Category Archives: Past Events

Presenting Maroto El ‘Bambino Monkey’

Live from Spain. Date: Feb 13, 2021   |   Time: 5pm IST.
Live streamed on Zoom and YouTube.

Talking about his interesting career journey as he shared tips on character design and his creation process; and in a rare live demo, watch him design a character from scratch using an impromptu brief from the audience –  “A young hippo wrestler with split personality of a shy girl“. And this is what he did!!!

And -Tanaya Vyas in the audience was quick to share a meme of his art with us. We’re truly impressed by the observation. Thank you Tanaya.

Click here to read more about El Bambino Monkey

 Maroto aka Bambinomonkey, is a Spanish illustrator and character designer working in the animation field for 16 years. He mostly works in the advertisement space and for the VFX industry. His style is simple and strongly influenced by cartoons and he loves cats. He does however think that sleepers are the definitive shoes.

 

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Presenting Girgit Studios

The Colorful Journey of GIRGIT STUDIOS
Date: Jan 23, 2021    |     Time: 5:00pm IST

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Girgit Studios is one of India’s leading Animation Design Studios founded in 2011 by NID Alumni – Swarup Deb, Avinash Medhe and Anuj Kumar, with the vision to emerge as a studio applying design thinking in content development and mastering the art of storytelling through the medium of animation to reach an audience beyond just kids. Over the years Girgits continue to gather diverse experiences working with some of the finest brands and professionals. They transcend boundaries of medium be it 2D, 3D, Stopmotion animation or mix media. Girgit Studios provide script to screen animation services and Design Consultancy for TV, Cinema or Digital platforms for Educational, Promotional and Entertainment purposes of its clients. 

Their IP and commissioned short films have been awarded and recognized and loved by audiences and festivals in India as well internationally.

FoundersAnuj, Avinash and Swarup were batchmates at the National Institute of Design while pursuing their PG. They co-founded Girgit Studios, an Animation Film Design studio based in Pune, India. The trio brings in the right blend of Design thinking, Visual storytelling and Execution finesse. They have crafted and delivered over 125 animation projects ranging from TVCs, Promo films, PSAs, explainers, Music Videos, short films and more, and gathered international acclaim for their work. Their short film 09:09F was selected as the best film in the Professional Short Films category by the audience at Anifest India 2019.

ANUJ is an artist at heart and scientist at brain. This enables him to effortlessly juggle art and technology and create spectacular visual experiences. He experiments with various techniques of animation and is in love with motion in art. Don’t ever leave your stuff near him or else, you may find them alive and moving! SWARUP, an engineer turned designer is a master of all trades. He intuitively puts together a client’s fragmented brief and initial ideas of his creative team, to build that essential bridge between the two. He makes sure that all the gears of the entire Girgit machinery are well oiled and creatively engaged. AVINASH is a storyteller, a poet, web worm and a film buff. He was born with a filmy spoon. He breathes cinema. While all others just watch a film, his brain defragments it into camera angles, shot taking, background score, visual narrative and so on. 

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DeComposing with Srikant Krishna

Date: Jan 09, 2021    |    Time: 5:00pm IST

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A Music Composer, Orchestrator who has worked on several acclaimed projects, Srikant studied at the Berklee College of Music, specialising in Scoring for Film, TV and Video Games.

Join us for this exciting session where he will talk about his craft with demos of his work to show how music translates into the media. For more information about him,  here is a link to his website.

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Meet Tarun Lak

TASI Presents
Tarun Lak – Animator – Pixar Animation Studios – Part 1 & 2

Date: Dec 20 & 27, 2020  |   Time: 11:00 am IST
These sessions were live streamed but not recorded as per speaker request.

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An Indian-American animator currently working for Pixar Animation Studios. Born in Miami, Florida, he moved between Atlanta and India, spending the better part of his childhood in Chennai. To pursue the dream of becoming an animator, he moved back to the US to go to Ringling College of Art and Design, where he majored in Computer Animation and landed a job in commercials upon graduation. He’s since animated on a handful of feature animations at Laika, Sony Pictures Imageworks and Pixar. Currently working on Pixar’s 2021 film titled “Luca” out in summer. During his free time Tarun likes to work on his personal art to explore his voice.

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Presenting Vaanarsena Studios

Vaanarsena Studios loves Animation and Indian Stories. Our goal is to tell Indian stories. Stories from the subcontinent. Stories from the scriptures and history and stories from villages and folklore. Our mission is to take these stories as far and wide as we can.

Date: 05 Dec 2020   |   Time: 5:00 pm IST

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Senapati of this fun endeavor, Vivek Ram, with his vast experience in both 3d and 2d animation spanning over 20 years, hopes to infuse a dose of freshness into the industry. He gets bored pretty easily, so we can be rest assured the style and subject of the content here is gonna keep changing!. Click here to know more about him.

Here is a link to their website Vanarsenastudios
Instagram: @vaanarsenastudios

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