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TASI speakers show how its done @ IFFI

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The An

imation Society of India made its debut at the prestigious International Film Fest

ival of India at Goa this year. TASI presented a variety of films including a retrospective of Indian animation, contemporary and upcoming feature animation films. Amongst its distinguished speakers were the maestros – Bhimsen and VG Samant. Ram Mohan who was also scheduled as part of the original troika could unfortunately not be present due to urgent commitments back home. The retrospective films attracted an interesting crowd to the hall. Films from yesteryears that shaped many a career were showcased bringing back pleasant memories to the seniors in the audience. The highpoint was an interaction with the Gurus where they shared lesser known facts about the history, making of, concepts and hardships they faced while making the films.

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Animation Production Management : A Session Report

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A 150 strong audience set the pace for the much awaited session on Animation Production Management conducted by Ranjit Singh (Tony). Taking an unconventional approach, the presentation started with a case study on a non-animation project. Tony explained how the basic principles of production management are common across different fields. Life becomes simpler if you analyze a project carefully, break it down into manageable tasks, commit resources intelligently and monitor the progress regularly. Animation production management, he explained, is about common sense, more than anything else. Most projects run into trouble because of lack of proper planning and control over the execution. Whether you are an independent artist, student or a professional working for an organization, production management has to start with you, he said. The best systems, procedures and pipelines will fail miserably if there is no belief that organization and discipline go hand in hand with hard work. Planning in the absence of control over the execution is as good as not planning at all.

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Excuse please Sir, which Software do you use?

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The much anticipated full day workshop on Clay animation in association with Vaibhav Studios was held on Sunday March 22. A house full of enthusiasts got down and dirty with thermocole, aluminum wire, tools and modeling clay to build a range of interesting armatures. Guided actively by the team from Vaibhav Studios ( Vaibhav Kumaresh, Arvind Chudasama, Chandni Chudasama, Vasanth Kumar and Ashwin Nandihalli) participants were encouraged to create structures using their own imagination.

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Making of TZP – Part 3 : Vaibhav Kumaresh

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Vaibhav Kumaresh: Making of the 3 x 9 sequence

We got a call from Aamir Khan productions and they said we need to send them our showreel. We were thrilled just to get a call from them. After some more days we got a call saying we need to meet now. We were even more happy. We fixed up a time and went and met Aamir for the first time. This was around 3 months before the release of the film and we had to deliver 1 month before the release because there were many things – post-production, colour grading and writing onto film – to be done after the final visuals were done. Final sound had to be done. So we figured that we have just 2 months production time.
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