Flip Book Animation Workshop for Kids

Vaibhav Kumaresh, assisted by Mahboob Raja (Head of Animation Production at Vaibhav Studios) conducted a full day flip book making workshop for a group of 40 children from four different NGOs working towards the betterment of the disadvantaged children (NGOs: Aarambh, Doorstep School, Pankhudi Foundation and Vidya). The children were accompanied by their representatives and teachers. The workshop was organized by Mohile Parikh Center, NCPA  Mumbai on Saturday, 19 December, 2009. Read more

Animation Production Management : A Session Report

A 150 strong audience set the pace for the much awaited session on Animation Production Management conducted by Ranjit Singh (Tony). Taking an unconventional approach, the presentation started with a case study on a non-animation project. Tony explained how the basic principles of production management are common across different fields. Life becomes simpler if you analyze a project carefully, break it down into manageable tasks, commit resources intelligently and monitor the progress regularly. Animation production management, he explained, is about common sense, more than anything else. Most projects run into trouble because of lack of proper planning and control over the execution. Whether you are an independent artist, student or a professional working for an organization, production management has to start with you, he said. The best systems, procedures and pipelines will fail miserably if there is no belief that organization and discipline go hand in hand with hard work. Planning in the absence of control over the execution is as good as not planning at all.

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Excuse please Sir, which Software do you use?

The much anticipated full day workshop on Clay animation in association with Vaibhav Studios was held on Sunday March 22. A house full of enthusiasts got down and dirty with thermocole, aluminum wire, tools and modeling clay to build a range of interesting armatures. Guided actively by the team from Vaibhav Studios ( Vaibhav Kumaresh, Arvind Chudasama, Chandni Chudasama, Vasanth Kumar and Ashwin Nandihalli) participants were encouraged to create structures using their own imagination.

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