‘Dead Ahead’ is a postcard animation to the world of the horror movie genre. Our intrepid travelers head out into the wilderness on their road trip only to find one nightmare scenario after the other. With each step forward a new monster emerges paying homage to such classics as Friday the 13th, Jaws and Pet Sematary.
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HIM+HER is a dramatic short film about the beginning and ending of a relationship, told from the perspective of both characters. Starring Courtney Lynn Lakin, Christopher Robert Escobar and Trey Horton Director: Mike Reda Writers: Jerome Greene & Jessie Darnell Story: Mike Reda Cinematographer: Derek Donovan Original Score: Jake Hull Sony FS7 KineMini Letus AnamorphX Adapter XEEN Cinema Primes Premiere Pro CC Vimeo compression is a killer!
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In a few years we’ll have artificial intelligence that can accomplish professional human tasks. There is nothing we can do to stop this. In addition our lives will be totally 100% tracked by ourselves and others. This too is inevitable. Indeed much of what will happen in the next 30 years is inevitable, driven by technological trends which are already in motion, and are impossible to halt without halting civilization. Some of what is coming may seem scary, like ubiquitous tracking, or robots replacing humans. Others innovations seem more desirable, such as an on-demand economy, and virtual reality in the home. And some that is coming like network crime and anonymous hacking will be society’s new scourges. Yet both the desirable good and the undesirable bad of these emerging technologies all obey the same formation principles.
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Knowledge and Creativity was further enhanced as the second day of the Animation Masters Summit 2016 opened with YouTube Kids & Learning, Head APAC, Don Anderson’s exemplary presentation on digitalisation and power of YouTube. Focusing mainly on YouTube Kids app, Anderson explained how various types of content has worked for various age groups of kids. He introduced the extensive features of YouTube Kids app as it has various facilities of parent control, search control and also how it maintains a healthy schedule for kids by keying them to get a good sleep after a certain time of browsing.
YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world after Google. And, animated content on YouTube has worked wonders as kids themselves have taken to create their own content on YouTube and start their own channel.
YouTube Kids & Learning, strategic partner manager for Northern Europe, Cedric Petitpas touched on these points as he displayed various Youtubers who have used Animation, Live action or a combination of both to create content for kids and educate them in an entertaining way. The humongous number of views and subscribers that Petitpas pointed out definitely sent a strong message to the congregation that YouTube is ‘The next platform’ to display your own content with considerable freedom.
Courage, willingness to take risks and following your intuition to find your passion was all substantially portrayed by Arjun The Warrior Prince director Arnab Chaudhauri. Working as the creative director at Turner for Cartoon Network majorly, Arnab directed various animated projects for India for the major broadcaster. Yet when an opportunity knocked at his door, he followed his gut feeling and came down to India from Hong Kong to make the feature film Arjun The Warrior Prince (released in 2012).
He explained that he quit his corporate job at Turner just for this feature as this was what he wanted to create. But destiny had its own way, as he joined Disney as a creative director and now again has cocooned to follow his own passion as he has taken up creating his own content, videos and in depth photography. His entire journey compressed in this short presentation conveyed his desire to create something unique and follow his heart and his art diligently.
In this era of CGI and computer animation, the art and essence of creating basic production design physically still remains alive quite effectively was unknown until production art designer Sabu Cyril explained his entire journey.
Having worked on various films like Baahubali, Robot, Ra One, Krissh 3, Om Shanti Om and so on, Sabu Cyril conveyed how he still prefers to create various production design physically till the basic crux and then let the CGI to be added. Right from horses, elephants, temples, palaces, dams, swords, shields, costumes, street, huge towers to an entire city; he presented how he went about creating various props with minute detailing and perfection in technicality and creativity.
It is rightly said that Sabu Cyril is an animator, production designer, art director, physicist, chemist, engineer, architect, sculptor and much more as he can or probably has created everything which may seem impossible to any lay man.
As Padma Shri Ram Mohan was honoured by the Life Time Achievement Award by Toonz Media Group, he shared his notable views about the future of animation in India. An in depth enticing presentation of Shri Ram Mohan’s work in animation enthralled the congregation and truly justified the exemplary work of the legendary master.
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After the precious words from the veteran, honourable Chief Guest Director General of Police Rishi Raj Singh expressed his views about Animation Masters Summit and the efforts of Toonz Media Group. Indiantelevision.com Group, founder and CEO, Anil Wanvari and YouTube Kids & Learning, Content Partnerships South and South East Asia, Aman Dayal congratulated Toonz Media Group for their continued efforts and encouraged them to continue with the same zeal and spirit. Anil Wanvari inspired the congregation to dream and collaboratively work towards fulfilling that dream.
It was then time for results of the Flying Elephant Competition hosted by Toonz Media Group. Various winners from across India were awarded out of the 507 entries that were received in the four categories of the competition.
Toonz Media Group, CEO, P. Jayakumar expressed his gratitude to all the masters and everyone present and Festival director Mohan Subramaniam gave the vote of thanks to each and every person who helped make Animation Masters Summit 2016 a success.
‘Kerala, Hospitality, Talent and Culture’ are all birds that flock together therefore the Animation Masters Summit 2016 ended with a thrilling balancing and juggling performance by renowned artist K Vinod.
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Just talking about animation is not enough; Animation is a creative field which dwells on technology therefore, this creativity has to be displayed through various kinds of work. Animation Masters Summit 2016 could not be complete without the display and recognition of this creative work.
The Flying Elephant Competition hosted by the Toonz Media Group witnessed 507 entries in four categories namely Animation Short Films, Live Action Short Films, Animation TV feature and Series and Short Film-Student Category.
In the Animation Short Films category Talking Walls by Shaaz Ahmed won the first place. While, Fisherwoman & Tuk Tuk by Suresh Eriyat won the second place followed by Trial & Error that took the third place.
The Live Action Short Films category witnessed Syaahi by Varun Tandon winning the first place while ABC by Madan RamVenkatesh winning the second place.
Winners of the Flying Elephant Competition along with industry veterans
In the Animation TV Feature and Series Batu Gaiden: Return of Asi by Masatsugu Arakawa helmed the first place followed by Coconut: The Little Dragon winning the second place and Anish Patel’s Chhoti Anandi Goli’s Toy Car winning the third place.
The Short Film-Student Category was won by What is Your Brown Number? by Vinnie Bose. The National Film and Television School and Debanjan Nandy’s Chhaya took the second place and The Mailbox by Nikhita Prabhudesai stood third in this category.
In order to expand the fine art of storytelling and creating animated content, Toonz Media Group organised this Flying Elephant Competition to boost new talent. Moreover, the main aim of this competition was to recognise, appreciate and inspire more and more creation of highly effective animated and live action content.
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