Free e-book - “Animation Tips & Tricks”
From this week onwards, I will be blogging about one new “Discovery of the Week” that I want to share with all AAA readers.
This week’s special-
The Online Animation School - AnimationMentor.com is giving away a free e-book called “Animation Tips & Tricks” by Shawn Kelly. All you need to do is sign up. The book is the first collection of all the tips and tricks that appear in the Animation Mentor monthly newsletter. Judging by their high standard of teaching and the calibre of the ‘mentors’, the book should be informative and extremely useful for all animation students.
Written in a witty, tongue-in-cheek manner, the book covers a wide range of topics including ’spotlighting expressions’, ‘contrast in pose and timing’ and ‘transitioning your style’. Learn what ‘randomblinkitis’ is. ‘Rise above the snobbery’, ‘impress the recruiters’ and ‘recharge your animation batteries’. If all this has piqued your curiosity, head over to their download page and sign up.
Shawn Kelly is one of the co-founders of AnimationMentor.com. He is also the winner of the 2008 VES award for The Best Single Visual Effect of the Year for his work on Tranformers and he continues to work full-time at Industrial Light & Magic as an animator.
TASI’s next event: Music for Animation on 23rd Feb at IDC
The Animation Society of India’s next event will be held on 23rd Feb. - Music For Animation by Tapas Relia.
Date: 23rd Feb. 2008
Time: 2:00 pm onwards
Venue: IDC Auditorium, IIT Campus, Powai, Mumbai
Entry Fee:
The session is FREE for TASI members
Non-member professionals: Rs.100/-
Non-member students: Rs.50/-
For pre-registrations, you can send an email to ritesh@tasionline.org
Seminar Outline
• Importance of music in the world of animation
-How music helps enhance character expressions
• Technology makes things easier and opens up possibilities
- Inevitable use of software
• How to approach a film
- The process of music production for a film from scratch
• The importance of sound-effects
- They make the animated film “believable”
• What you should know (as animators) about music
- The importance of editing “to the beat”
- Synchronize with the composer
- Composer friendly “story-board”
• Questions from audience
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About Tapas Relia
Hailing from Ahmedabad, Tapas Relia is a Music Composer/Producer based in Mumbai for the last 12 years. He is one of the leading names in the Indian advertising industry with many trend-setting jingles, including the very popular “Kya Aap Close-up Karte Hain” for Close-up toothpastes and the Amaron batteries ad.
He also has the distinction of composing for India’s most successful animated film “Hanuman” and the more recent “Return of Hanuman”.
Lots of news… tie-ups, launches and recruitments!
The last couple of days have seen a lot of activity in the Indian animation industry. Here is a quick summary of all the news in February so far…
Panel Comix launches Happy Days and Little Pandavas Comic.
Hyderabad, 12th Feb. 2008
Panel Animation Studios Pvt. Ltd. launches its comics division Panel Comix, with “Happy Days”, India’s first film based comic and “Little Pandavas - The Beginning”, based on the 90 minutes fully-animated feature film, as its first offerings to the public.
IG Fun & INDIAGAMES to bring the award winning ‘BioShock’ to mobile.
Barcelona, Spain, Mobile World Congress, 12th Feb. 2008
IG Fun LLC, the international publishing arm of Indiagames Ltd, India’s benchmark online and mobile games company; today announced it will bring BioShock, one of the most awarded PC & Console games in the history of gaming, on the mobile platform. IG Fun secured the global rights to develop and publish BioShock for the mobile platform from 2K Games.
DQ Entertainment Limited & Percept Picture Company enter a three animation film co-production MoU.
Chennai, 11th Feb. 2008
Recognizing the potential and acute need for high end animated Indian films in Indian animation industry, DQ Entertainment (DQE) and Percept Picture Company (PPC) proudly announced their 3 animation co-production memorandum of understanding signed recently. The films are slated for 2009-2010 release and will be in the genres - Mythology, Super Hero, Bollywoodish and Animal Kingdom.
Graphiti Multimedia Pvt. Ltd. Launches Recruitment Drive.
Mumbai, 8th Feb. 2008
Graphiti Multimedia Pvt. Ltd. is an original animation content creator. With a vision of becoming a global leader in content creation. Graphiti is expanding it people base in all technical and creative departments. Graphiti is looking for professionals who have the passion to create original ideas and develop them into final animation properties.
Warner Bros. Motion Picture Imaging (MPI) and Prime Focus form Strategic Alliance.
Mumbai, 5th Feb. 2008
Warner Bros. Motion Picture Imaging and Prime Focus have entered into a strategic alliance that will allow both companies to expand their abilities to offer their state of the art digital post production capabilities to filmmakers on a global scale. The agreement will provide filmmakers around the world with access to the expert talents and services both companies have been providing through their state of the art facilities. It also allows both companies to manage their workflows more efficiently between Warner Bros. MPI in Burbank, and Prime Focus’s facilities throughout multiple locations in India and London as well as in New York, Vancouver, Winnipeg and Los Angeles.
FREE Toon Boom Storyboard Seminar on 9th Feb.’08
Toonboom and CGTantra in partnership with Rahul Commerce and Whistling Woods International are organizing a free Toon Boom Storyboard Seminar for animation, live action and VFX professionals and students.
Date: 9th February 2008
Time: 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Venue: Whistling Woods International Institute of Film, Televisio, Animation and Media Arts.
Film City Complex, Goregaon (East), Mumbai 400065
Tel: +91-22-2841-6000
Click here to pre-register.For more information, visit the CGTantra website.
Click the poster below to view a larger version.
Free Lighting and Compositing Workshop at Graphiti School of Animation
Graphiti School of Animation is organizing a FREE workshop on Lighting, Rendering in passes & Compositing a scene on the 1st of Feb. 2008.
Venue:
Graphiti School of Animation
A unit of Graphiti Multimedia Pvt. Ltd.
404, Udyog Mandir No 2, Mogul Lane,
Mahim West
Mumbai - 400016
Maharashtra, India
Phone : 91 22 24440107, 32448544
Date: Friday, 1st Feb 2008
Duration: 3 hrs - 1pm to 4 pm
TASI’s “Animation For Those Who Cannot Draw!”
With a fabulous turnout of 250 plus people, the TASI workshop titled “Animation for those who cannot draw!”, began on all the right notes! The TASI team had planned this workshop with the intention of initiating a new outlook towards animation and the encouraging response was proof enough that there are many who nurture a desire to animate but fear their own lack of drawing skills. The 5 hour session was held on 19th Jan. at Mumbai Educational Trust (MET) in Bandra, the heart of Mumbai city with registrations open students, professionals and novices alike. Sanjiv Waeerkar, Creative Director, UTV, who conducted this interactive workshop is also a former TASI committee member.
TASI event : Animation for those who can’t draw!!
The Animation Society of India is kicking of its 2008 series of workshops with an exciting, 5 hour interactive session with Sanjiv Waeerkar, Creative Director, UTV.
“Animation for those who cannot draw”
To be held on Saturday, the 19th of January, it is open to anyone who loves animation but lacks the skills!
Understand the beauty of animation; learn performance and observation skills. Participate in interactive group exercises, where you and the team will create animation.
Don’t miss this fabulous opportunity!
Limited seats.
Entry on first come basis
Members of TASI may contact Ravish on 9833105305 for pre-registration
Non-members, please contact Ritesh on 9869403527 for details
Visit www.tasionline.org for more details
Date: Jan 19, 2008
Time: 2:30 pm onwards
Venue: MET - Mumbai Education Trust, Bandra Reclamation, Bandra West, Mumbai
“At Arm’s Length” : Modelling workshop by Graphiti:
Graphiti School of Animation is organizing yet another free workshop, this time on Modelling. Titled “At Arm’s Length”, details are as follows-
Date: Friday, 4th Jan. 2008
Duration: 3 hrs – 1pm to 4 pm
Venue: Graphiti School of Animation - Class room.
Eligibility: Should be an animation student from institutes or should be working as an animation professional
Prerequisite: Should have knowledge of Basic Modeling in MAYA
Presenters: Savio Fernandes (Modeler – Graphiti studio, Graphiti Alumni - Batch 2006-2007, winner of Sculpting challenge at CG Tantra) & Lidwin Mascarenhas (Senior Faculty - Modeling)
The workshop is free of cost.
The seats are limited to 20 in each batch. If they get more registrations, they will run more batches on a later date.
Registrations: Contact Graphiti at 32448544 / 24440107
This workshop is organized by Graphiti School of Animation in association with CG Tantra.
