Animation! This is the vehicle you have
chosen to express yourself in. a whole list of ‘tools’
are required: drawing, timing, phrasing, action, acting, pantomime,
staging, imagination, observation, interpretation, logic, caricature,
creativity, clarity, empathy, and so on – a mind boggling
array of prerequisites.
Rest at ease. You were born with all of them. Some of them may need a little
sharpening, others may need to be awakened as from a deep sleep, but they are
as much a part of you as arms, legs, eyes, kidneys, hemoglobin, and speech.
……Walt Stanchfield
(Animator, Advisor and Live drawing instructor at Disney)
Difficult huhh????
But possible.
When someone has set goal, one is determined to achieve them. One has to
set some rules to help him achieve the target. Well at our institute we go through
these practices which are surely leading us to the doors of creative world.
Movie Sessions: it is not only about watching movies, but discussing them,
developing a critical eye and understand the visual language of the film. Preparing
presentations on what we have absorbed and grasp the intricacies of a movie
great is all part of our learning experience
Drawing: it is all about learning the anatomy, composition, design elements
of the art and much more. A daily dose of scribbling and practice will make
us look at everything keenly; take our hand and creativity to great heights.
Concept Development: “the art is within you”; only thing is daily
practice of taking a theme or a subject and developing it into
a drawing where we fly with our imaginations.
TAKE AN IDEA AND BUILD IT
Story Development: the next step of concept development where we develop
our idea and present it in form of character development, story
boards, outline of story or a script and keep on improving over
these aspects continuously.
BREAK THE LINK OF REALITY FROM YOUR STORY AND YOU GET AMPLE IDEAS
TO DEVELOP.
Workshops: Saturdays are to go wild in the world of craft
and creativity other than software and drawings. Then may it
be mural making or clay modeling or wall painting or may be
craft work with paper and wood.
Freedom of Expression: We are allowed to express in our
own way with suggestions from faculty only if they feel are required. Personal
projects like Writing essays, developing ideas, stories, and scripts will help
us grow faster are encouraged and we understand it very well.
Flexibilitys: Our faculty understands the market needs very
well and that is the reason we have flexible curriculum pattern upgrading it
as per industry standards so as to remain ahead of the time; always.
Documentation: This is one area we strongly emphasize on
since our documented work and material is like a ready reference, available,
even at the middle of the night. Who knows, after 10 years I might make famous
movie on these ideas.
Internet
(Research and Development) :- individual research, keeping in
touch with the latest happenings and information, in our field are the areas
we always work on. We also interact with artists all over the world. We see
this as the faster way of achieving our goals.
Problem Solving: Solving the problem in pieces will help
in achieving the results faster than taking it as a whole. That is what we practice
here.
Meditation: to keep us focused on our goals and charged
up for your days work we see meditation as the best medicine.
Initiated Learning: "The urge to try new avenues should
come from you. You take one step and we will make sure that your next ten steps
are on the right path”. This is what our faculty believes in. so do we.
Detailing: is the key to take any work on different level.
It will surely make it a class apart. We strive to work on detailing aspect,
may it be modeling, animation or even writing this article.
Challenges: Before starting with any new assignment we try
to calculate possible problems as well as their solutions. That makes us prepared
for any challenge; may it be short film making, devising any craft or some difficulties
when you learn the software.
Library: A good library with collection from comics to heavy
duty stuff of understanding cinema and animation, and movies ranging from documentaries,
art to high end animation keeps us pumping all the time to learn the subject
of animation from various dimensions and developing our own style.
Walk the Talk: only words won’t help
you in becoming a good artist……YOU NEED
TO WALK YOUR TALK.
Live Projects: We are always creating stuff for an application
in the real world- Logo design, Posters, Story Boards, Character Animation,
Concept development, Short Films, whatever the size we have done it all. This
Experience is just like working in any studio.
Well those are few of the methods we
practice here and yes they are really awesome to work upon as well useful in
shaping our capabilities.
We practice these methodologies here as well in our day to day
life….. Are you ready for the same???
by Student Medhpranav Powar