Indian Animations

Green Gold Animation has yet again launched a pioneering venture in the Indian Animation space. The creators of Indian kids‘ favourite animation character on TV ‘Chhota Bheem‘ have opened ‘Green Gold Store‘ in Hyderabad an exclusive outlet for Green Gold character merchandizes in various categories. The store started operations earlier this month and so far has garnered amazing response. The 150 sq.ft store is located in Eat Street, Necklace Road, Hyderabad surrounded by beautiful lawns, restaurants, recreational facilities and good view of the city of Hyderabad along with the lake. Advertisement Green Gold Animation Founder & Managing Director Rajiv Chilaka shared, "We have started to setup Green Gold Stores which would be a chain of specialty stores selling only Green Gold related items, some of them exclusive. Green Gold Store is a business unit of Green Gold Licensing & Merchandising India, Pvt. Ltd. Thanks to our hugely popular shows, we at Green Gold managed to est...

The Pink City of Jaipur is known for its International fame. Very soon, along with films, a new chapter of Animation films is going to get added to the industry. Jaipur International Film Festival Trust announced the beginning of PINK EYE ‘Jaipur Animation Film Festival‘, in a press conference organised in the Pink City press club recently. The father of Indian animation and also the advisory board member of Jaipur Animation Film Festival (JAFF), Ram Mohan told media that animation industry hasn‘t been able to reach its heights in India, as it was aimed for, but there is a very good scope of its development and its growing really fast. Jaipur Animation film festival is not only a great achievement for the pink city but for the whole of the country. And he said that he had great faith in this festival that it would give a new platform to the animation film makers. Festival spokesperson, Dharm Pal told the media that though the world is now globalised, creation and development has alwa...

The Walt Disney Company in India yesterday announced the appointment of Mr. Avinash Pant as Executive Director, Marketing, Walt Disney International. The role reports to country manager, Managing Director, Mr. Mahesh Samat. In this new ro le, Mr. Pant will be responsible for building the Disney brand by driving the company's marketing strategy, coordinating all Disney business marketing efforts and providing leadership in developing key global and local franchises in India. Avinash will also oversee corporate communications as well as the Creative Design Cell and Live Events functions. "We are focused on building a family entertainment brand in India," said Mr. Samat. "Avinash will be charged with creating and maximizing opportunities for families to enjoy and connect with Disney's creativity and content," he added. "India is one of the most exciting and rapidly changing markets in the world. This role represents an exciting opportunity ...

Asifa India recently organized a CG Meetup in Mumbai. The speaker of CG Meetup this time was the winner of IAD’08 Awards of excellence, Mahee Pal. The event was held at Whistling Woods International campus. Mahee elaborated on his style of creative development of animated short films. He started the session by playing the Bengali music which inspired him to make the movie- “The Adventures of Lalkamal and Neelkamal” an 11 minute short which won him the Asifa best animated short film (professional category) award. The character inspiration behind the movie is shadow puppets which was his inspiration since he was 4 year old. Later in the session he gave the audience ideas about how to make short films which included the process of consumption-digestion-mani ​festation and also shared the levels of story development. Advertisement The first thing should be the brick and mortar approach then the filling of the story and later the important stages which decide the ending of the...

Bakery Relight™ is a relighting and rendering suite tailored for the production of 3D feature films. Our software has been designed from the get-go to hone the lighter's workflow. Instead of having a 3D program coupled with a separate renderer, we propose constant interactive visual feedback in the rendering engine itself. Thanks to a fully multithreaded implementation of state-of-the-art rendering algorithms, combined with a unique caching mechanism of our own recipe, lighting iterations that would take minutes or even hours with a traditional approach can be performed in seconds. It is composed of three main components: An interactive lighting application. A rendering engine. A set of auxiliary tools for efficiently managing the entire lighting process: Command line tools for batch processing. Interactive tools for visualizing the data generated at each step of the rendering process. Conversion tools from 3rd party formats (...

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Prime Focus has announced the launch of a new division, Prime Focus Productions. Headed up by newly-appointed managing director, BAFTA award-winner Rod Brown, the division will neatly complement the broad range of post-production services already offered by Prime Focus, and provide broadcasters and directors with concept-to-delivery expertise for TV drama productions. The first project is already underway, an adaptation of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman‘s best selling novel, Good Omens, scripted by Monty Python‘s Terry Jones and Gavin Scott of Small Soldiers fame. STV is funding script development and will be a co-production partner for the project. Ex-Mob Film Company partner and executive producer, Rod Brown, joins Prime Focus with 23 years experience in the industry. His credits include Sky 1‘s Hogfather, for which he won a Television BAFTA, Colour of Magic, Going Postal and Sky‘s long running drama series Dream Team. Rod‘s role will be to establish Prime Focus Production...