Toonz Animation Studio bags Anifest TVCA Award 2013 for Swami Ayyappan
The promo of Swami Ayyappan , an animated feature film made by Toonz Animation Studio, has won the Anifest TVCA AWARDS 2013 in the best film commissioned category.
January 20th, 2014
The promo of Swami Ayyappan , an animated feature film made by
Toonz Animation Studio, has won the Anifest TVCA AWARDS 2013 in the best
film commissioned category. Swami Ayyappan was chosen the best film
under commissioned category from among 150 entries out of which 21 were
shortlisted.
Mahesh Vettiyar and Chetan Sharma,
the directors of the film, received the award. Swami Ayyappan is
based on the life story of a boy called Manikandan, who became a god. He
is believed to be born out of the union between Lord Shiva and Vishnu
in his Mohini avatar. The film has the right mix of fantasy, action,
adventure, mythology and history and is sure to delight audience of all
ages. More than being a film on a mythological superhero, it is the
message of religious tolerance and secularism that Swami Ayyappan
highlights, said P. Jayakumar, CEO, Toonz Animation India Pvt. Ltd.
Animation - A new trend at International Childrens Film Festival - Hyderabad
With new interest in children s films, specially animation, the 18th International Children s Film Festival, India, (ICFFI) is set to carry forward the movement by presenting an interesting bunch of 200 films from 48 countries. Starting Thursday, the event is expected to be attended by 150,000 children.
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.
