Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Tuesday, September 9, 2014
FICCI : Media and Entertainment Business, 29-30 October, Bangalore
FICCI is all set to conduct Med and Entertainment Business Conclave this year from 29-30 October at Bangalore. Technology perspective of Media and entertainment including film, TV, gaming, mobile and new media will be the spotlight of this MEBC edition.
Promising sessions on Indian Animation, VFX and gaming market will be witnessed in this 5th Edition of MEBC with panel discussions on Formulating & Implementing a viable Media & Entertainment policy for a State, Reshaping Mobile entertainment in the era of Digital Revolution, The Emerging Trends of Indian IP in Animation & its exploitation and The Emerging gaming Industry in southern India.
Kamal Hassan, Chairman, FICCI MEBC, says, “The focus would be on “effective proliferation of meaningful content in the backdrop of digital technologies and the array of new media”. Traditional platforms have been disrupted and new methods for the future need to be adopted in order to create and monetise content. For this, skill development for the industry needs special discussion and a road map.”
Panel discussion on Formulating & Implementing a viable Media & Entertainment policy for a State will focus on developing infrastructure, local skills, technology, and explore possibilities on how to develop the Media & entertainment eco system for a State.
VFX enthusiasts should join in to experience a session on how to create cost effective Visual Effects for Indian movies and also a detailed making session on VFX of Kamal Hassan Starrer Vishwaroopam.
Emerging Trends of Indian IP in Animation & its exploitation will shed light on’ what does it take to create a product that is internationally marketable and acceptable? And will be moderated by Dr. Ashish Kulkarni-CEO, Reliance Animation with panelists Krishna Desai – Turner International. Sharad Devrajan- Co Founder & CEO, Graphic India, Smita Maroo – Shemaroo Entertainment, Nishit Takia – Co Founder, Krayon Pictures and Rajiv Chilaka- Founder, Green Gold Animation
Speaking to AnimationXpress.com, Leena Jaisan, Senior Director & Head – Media & Entertainment, FICCI, says, “For the first time such an initiative encompassing all sectors of M&E is happening at Bangalore. Stalwarts from all the fields will be present and we are expecting record number of delegates this year too.”
The Indian gaming industry has evolved speedily in recent times and to bring out the current scenario of emerging gaming Industry in south India, a discussion on the same will be moderated by Rajesh Rao of Dhruva Interactive and panelists will be Anshuman Rudra- Studio Head, Tiny Mogul Games, Bharti Soft Bank, Jugul Thachery- Co Founder, Chaywoo Games, and Lalit Patel- Co Founder, Bash Games.
The International Animated Film Society, (ASIFA) call for entries,42nd Annual Annie Awards
On 3 September, The International Animated Film Society,
(ASIFA) – Hollywood issued a call for submissions of entries, for the 42nd
Annual Annie Awards. Today, ASIFA-Hollywood is the world’s first and foremost
professional organisation, which promotes the Art of Animation.
The Annie Awards will be held on 31 January, 2015 at Royce
Hall on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles.
There are a total of 36 categories this year, which include
Production, Achievement and Special Juried awards. A new category that is Best
Character Animation in a Video Game has been added this year. In most of
the categories, the participant will be allowed to submit his film, only if it
has been released in the United States between 1 January, 2014 and 31 December,
2014. Exceptions have been made for animated Short Subjects, Student Films and
Television Commercials even if they have not been released in the US.
This year, the Annies have added a Special Productions
to the list of category projects that do not have to be a US production, as
long as the submitted project has been released in 2014. The deadline to join
ASIFA-Hollywood or to renew membership, to become a Sponsor, and to submit
entries and materials is midnight Monday, 5 November, 2014.
DreamWorks Animation’s How to Train Your Dragon 2: crossed the $600,000,000 mark
DreamWorks Animation’s How to Train Your Dragon 2 continues
to breathe fire into the global box office as it officially crossed the
$600,000,000 mark on Labor Day. A
record-breaking opening in China coupled with phenomenal success in territories
around the world have catapulted Dragon 2 to become the highest grossing
animated film of the year and one of the top ten grossing films of the year in
any genre.
On the heels of the success of their latest epic adventure,
Hiccup and Toothless have plans to soar across the big screen once again with
the announcement of the third chapter in DreamWorks Animation’s How to Train
Your Dragon series shifting to a 9 June, 2017 release date.
From the same creative team as the first two films,
writer/director Dean DeBlois and producer Bonnie Arnold, How to Train Your
Dragon 3 will take forward the story where the sequel leaves off (sorry folks,
no spoilers here). Returning cast includes
Jay Baruchel as Hiccup, America Ferrera as Astrid and Cate Blanchett as Valka.
ANIFEST INDIA: TVCA 2014 WINNERS
ANIFEST INDIA 2014 : AUG 20-21-22
Jai Hind College, Churchgate, Mumbai
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TVCA 2014 WINNERS
STUDENT FILMS
Winner: Magarwasi (Dir. Varun Nair)
Runner Up: Chasni – The Sugar Syrup (Dir. Abhishek Verma)
Winner: Magarwasi (Dir. Varun Nair)
Runner Up: Chasni – The Sugar Syrup (Dir. Abhishek Verma)
INDEPENDENT PROFESSIONAL FILMS
Winner: The Wires (Dir. Tatiana Moshkova & Marina Moshkova)
Runner Up: Shades of Grey (Dir. Alexandra Averyanova)
Winner: The Wires (Dir. Tatiana Moshkova & Marina Moshkova)
Runner Up: Shades of Grey (Dir. Alexandra Averyanova)
COMMISSIONED FILMS:
Winner: Guests at my Home (Dir. Oleg Fedchenko)
Runner Up: Take Poo to the Loo – Music Video (Dir. Suresh Eriyat)
Winner: Guests at my Home (Dir. Oleg Fedchenko)
Runner Up: Take Poo to the Loo – Music Video (Dir. Suresh Eriyat)
Thursday, August 7, 2014
Saturday, May 10, 2014
Friday, March 7, 2014
Making of Disney Get a Horse
Making of Disney Get a Horse
Walt Disney Studios’ animated short “Get A Horse!” is nominated for an Academy Award this year. Here is an exclusive Making of Disney Get a Horse Video. Behind the scenes look at the creation of one of the film’s shots.
In order to replicate the look of the classic black and white Mickey Mouse, the studio researched shorts created between 1928 and 1946. We wanted to make it feel like you were back in 1928, We essentially had to train our artists away from perfection and do things like not register Minnie’s feet to the ground. There was also a ‘film damage’ pass added which had film lines and dirt.
The stunning reveal as the characters jump in and out of the screen going around in a circle onto a stage required meticulous co-ordination between 2D and 3D. We drew everything on paper and cleaned everything up on paper too first, On the shot running in and out of the screen in the circle, we had Adam Green our head of CG animation and Eric Goldberg our head of 2D animation work together. I think in one day they passed that shot back and forth to each other four times.
We got a rear projector to show what it would actually look like when they come on the screen and then once they pop out of the screen, to make it feel like it was an old-time movie projector. Then we did a lot of camera work with that research to make sure we could actually translate that onto the screen.
And we knew right from the beginning this would play right into stereo. When Mickey pops out of the screen onto the stage, we had to make sure that stage was just right, so that when you’re in the theater it looked right. Most movie theaters don’t have a stage, so we had to do test after test by going to different theaters to make the platform/stage look right in stereo.
The short’s throwback to Disney’s animation heritage extended not only to the final look, but also its sound. As it turned out, Walt Disney Imagineering had a library of authentic sound effects from the 20s and 30s which made it into the film. And even Walt Disney’s voice, itself, features as the voice of Mickey Mouse. It took our crew three and a half months to pull all the dialogue from 1928 to 1946, We had everything in there except for the word ‘red’. We could not find ‘red’ anywhere. So our associate editor went through and pulled a ‘arr’, ‘eh’, ‘deh’ out of Walt’s dialogue and created the word red!
In order to replicate the look of the classic black and white Mickey Mouse, the studio researched shorts created between 1928 and 1946. We wanted to make it feel like you were back in 1928, We essentially had to train our artists away from perfection and do things like not register Minnie’s feet to the ground. There was also a ‘film damage’ pass added which had film lines and dirt.
The stunning reveal as the characters jump in and out of the screen going around in a circle onto a stage required meticulous co-ordination between 2D and 3D. We drew everything on paper and cleaned everything up on paper too first, On the shot running in and out of the screen in the circle, we had Adam Green our head of CG animation and Eric Goldberg our head of 2D animation work together. I think in one day they passed that shot back and forth to each other four times.
We got a rear projector to show what it would actually look like when they come on the screen and then once they pop out of the screen, to make it feel like it was an old-time movie projector. Then we did a lot of camera work with that research to make sure we could actually translate that onto the screen.
And we knew right from the beginning this would play right into stereo. When Mickey pops out of the screen onto the stage, we had to make sure that stage was just right, so that when you’re in the theater it looked right. Most movie theaters don’t have a stage, so we had to do test after test by going to different theaters to make the platform/stage look right in stereo.
The short’s throwback to Disney’s animation heritage extended not only to the final look, but also its sound. As it turned out, Walt Disney Imagineering had a library of authentic sound effects from the 20s and 30s which made it into the film. And even Walt Disney’s voice, itself, features as the voice of Mickey Mouse. It took our crew three and a half months to pull all the dialogue from 1928 to 1946, We had everything in there except for the word ‘red’. We could not find ‘red’ anywhere. So our associate editor went through and pulled a ‘arr’, ‘eh’, ‘deh’ out of Walt’s dialogue and created the word red!
Thursday, March 6, 2014
Crazy Cub Animations: The Birth of Snugglish
Delhi based Crazy Cub Animations that is founded and spearheaded by Kamal Pahuja has created a 3D Animated Short titled ‘Totlings- The Birth of Snu
gglish’. Inspired by the characters of animated film ‘Despicable Me’, this 2 minutes 20 seconds short’s story line was provided by the team of Totlings, a Company based in Los Angeles.
gglish’. Inspired by the characters of animated film ‘Despicable Me’, this 2 minutes 20 seconds short’s story line was provided by the team of Totlings, a Company based in Los Angeles.
Crazy Cub team was provided with basic character designs of this short and initial designs were very outlines of the characters done in Adobe Illustrator.
Short was created in 3 and half months time and a month was taken for executing the Pre-Production.
Speaking to AnimationXpress.com about this Totlings- Birth of a Snugglish’, Kamal, Director of 
this short, says, “We reworked on storyboard a number of times till we were satisfied with the overall flow of the story. I feel Pre production is a very important aspect, and if you get it right, it saves a lot of production time.”
this short, says, “We reworked on storyboard a number of times till we were satisfied with the overall flow of the story. I feel Pre production is a very important aspect, and if you get it right, it saves a lot of production time.”
On the research front, Crazy Cub took referred to Despicable Me for studying facial expressions and mannerisms of kids and then instilled it into this short.
Kamal adds here, “Along with studying other movies, my son was also a great reference for understanding kids.”
Kamal adds here, “Along with studying other movies, my son was also a great reference for understanding kids.”
Credits for this short go to, Arun Priya Gautam , Reenu Kamal and Kamal Pahuja for Art Direction, Concept Art – Arun Priya Gautam, Character Modeling and Texturing – Priti Singh Awadhesh Rana, Environment Modeling & Texturing – Awadhesh Rana, Rigging Artist – Aarchish Jain, Animation by Akshata Bhatt, Pooja Krishnan, Preeti Baisoya, Rohan Sikarwa, Sagar Singh, Sachit Anand, Lighting / Rendering – Jatin Parkash, Compositing and Effects – A. Ramesh, Editing - Kamal Pahuja, Background Music and Sound Effects – Dejan Craevic.
Animating the short in 3D was the choice of Totlings team and Kamal considers this medium as the strength of this short.
Adding more on the look and feel, he says, “As the story is happening in a cute and magical world of Totlings, Crazy Cub decided to have a bright, colorful and soft feel to the characters and the environment.”
Magical effects along with lots of lighting and color enhancements were done during Post Production of this short.
“I think the biggest challenge in this project was to maintain simplicity and cuteness.” Shares more
Crazy Cub is presently working on Next set of Tunetoons videos and other 3D animated commercials.
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