Viral Thakkar addresses students on the thrilling experience of the making of Bollywood Blockbusters - Singham & Bodyguard
December 19th, 2013
BIG AIMS (Animation Infotainment & Media School), a premier animation and VFX training academy of Reliance Animation, today successfully conducted their mega seminar on The Making of Bollywood Blockbusters - Singham and Bodyguard, at BIG AIMS centre, Business Point, Pali Ram Road, Andheri West, opposite Andheri Station in Mumbai. The seminar has been very well received by young aspiring film makers and Animation, VFX enthisiasts from across the city.
Viral Thakkar, Head of Computer Graphics Department, Films Division at Pixion was the key speaker at the seminar. With rich experience of over a decade in handling projects for some of the countrys most recognized Animation & VFX films like Golmaal 3, Bodyguard, Aarakshan, Singham, Delhi Belly, Double Dhamaal, Toonpur Ka Superhero among others, Viral addressed young aspirants on the art of Animation & VFX in Bollywood movies. He attended to student queries on all the topics pertaining to behind the scene scerets of Bollywood Blockbusters.
Legendary animator, producer and director Arthur Rankin Jr. Dies at 89
Arthur Rankin Jr., the animator, producer and director behind the whimsical holiday stop-motion TV specials Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Frosty the Snowman has died at the age of 89.
Budget 2012 - 10 years tax holiday required for animation industry, says FICCI
FICCI in its pre-budget memorandum has given the following recommendations for Animation, Gaming & VFX industry:
On the lines of IITs and IIMs, Government should consider setting up Centers of Excellence for the Animation, Gaming & which also offers opportunities for applied and commercial and others type of arts.
Phenakistoscope (1831) A phenakistoscope disc by Eadweard Muybridge (1893).The phenakistoscope was an early animation device. It was invented in 1831 simultaneously by the Belgian Joseph Plateau and the Austrian Simon von Stampfer. It consists of a disk with a series of images, drawn on radii evenly spaced around the center of the disk. Slots are cut out of the disk on the same radii as the drawings, but at a different distance from the center. The device would be placed in front of a mirror and spun. As the phenakistoscope is spun, a viewer would look through the slots at the reflection of the drawings which would only become visible when a slot passes by the viewer's eye. This created the illusion of animation.
