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Presenting Bimal Podar

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Presenting Bimal Poddar – National Award Winning Animator

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Born in West Bengal, he completed his graduation in Fine Arts from Govt.  College of Art & Crafts, Kolkata. Bimal made his first animated short film ‘HOME DELIVERY’ during his student years at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India. In 2004 he moved to Mumbai and started his career as a visualizer. He has since worked for several companies, corporate houses, brands, and a couple of blockbuster Hindi feature films in Mumbai. Later, he started his own animation studio – Fairycows Animation Studio.

Radha is his first attempt as an independent film maker.
Links to more details about him and his work:
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/fairycows
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fairycows
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fairycows.
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Presenting Baba Bangali – Parts 1 & 2

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Prosenjit Ganguly – Animation Designer, Screenwriter, Educator – Part 1
Date: 03 Apr 2021   |   Time: 05:00pm IST

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An animation designer, feature screenwriter and education enthusiast, PJ -as he is fondly called- gets his best life lessons from children, stray dogs, long walks and beautiful failures. In an atmosphere of uncertainty, instability, competition and confusion, young minds delving into visual-arts and entertainment for a living, need creative nurturing of a very special kind. Here’s A look at the journey of learning with learners since the summer of ‘93. 

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Prosenjit Ganguly – Animation Designer, Screenwriter, Educator – Part 2
Date: 11 Apr 2021   |   Time: 05:00pm IST

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Presenting Soumitra Ranade – Parts 1 & 2

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An alumnus of Sir JJ School of Arts Mumbai (Gold Medalist) and FTII Pune, Soumitra has been writing, directing and producing a wide range of animation and live-action projects in feature films, TV serials, documentaries and short experimental genres. His work has been showcased at various prestigious international film festivals and has received numerous awards.

His most famous works include children’s feature films Jajantaram Mamantaram and Goopi Gawaiyaa Bagha Bajaiyaa (screenplay) and animated TV Serials Karadi Tales and Bandbudh Aur Budbak. His documentary on Afghanistan Khoob Asti Afghanistan? received international acclaim and his recent live-action feature film Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyun Aata Hai? released all over India in 2019 and is currently streaming on Netflix and Amazon Prime. He was the Animation Producer of Bombay Rose and VFX/Animation Supervisor of Ghode Ko Jalebi Khilane Le Ja Riya Hoon.

He is currently working on Kabuliwala – an animated adaptation of Rabindranath Tagore’s classic short story.

Soumitra has written and designed numerous books for children and has had three photography exhibitions. He is the Founder-Chairman of Paperboat Design Studios and divides his professional time between Mumbai, Kolkata, Hyderabad and Toronto.

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After a captivating 2 hours session on the Mar 20, 2021, we are happy to bring the second part of Soumitra’s journey, which will cover animation production, writing and direction for shorts and feature films and the setup of an animation studio.

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Presenting PC Vikram

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He is an animation industry veteran with 25 years of experience working with prestigious international companies across multiple extensions such as gaming, comics, commercials and film. He’s served as an overseas animation supervisor for Disney, Dreamworks and Nickelodeon, worked as an art director on Direct to Home features for Mattel, created and developed Little Krishna for Nick India, international commercials such as Fanta for Psyop and also gaming properties such as Bravely default and casual gaming giants like Zynga.

International clients and domestic startups apart, Vikram enjoys building art communities and teaching the art of animation and design thinking and is affiliated with prestigious organizations in India and overseas.

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Germán Casado – Senior Generalist at ILM London

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Germán Casado Fraga -Senior Generalist at Industrial Light & Magic- London, UK
Date: 10 Apr 2021   |   Time: 05:00pm IST

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Born in Valencia, Spain in 1981, ever since he can remember he was drawn to comics, animation and later video games and computer graphics. He studied Fine Arts with a specialization in animation and painting and on graduating, worked in a few small TV animation / advertising companies in the Czech Republic and Spain, where, as he says, “I was doing a bit of everything”. He went on to work at Ilion Animation as a matte painter and after a few years, moved to London, where he worked on TV animation (The Amazing World of Gumball), Commercials (The Mill), and is currently working as Senior Generalist at Industrial Light and Magic.

Among the many high profile projects he has been a part of are:
Solo: A Star Wars Story – The Train Heist Environment
Bird Box – Jungle
Avengers : Endgame – Final Battle Environments
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – Pasaana & Ajan Kloss Environments. 

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