Maac Chowringhee Made My Dream Come True- Amiyo

Interviewer: Hi Amiyo, firstly heartiest congratulations for getting your first job with Trace VFX . Going further, we would be happy to know about your qualification and what all projects you handle at Trace VFX?

Amiyo: Hello Sir, thank you so much, I am very happy to be here and glad to get this opportunity to convey my feelings after getting my first job. After completing my Higher Secondary, I could wait no longer to join Maac Chowringhee for learning about the most fascinating subject- The VFX.  Today I am happily working as a Roto Artist at Trace VFX.

Interviewer: Wonderful! You have got a very decent and promising job. So how it feels like?

Amiyo: I feel myself very lucky to clear the interview in a single shot. Trace VFX is a good place to learn and grow. Here working environment is also good.

Interviewer: Amiyo, why did you choose VFX as a line of career, event after completing your HS, you could have gone for higher studies?

Amiyo: As I have already told you that VFX fascinated me since my childhood. To learn about effects always craved in me. It would attract me whenever I watched any Hollywood scene with visual effects.  I wanted to make my career in VFX that is why I did not go for any higher studies.

Interviewer: Why MAAC Chowringhee, what was the reason that you picked it over several others present in your own city?

Amiyo: I have visited many institutes in the city, still could not find a centre as good as MAAC Chowringhee. Especially the awards displayed and infrastructure at MAAC Chowringhee attracted me much...Read More

Maac Kolkata Placement

Maac Kolkata having its presence at 3 centres across Kolkata has helped animation studios, different production houses, television channels, advertising agencies etc to hire freshers and trainees.  In various profiles like VFX Artist, Graphic Designer, Multimedia Artist, Gaming Designer, and Interior designer etc.

We at Maac Kolkata take immense care to each and every students who aspire to join the industry. We prepare them for various job roles so that they become ready to go animator or vfx artist etc in their own domain in global market.

Apart from classroom practical training Maac Kolkata conducts multiple activities to prepare their students to become  professionally ready. The showreel which is the most important part is guided by the trained faculty to each students so that they can exhibit their work at there best of abilities.

Maac Kolkata  conducts personal interviews with eligible students to understand their strengths & weaknesses so that can  provide them with the right career guidance.Maac students who are 1 months away from completing the course are eligible to take part in placement process through placement cell...Read More

I Got My First Job At Deluxe Entertainment Through Maac Chowringhee Placement

1. Hi Sudipta, how are you?

Hello, I am good with all blessings of you and my parents.

2. Can you share with us how’s life is after Maac Chowringhee?       

It’s pretty much easy to say that my dream came true after completing my course from MAAC.

3. How was the experience after learning from Maac Chowringhee?

When I joined my job, from that day till now I always feel it was my one of the best decision to get admitted in Maac Chowringhee, because I had learned a good technical skill that always help me to grow till date.

4. Share some experience of your work in movies?

I have worked for few international projects and I feel myself lucky person to get a chance to work on some of well known blockbuster films. As I am at a responsible designation so I am not able share the film’s names.

5. Did you get lucky meeting any movie star?

As of my role I am in post-production, so never got a chance to meet with any film star. But I had met with some of the film directors and line producers.

6. Since you are working in such a big company like Deluxe Entertainment India, what was the atmosphere over there?

Deluxe India’s working environment is highly professional and healthy; we always love and enjoy working in such environment.

7. What are your future plans? 

This is a hidden magic that I am not supposed to expose but make more dream as a reality.

8. Say something about Maac Chowringhee.

Maac Chowringhee is the one of the best institute because I have met lots of students from different colleges and institutes, but those students are from Maac, they are really more technically sound and best from artist vision, because Maac have great faculties and infra to build a good future for this industries. The course design was very much realistic to be an industry leader.

9. Did you miss any of your staff or Instructor from Maac Chowringhee?

There was no chance to forget our faculties; it is because of them what I am today.

10. Hope you had a great time chatting with us and we at Maac Chowringhee pray for your bright future.

Yes, it was a good chat session and I really enjoyed sharing my thoughts with you. Thank you.

About the Author

Animation kolkata is one of the best and oldest MAAC centre in Eastern India. It is a part of MAAC family since nearly the inception of MAAC in Kolkata and having three branches at Kolkata. MAAC CHOWRINGHEE, MAAC KANKURGACHI & MAAC RASHBEHARI and one in Delhi namely MAAC South Ex. With more than 3000 students taught and over 1000 placed, one of the leading animation institute in Kolkata and INDIA too.

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From A Beginner To A Interior Designer Expert – A Success Story By Maac Rashbehari

1. Describe something about yourself & your journey with Maac Rashbehari.

Hello readers, this is Neha Patel - Interior Designer. I have always loved playing with computers to bring in my ideas and visualization live. So, I understood what I have to do, to be better in what I loved. Merging both design and computers together was a fun idea, and for that I just needed a good course that had specific concentration on subjects of my interest. Which will boost my career? Keeping that in mind I started searching for institutes that offer me a course that fits completely to my requirement and then I found MAAC animation Kolkata.

MAAC Rashbehari had such a great grouping of subjects that were apt for 3d designs. I also saw the project portfolio of pass out students and they were amazing and the quality of work they came up with after completion of their respective courses was exactly what I was looking for.

MAAC Rashbehari had an amazing and supportive group of faculty team who supported me throughout till the end and made sure I was comfortable and satisfied with the learning.

My journey with MAAC Rashbehari was beautiful I learned, interacted, made friends, participated in competitions, attended informative seminars and finally I reached my goal by the end of my course.

2. Are you satisfied with your current career growth?

Yes, MAAC Rashbehari gave me a good hold on 3D designing and visualization. It embedded such level of confidence within me that I could start my own website to showcase my work and write blogs about interior designing.

3. What is the key note for choosing your career in ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN?

Key note for me choosing architectural visualization was to add life to my designs which I represent to my clients. This helps them to understand better what my ideas are towards a project and give them clarity toward the project.

When I was declared as the champion of 24 FPS 2015 Architectural Design category I must say I did not have to look back in life any more it just gave a flying start to my career.

4. How will you grade your mentor at MAAC Rashbehari?

MAAC Rashbehari as told earlier has an amazing team of faculties and provides best animation course in Kolkata which will stand by you till the end, in fact also once you pass out. I am blessed to have such great mentors to guide me through the period of my course and beyond. I have found a great friend in my mentor who understands my capabilities and pushes me further even if I am not sure of myself to reach towards my goal.

5. Why will you refer any one in MAAC Rashbehari?

If I am asked to suggest an institute that offers u a wide variety of courses to choose upon it would definitely be MAAC Rashbehari, not because I have passed out but because it offers you the right course which starts from the basic and will end up like a story that you are quite ready to stand up in stage and narrate it to the world.

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Things to remember when joining the Animation/VFX industry

Career is one of the most important decision one takes in its lifespan. Career decides ones future. If you looking for a successful career in the field of animation and VFX, below are few important points penned down by Animation Kolkata for your better decision making.

1)  Apt knowledge on 2D & 3D software

You need to know a brief knowledge about 2D and 3D animations. When you opt for Animation & VFX you need to learn much software to upgrade your understanding in these fields.

2)    Teamwork

Most important! Working with people means understanding each other. You need to listen to them and at the same time you should have capability to make them understand your point of view.

3)  Know the Path

Animation and VFX are wide. You need to understand where your interest lies. Discover your passion and follow. To understand where the interest lays one can have one on one conversation with their faculty.

4 )  Portfolio

If you planning to get into animation industry it’s the right time to build your portfolio. To build once Protfolio you need to do few researches. Contact to your seniors and take an idea how you can work on it. Once should be ready with a complimenting Portfolio after the completion of course.

 5)    Arranging the portfolio

Nobody has enough time to go through each work you have done. Show them the best you have done. Arrange your portfolio from best to normal.

6)      Patience

Time! Give yourself and your career time to reach stars. People working in this field earn a lot much but after a certain reputation has built. So give time but don’t give up.

We hope our pointers will help you to take a wise decision.

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Stop Motion Animation: Another Approach to Animation

The animation paradise has witnessed many changes over the year. It has jumped on heights dramatically, from hand drawn animation to 3D animation. Animation as a career in this competitive era, the demand of technical skills, a good understanding of art and aesthetics and a unique creative is skill is required. These days’ students concentrate on software & technologies to create an animation film. Experimenting with any other medium is rare.

Stop motion animation is one such medium. This is the form of animation created by physically manipulating real world objects and photographing them, one frame at a time, to create the illusion of movement.

Below are the various kinds of Stop motion animation listed out by animation kolkata:

Claymation (Clay Animation)

It’s one unique form of stop motion animation that uses figures made of clay. It involves sculpture characters and background sets out of clay.

Puppet Animation

It is a technique of incorporating the animation of still puppets. Similar to claymation, the characters and sets are already made in full forms instead of being made while the animation is being shot.

  

Cut Out Animation

Technique of producing animations using flat characters is used in this form. 

Pixilation

This is the most difficult form of stop motion animation. Live actors change their movements in each frame of the animation in this form. They pose while multiple frames are taken and the position changes slightly in each frame.

These are just few examples of stop motion animation.  The medium is just a platform to give your idea a visual presentation.

Keep following our blog for more such informative updates and if you are planning a career in animation then no second thought just join us at Maac Kolkata . 

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Latest Techniques used in 2D and 3D Animation

When the first ever five minute film, Steamboat Willie was released by Walt Disney he never thought that his animation based would form the basis of an entire industry, encouraging new styles in 2D & 3D animation.  The industry has grown since then, both in terms of application and importance in a variety of fields such as entertainment, education, medicine etc. The government and the private sector funded several institutes for the development of innovative techniques to bring objects to life on 2d and 3D screens.

It is now possible to create facial animation using the recent advancements in computer technologies. Before this phase the characters’ faces were nothing more than hand down painting sequences of images to create the illusion of movement. Now in the new era the modern research and development of computer graphics has come to a stage where producers can create climatic wonders such as Avatar. Facial animation has made its place and has come a long way. Sparse Stereo Mesh is a creative technique that has made it possible for animation come close to real life. This technique was made to drive facial contour by reading data from customised markers, kept on the face, with the help of camera lens. The three dimensional mesh of facial information is the incoming data which is then processed on the 3D mesh in the application.

Today, a large number of advanced techniques are implemented for character animation. Every production studio from Pixar to Light & Magic are inspired by Skeleton based animation and motion capture advance methods. Skeleton based animation possesses a hierarchal order of the anatomy of the character that involves a ground plane. Which further allows the physics to take over when the character is set into motion.

Motion capture advance is a tool for character animation while working with 2D and 3D space. That further enables artists to realistically capture character motion.

In the animation industry 2D and 3D techniques have come a long way.  

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24 FPS VFX CHALLENGE PREPARATION !!! WE ARE READY

STUDENT EXPERIENCE OF MAAC CHOWRINGEE OVER 24FPS VFX CHALLENGE SHOOT

Every year, animation kolkata arrange shooting for 24FPS VFX Challenge. This time on 14.7.16, we had arranged a place near Gateway Hotel, Ruby and started our shooting set-up process we set up the light & chroma shoot platform. It almost took around 1 hour 30 min to do the entire setup & after that we had started with the shooting. We had arranged a high end DSLR camera, with a professional cameraman, arranging track for camera movement, baby lighting, softbox etc.

Students made arrangement of all the props, costumes, makeup etc. It took full day to shoot as per our requirement. This year we also did the Chrome Ball Photography, which was a new thing to the students, and later on they will be using that data for their CG lighting purpose. One of our highly experienced faculties’ from Maac center, who had worked in Hollywood movies, came from Mumbai to guide us. It was a fun filled day with lots of learning, planning, and execution.

STUDENT EXPERIENCE OF MAAC KANKURGACHI OVER 24FPS VFX CHALLENGE SHOOT

Every year, Maac Kankurgachi takes part in the VFX Challenge of the 24FPS Competition, which is a way for students learn hands on practical training that too at par industry-level work by recreating shots from renowned films with live-action and computer-generated components. The live-action shoot for this year's VFX Challenge was successfully held on Thursday, 14th July. It was a unique experience for the team, who had chosen a sequence to shots from Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

Students were provided a studio-like set-up with professional camera equipment and a chroma-ready set, props, costumes and make-up, actors with guidance from the experience faculty members of the centre. Based on the demo shoots done as practice over the past few weeks. They have now begun processing the footage and undertaking production-stage work. Now we are all waiting for the D-day when our production will be ready to launch.

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Big Animation Studios Versus Indie Production

In the 1980s, the release of blockbuster animations, like who framed Roger Rabbit, Disney, Fox, and Warner Bros came up and they started hiring artists and designers from every corner of the globe. European artists started hiring kids from colleges and some even before graduation. Big and major production houses began to increase the staff numbers, buying properties and paying magnificent salaries. And soon after these artists became hot commodities.

But the glamour is never permanent, soon the things began to feel formulaic and studios fell into trap.  The big studio system lost sight of the story. With the bigger budgets nobody wanted to take a chance with the creative process. In this scenario, independent studios & production houses started making movie and benefited from the audience’s demand for something different.

Now the independent artists are setting up their personal studios in their homes and animators, who used to work for big production houses are now appearing as production heads of their own studios.

Studios started finding cost effective ways of producing their work and began looking overseas by the year 2000. Due to the decrease in staff requirement many artists left out of work. During this period the Troy Story released and made money at the box office and other major studios had realization that collaborating with some of the new, slick CGI studios could be advantageous.

Indies, also known as independent studios started putting up their own films. During the first decade of the millennium, the independent production company rush was the trend that had captured the attention of mainstream audiences across the world.

Indie production companies are now emerging in great numbers due to technological progress that has created an entirely different setup of the animation studio. It is more efficient to set up a studio where all the equipment's of production could comfortably be installed on one workstation. Indeed it seems the crop of indie production companies has grown continuing to have smaller budgets.  

Diversification added to this process further. Considering the vast number of options available today like DVD, video games, commercials, internet, wireless and more, the new emerging consumer arenas like e-learning and ethnic entertainment target markets the scope for indie  production  is growing each day.

No one knows where the story will end. Perhaps this new renaissance of indie productions will give birth to its own list of lessons to be learned and challenges to be faced. But one thing is for sure that it is just the beginning of a new era for the animation paradise.

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