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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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TASI April session: Animation Production Management

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Registrations have been closed! For spot registrations, be at the venue at 12:30 on Sunday, 12th April.

Animation Production Management by Ranjit Singh (Tony).

……… A non-techical session, it will highlight effective, yet easy to use methods that can bring about a sense of discipline in everyday work and yet retain the fun in animation. Effective communication techniques that can solve most issues before they become problems. Artists should get time and space to create art, they should not be filling forms and maintaining productivity / progress reports and nor should they be bogged down with the huge data that they generate.

Topics covered will include:

•    Introduction to Animation Production
•    Application of Management Principles – A different look
•    The Visual Production Process
•    Tips for HR
•    Aspects of Project Management
•    Designing Effective Systems
•    Scheduling – Need, Importance, Relevance and Impact
•    Scheduling – How to
•    Estimations – How strategy impacts scheduling
•    Color and its importance
•    Data Management Techniques
•    File & Folder management
•    Asset Handling
•    Communication -Importance and Tips
•    The Delivery Process
•    Checklists and Sample Tracking Sheets
•    Client Management -Do’s and Don’ts
•    Budgets (if time permits)

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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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Masterclass with the Master Himself: Session Details

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Learning from Ram Mohan Sir himself!

Date: 5th Dec. 2008
Time: 3 pm to 6 pm
Venue: Whistling Woods International, Film City, Goregaon East, Mumbai

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM

1. Character Design – Approach
a. Personality Based
b. Design Based

2. Personality Based Approach
a. Based on Physical Appearance
b. Based on Attitude
c. Stereotypes
d. Breaking the stereotypes

3. Examples of Character design from my works
a. Realistic
b. Anthropomorphism

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM

1. Interactive session
a. Give the Audience 3 different Character description
b. They choose and make one on the spot. They will need to carry paper and pencil. They can try all the three designs.
c. Give them 20 mins to finish
d. Collect the drawings
e. Sort the drawings and Choose one best from each category

2. Retrospective of Ram Mohan Sir’s career (While the sorting of drawings and selection is going on.)
a. A Look at some milestones in Ram Mohan Sir’s career
b. Some of Ram Mohan Sir’s Film clips

3. Q & A – 1

5:00 PM – 6:00 PM

1. Design Based Approach
a. Head to body proportion
b. Suggesting volume
c. Stylisation

2. Taking the 3 chosen drawings
a. Adapting them to current prevailing approaches
b. Adapting characters to different mediums (Film, TV, Flash etc)

3. Q & A – 2

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