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Meet Tarun Lak

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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

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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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Presenting Tim Allen

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Date: 28 Nov 2020   |   Time: 5:00 pm IST

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A stop motion animator for 20 years, Tim Allen was a key animator on Wes Anderson’s Oscar nominated film Isle of Dogs. His other credits includes Fantastic Mr Fox & Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride & Frankenweenie. As well as animating on Oscar winning Peter & the Wolf & Oscar nominated My Life as a Zucchini, he’s served many years of TV series work including Fireman Sam, Postman Pat plus Shaun the Sheep & Creature Comforts USA for Aardman Animations. Tim was Animation Supervisor on The Magic Piano and also the stop motion Club Penguin specials for Disney.

Tim has an extensive background in teaching animation techniques for trainee animators of all experience levels. Here is a link to his latest short: https://timallenanimation.co.uk/nobodyisnormal/

www.TimAllenanimation.co.uk
Vimeo: @TimAllenAnimation
Twitter: @TimAnimation
Instagram: @TimAllenAnimation.

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Presenting Peter Tan

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Our friend Peter is back after many a year and will be showing various breakdown reels from Avengers Endgame, and also talking specifically about the performance / facial work done on Smart Hulk.

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Peter is a Lead Animator at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) Singapore. ILM is a Visual Effects company with multiple studios across the globe. Peter first joined the company in Dec 2006 and his first project was the TV series Star Wars, The Clone Wars. He then joined the film division in 2009 and worked on Rango and has since worked on multiple feature films such as Transformers, Avengers, Pacific Rim and many more. He is currently working on the next installment of the Jurassic World movies.

DATE: 21st Nov, 2020
TIME: 05:00 pm
VENUE: Live – Zoom / Youtube Stream

There is no recording of this session per request of the speaker.

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Ajit Rao – Part 1&2

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My time spent in the Animation profession has been very brief. However it was aligned to my larger journey of understanding the Indian essence in terms of thought and content. In this session I would like to share aspects of this brief journey – the struggle, the training, the personalities encountered, the roadblocks faced and the potential ways forward. The presentation will be in the form of an informal chat with accompanying visuals/videos ending with question-answer interaction.

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To call him an animator, would be a gross understatement of his abilities. He can wear other hats, just as proficiently, like that of an architect, a cartoonist and many others. He can hold his own just as well with experts of archeology, history, mythology, folk art and one cannot forget educationist. His explorations are steeped in Indian tradition and yet manage to be refreshingly contemporary. On this journey of personal growth, he has been blessed with many gurus like B. V. Doshi, Mario Miranda, Ram Mohan, Kaj Pindal, Derek Lamb, Walter Spink, and others, each leading lights in their own fields. Always a student and a great teacher, he has groomed many of the country’s animators and inspired many others.

DATE: 31st Oct & 7th Nov, 2020
TIME: 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm
VENUE: Live – Zoom / YouTube Stream