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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.
20 years of NID : Presentation by Binita Desai at the Chitrakatha 2007 Festival
With just 7 days left now for the launch of the website, we are getting experts on the subject of animation to write for us as well.
On the first day of the Chitrakatha Festival at NID, there was a special presentation by Binita Desai, Associate Professor, Animation Designer, DAIICT, Gandhinagar, to commemorate the completion of 20 years by the animation department at NID. She has generously shared the transcript of the presentation for our readers.
A wonderful selection of films by students through the years was screened after Binita’s compelling talk on the origin of the animation department at NID and all the people that made it possible. Here is a list of the films that were screened followed by the transcript of Binita’s presentation.
Chitrakatha Day 3 : An Experimental Path - Selected works of Cal Arts students’ graduation films
A beautiful exploration of possibilities in experimental animation was presented by Isabel Herguera, herself a Cal Arts Alumnus. There is no formula for this kind of animation. No right way or wrong way. Experimental Animation is more about empowering your work.
Animation is a discipline that combines everything and that was reflected in the selection of films screened:
Excerpt by Lucas Walker
It goes without saying by Una Lorenzen
Anamorphic trap by Beom-Sik Shim
Crank Balls by Devin Bell Bob and Julia by Jee Hyun Yoo
The Representation of Absent Things by Donna Golden
Ripe Rock by Max Winston
Dear Alphabet by Marina Budovsky
Chitrakatha Day 2 : Spanish Animation Scene
Spanish Animation Scene - a selection of recent, short animation films.
Presented by Alfred
The aim of this presentation was to showcase simple to complex Spanish films, some made by native Spanish animators living outside Spain and the others by non-Spanish animators living in Spain. Alfred put it succinctly - “We are not Spanish people”, he said. “We are people from the animation world”.
The showcase was also about the way that the films are made. About how people from a small industry and a small world make films. The power of the idea is
CHITRAKATHA 2007 - The triumph of originality!
The 3 day Chitrakatha International Student Animation Festival 2007 ended on an optimistic note with the screening of some brilliant, original animated films by Indian Animators. The success of this festival has proved that there is great hope for the future of the Indian animation community. We really do have supremely talented animators in India and NID has been the nurturing ground for a majority of them.
Kudos to the Chitrakatha ‘07 team for having put together such a good show. The selection of films, programmes, workshops and panel discussions was in keeping with the theme of the festival - “everything original”. Right from the posters to the T-shirts to the mascot to the theme animation, each and every element of Chitrakatha had been created lovingly and painstakingly by the students and faculty of NID. A daily newsletter was printed everyday by the students, with interesting tidbits of information and comments and interviews of the delegates. You will find in-depth coverage of the event here on the allaboutanimation blog.
As proud supporters of the festival, we really do hope that they make this an annual event and wish them all the very best!
Chitrakatha ‘07 International Student Animation Fest WINNERS
Winner : Memorial
by Matte Clausen and Jon Gutman
University of Southern California, USA
1st Runner up : Norbert
by Michael Hill
RMIT University, Australia
2nd Runner up : The Tide
by Mette Skov
Den Danske Filmskole, Denmark
Jury Special Award : Aal im Schaedel (Eels)
by Martin Rahlow
Filmakademie Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
Special mention by Jury for Indian film : Three little pigs
by Bhawna Vyas
National Institute of Design, India
Day 2 at CHITRAKATHA ‘07 : Highlight - Panel Session on Animation Education and Industry Trends
The panel discussion was a highly thought-provoking and completely interactive session, where several pertinent issues were raised. Moderated by Anand Gurnani of Animation Xpress, the panelists were:
Prakash Moorthy, Head, Animation Dept. Miditech, India
Vaibhav Kumaresh, Vaibhav Studios
Simi Nallaseth, Director, Epiphany Films
Amit Anand, CEO, EttanimA Studios
Binita Desai, Associate Professor & Animation Designer, DAIICT, Gandhinagar
Arnab Chaudhuri, Animation Film Director
Basav Raja, Independent Animation Designer
The first question was addressed to to Arnab, who is currently directing his animated feature, Arjun.
“While directing your animated feature- Arjun, what kind of team are you trying to build and what are the challenges that you face in doing so?”
Arnab: We had a very short time to build the team. The biggest challenge is that the industry is
Chitrakatha ‘07 Day 2 : “Chai Break”
First up on the second day of the Chitrakatha Fest was a presentation by the 2nd year students of the PG Animation programme at NID on their experimental animation project titled “CHAI BREAK”.
A group of 10 students (Aishwarya, Arpit, Grishma, Mrinalini, Debjani, Dawa, Troy, Delwyn, Utsav and Rajesh.) is working on a Sand Animation film under the able guidance of Isabel Herguera. The collaborative effort was screened for the audience and the budding animators explained step-by-step how they went from concept to execution. What’s interesting is
