The new year has begun with a bang for animation. If mid January has Indian animation’s ”whos who” getting together at the Nasscom Animation India summit, the end of the month has the renowned IIT come up with its animation workshop.
Techfest, IIT Mumbai’s annual science and technology festival is the largest festival of its kind in Asia. The festival aims at educating and informing students about the latest advances in science and technology. This year amongst the many workshops to be held at Techfest is the animation workshop.
The animation workshop would be spread across 3 days and would feature Masterclasses being taken by Professor Shilpa Ranade, Claymation expert Nandu and Flash animation specialist Abdul Qaziz.
Says, IIT student Kshitij Torka who is handling the marketing for Techfest,” We have already recieved more than a thousand registrations for the workshop but are screening the applicants as we want only those students who are serious about the subject to attend. Of all the registrations we recieve only 150 shall be accepted”
The schedule for the Animation workshop to be organised at Techfest is as follows –
Day 1
28 January 2005 (1pm to 5 pm)
Animation movie session followed by discussion, query and a hands-on session. To be conducted by IDC’s Professor Shilpa Ranade. This session would be followed by a hands-on session where the participants would put forth their animation ideas in a sketch format.
Day 2
29 January 2005 (10 am to 2pm)
3D animation with a distinctive emphasis on Clay Animation. To be conducted by Nandu – the man behind the proficiently designed Top Ramen Noodles advertisements. After a brief display of his masterpieces, he would discuss on how to give life to the clay models – the skill of designing an armature for a given model, covering both the theoretical and the practical aspects. This day would have a concurrent hands-on session for creating 3D clay models.
Day 3
30 January 2005 (10 am to 1pm)
Flash Animation. To be conducted by Abdul Qabiz currently working with Macromedia Flash.
“The workshop would be over, but the spirit to create and animate would just have begun” says IIT student Mayank.
