In this competitive era where everyone wants to set themselves apart from the rest of the world, it becomes a challenge to accomplish that. Since childhood, one has been taking part in various competitions and olympiads pertaining mostly to maths, science, english, hindi and other such subjects to be a notch higher than others. What lacks here is that for people who want to venture into the creative fields like animation, visual effects, web designing, don’t really have a common exam which would help them be a step ahead from the rest of the world. To bridge this gap, The Maharashtra Cosmopolitan Education Society-Pune in collaboration with TheGraphicSlate.com is all set to launch India’s first ever Olympiad pertaining to Graphics Designing, Web Designing, Animation and Editing & Visual Effects.
What is Animation Olympiad?
Animation Olympiad is the most unique platform for all the creative aspirants (Students and Professionals) of Animation and Multimedia field to come on a common Platform and show their fundamental skills. What sets it apart from the rest of the animation related exams is that it’s a National level competition and is giving platform to students as well as professionals to test their knowledge in their own creative fields and at the same time, get more educated about it.
MCE Society’s Director, Rishi Acharya gave more light on why this initiative was started by saying. “The objective to start this initiative is to provide an interesting platform to design and animation community of India. There are thousands of students and professionals working in this field and they need a motivation factor to rate their skills and talent. Animation Olympiad is a right platform for that. Besides that it connects you with some most prestigious animation and design studios, and students particularly get chance to qualify for their Interview round.”
This Olympiad shall be held in two rounds: First would be an online MCQ based exam, from which candidates will get shortlisted and will proceed to the next and the final round which will be the Portfolio round. Since the competition is at a national level, Round 1 of the competition will be happening online. One can take participate from any part of the country with the specific technical configuration recommended for exam.
Why Participate?
The answer is quite simple. In this cut-throat competitive era, getting a national certified certificate will make it easier for employers to select one as common benchmark which has already been established. Though there are couple of design and animation contest happening but the balance combination of testing Theory and Practical skills both is a rare thing. This Olympiad provides a platform to participants where they can test themselves on both the parameters.
Another important point is that Animation Olympiad gives one a platform where they get a chance to not only meet but also interact with heads of various prestigious media and animation studios. Apart from this, they are also giving away various exciting prizes to the winners.
How does this competition work?
Round One will be an online exam round which will include MCQ on the fundamentals of selected track on participant. The tracks are Graphics Designing / Web Designing / Animation / Editing & Visual Effects.
This 60 minutes exam round will contain 50 questions and the top 50 Candidates from each track will be selected for Round 2.
Participants who will be advancing to the second stage will be assigned a creative task whose showreel after completion has to be submitted to the Jury of Olympiad along with the original source files.
What’s in it for you?
Everyone participating in the competition will be given a certificate. Participants from Round One and Round Two will be awarded with a certificate of participation in National level Animation Olympiad. These certificates will not only give you an upper hand while it comes to seeking jobs but will also boost one’s morale.
The winner of this online competition shall be awarded with an Apple Mac Book Air. The first runner up shall be awarded with an HP laptop whereas the second runner up will be awarded with a Sony PlayStation Game zone. Also, the winners in all the categories will be getting a placement assistance opportunities.
Registrations for Animation Olympiad have already began and the fees is very nominal; Rs 100 for students and Rs 500 for Professionals for each track.
For more details of competition date, curriculum and other doubts related to Animation Olympiad, Log on to the official website of Olympiad-.http://animationolympiad.org
