Sachin In SAREES

Yes...For fancy dress competition in his college days.

cgTantra and Frameboxx organize seminar on animation & visual effects NEXT ON BANGLORE 17th May

cgTantra in association with Frameboxx organized a seminar on animation and visual effects in Delhi recently. The event saw a host of Animation Industry professionals descend upon Delhi, to participate and present in the symposium.

The aim of the seminar was to educate the nascent animators and animation aspirants about the bright career opportunities in Animation and to increase awareness on the intricacies involved in creating world-class, award-winning animation content.

The professionals present included PC Vikram of Big Animation Studios, the team from the Oscar winning Rhythm & Hues involved in the making of The Golden Compass, Uttam Pal Singh of Santa Banta Series and cgTantra‘s Abhishek Chandra.

The aficionados witnessed the making of some famous movies such as Oscar winning Golden Compass, Little Krishna and Santa Banta Series. As a result, the people present at the event were endowed with a theoretical as well as a practical insight into animation.

There was also a question and answer session which included questions on how much creative freedom one would get, and which fields animators can specialize in.

"The seminars were part of the all-India ‘Learn, Inspire, Grow‘ (LIG) series held by cgTantra. This series aims at spreading awareness among freshers who aspire to enter the animation industry and expose them to the aspects of animation," shared Chandra. The next seminar will be held in Bangalore on May 17, 2008.

FLASH GOES MOBILE..!

Adobe Systems Inc. says it will license its video-enabling Flash software for free for mobile devices to help developers make mobile Internet experiences more closely resemble the experience on computers. The world’s fifth-largest software maker is launching what it calls the Open Screen Project with support from phone makers Motorola Inc., Nokia Corp., Samsung Electronics, Sony Ericsson and Toshiba Corp., from chip makers Intel and Qualcomm, and from content providers including NBC Universal, MTV Networks and the BBC, among other companies. With the Open Screen Project, Adobe said, it aims to improve Internet experiences on all electronics, including computers, TVs and digital video recorders. But mobile devices are a particular focus.

Many mobile applications have met with disappointment from consumers. And game and video developers have been burdened with cranking out numerous versions of applications for mobile devices, said Kevin Lynch, Adobe’s chief technology officer. “You have to make over 100 different versions of that game in order to actually make it work across all these different phones,” Lynch said. Notably missing from the list of industry supporters for Adobe’s project is Apple Inc. The iPhone maker does not use Flash on its smart phones, and Chief Executive Steve Jobs has publicly criticized Flash for being too slow. Adobe says it’s working on a version of Flash for the iPhone — now that Apple has released the information needed to custom fit the software to Apple’s operating system.