Logo releasing by Kerala Cultural Minister, M.A.Baby
at Kerala House, New Delhi.
ANIYUG 2007- animation film festival
May 4th and 5th of 2007..
Venue - The Townhall, Ernakulam.
Access Atlantech Technologies (I) Limited is a well known name in the media education industry. AAT has strategic partnerships and long term relationship with SAE College, the world’s largest media education college, Digidesign, the world’s largest provider of hardware and software for the film and audio industry and Times Centre for Media Studies to offer courses in journalism and media management. AAT runs 4 campuses in the country at Chennai, Membai, Delhi and Bangalore. More campuses are on the anvil to cover large metros and tier two cities. The courses offered by AAT includes -diplomas and degrees in Audio engineering, Digital Film making, Animation & Visual EFX. The company plans to roll out the Games designing course by June of this year at Chennai.
The Kerala Cartoon Academy is recognized by the Government of Kerala and caters to nurturing talent among budding cartoonists in the country. Incorporated in 1981 it has held more than 600 camps and workshops across the country which had well known names as Abu Abraham, Mario Miranda, Kutty, Sudhir Dhar, Kerala Varma and Ravindran as participants. The KCA has always nurtured art and technology creating a fine balance between the traditional and contemporary.
Commenting in ANIYUG ’07 Mr Monai, Chairman KCA, says “with animation being a big draw for creative talent to come out into the open we find that this is the right time for KCA to host such an event with one of the biggest institutions in the country. This event will also help KCA to get into further pursuits to do with cartooning and animation.”
Mr Sudhir Nath, Secretary, KCA, adds, “we will look at empowering the youth with creative tools and technology thereby taking cartooning as a profession and art to the next level.”
Animation as a concept has grown over the years and has become a part of the media and entertainment industry. Today India can boast of creating full fledged animation feature films as Hanuman, life of krishna Krishna, etc and many more in the making.. Over 40 corporates ,with big names as Reliance, TATA group, Percept, Apollo Tyres, Pyramid group, Sony Image Works, Electronic Arts, Thomson group of France, etc form a part of the animation industry in India. Films cities and SEZs are fast becoming a part of the animation set up in India. The Kerala government being among the first to roll out an SEZ for animation. Kerala as a state has a rich tradition of Arts and aptly speaks for ANIYUG to be inaugurated there. An industry which is slated to take India beyond the ten billion mark by 2011,animation is here to stay.
‘ANIYUG ’07 is a joint effort by KCA and AAT to bring out latent talent in 2D cartooning as a focus and also 3D modeling and showcase such talents to the public. The festival is stated for launch on
May 4th and 5th of 2007..
Venue - The Townhall, Ernakulam.
Entries shall be taken from 10th April 2007and last date for entries is 30th April 2007. More details on this can be obtained from www.saeindia.net The best animation films shall be judged by a panel which is to be announced shortly. Leading personalities are expected to be part of the panel. Said, Mr Rathish Babu CEO of AAT, The industry needs trained hands to grow. Today there is an acute shortage of technical and managerial talent in this industry. Good project managers and personnel with art and technology background will have a great career ahead. Not to mention international projects coming to India and also Kerala in particular. We are looking at a long term association with KCA.
Animation as a concept has grown over the years and has become a part of the media and entertainment industry. Today India can boast of creating full fledged animation feature films as Hanuman, life of krishna Krishna, etc and many more in the making.. Over 40 corporates ,with big names as Reliance, TATA group, Percept, Apollo Tyres, Pyramid group, Sony Image Works, Electronic Arts, Thomson group of France, etc form a part of the animation industry in India. Films cities and SEZs are fast becoming a part of the animation set up in India. The Kerala government is among the first to roll out an SEZ for animation. Kerala as a state has a rich tradition of Arts and aptly speaks for ANIYUG to be inaugurated there.
