Congratulations on Prayan completing a year!!!How do you feel about it?
Thank you so much for the lovely wishes!!! When we made a decision of starting up an animation studio, we knew that there were going to many challenges lying ahead for us, and hence we were extremely cautious with all our project decisions. We started our studio with a four member team and today we’ve built up to 25 artists working in varied divisions at our studio. Looking down the line, we feel very happy and proud of ourselves, and are confident that soon we would prove to be a strong competition in this industry.
Please enlighten us about the services that your studio offers?
Prayan Animation Studio delivers 2D Digital Animation, Flash Games, Flash Web Designs, Graphic Design, Animated TV Episodes, Animated Home Videos, Comic Books, Pre-production packages, Storyboards, VFX. Our ultimate goal is to be a service provider for Feature films.
What was the basic idea behind forming the studio?
The main aspect behind forming the studio was to outsource, get good projects and deliver it with a greater quality .Our focal point has always been prove that India can achieve great animation quality in every genre, which can range from educational content or even high end feature films.
And what is your vision after a successful time span of a year?
We plan to grow into one of the finest and reliable animation studio in India by providing incredible quality work, thereby creating a new era of Animation. Production is our mission. In the coming time, we plan to create a better studio by expanding our team with around 60 new artists and provide more employment opportunities to the budding animation aspirants.
Please share more about the founders of the studio?
The studio is formed by me along with Remesh Ramachandran and Kannan PS. I and Remesh started our career in animation as Flash animators. During the years 2006 to 2012, we’ve worked with many major Indian Studios and acquired deep knowledge of various styles of Animation. As time passed by, Kannan ventured out as successful entrepreneur by starting his sole Web Design and Development Company in Trivandrum. And then, together, we decided to start a new Animation Division and thus Prayan Animation Studio came into existence.
Could you take us through the experiences that you and other founders have in the Animation Industry?
I’m the CEO and Managing Partner of the Studio. I started my career as a Flash Animator at Toonz Animation India and have since then I’ve been a part of various studios. And, after my job role as a flash animator at Accel Studios and Big Animation, I joined hands with Ramesh Ram to form Prayan and happy to share about my fellow partners which is given below:
Remesh Ram: Managing Partner:
Ramesh jumpstarted his career as a Flash animator in Animation Dimension and has since been part of various studios in India. After the last term as a Flash animator in Reliance BIG Media, he joined hands with Vinayan and formed Prayan Animation and is the Managing Partner.
Kannan PS: Managing Partner
Kannan kick started his career as a 3D Animator with Toonz Animation India. And, later in 2011, he started a web designing and development company at Trivandrum known as Win wrench Software Solutions
Vinu Thomas: Director – Operations:
Vinu has completed 13 successful years in the Animation Industry, when he joined to take care of the production management. Since then he has managed, controlled and supervised the production of various shows from television specials through series and Full length Feature Films. Crisis Management, Man power management, implementation of production procedures, making quality animation, prompt delivery on time within the budget specified, managing the out-sourcing business of the organization and maintaining warm relationship and communication with every clients is his expertise. He has taken the role of Overseas Production Manager to deliver the Wolverine and the X-Men for Marvel from Seoul, South Korea and also has firsthand experience in out-sourcing to various animation studios in China, Manila and Korea.
Please take us through the projects you have worked on?
We are working on an animation series of 400 minutes which orbits around Educational Biological Lessons along with an 96 Page comic book for an LA client and also are in progress of completing a 10 minute animated film ‘Bark’ along with handling a multitude of Logo Animation web designs and web development.
Could you share more on this Educational Biology animation series?
In this project, we’ve transformed the education syllabus of Canadian Government Institute into a 2D animation short film series. Each short film ranges from 30-40 minutes. A 12 member team is working on the project and the biggest challenge for us is to maintain the essence of the subject and animating it. To make this hurdle easier to deal with we are seeking help of a Biologist. The animated series will premiere on social media portals this month. And post completion of this project, we would be heading towards creating animation series for subjects Chemistry and Physics.
So what’s happening on the comic book front?
We’re handling the storyboard, lay outing,line up and coloring of an international comic book titled ‘Bullet Proof Knight and it has been three months that we’ve been working on this project. Currently we are in the final completion stages of this book and we feel that maintaining international quality and delivering the design styles is the prime challenge for us. We’ve made use Manga Studio Ex for drawing the shots for the comic book
Can you inform more on the ‘Bark’ Animated short film?
BARK is a 2D animated, 10 minute short film which revolves around a dog and depicts the emotions and the selfishness of human nature and how the humanity in people is slowly fading off, and where we can find them. We’re doing this project for Mannar Ragesh, who is an independent director inclined towards directing live action movies. At present the short film is in its production stages and the main idea behind creating this concept is to educate the value of kindness and humanity.
Are you developing original IP in the form of TVC, Tele Series of Feature Film?
We are concentrating on out-sourced and sub-contract works commercially. We do have plans to expand our Concept/Creative team to start our own IP content for TV Series and Feature Films. We are also in the last stages of negotiation for two animated series.
