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:

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.

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Student Interview; Kuntal Mukharjee

We keep conducting our ex students' interview to know what they have experienced from MAAC Kolkata and how their life has changed after qualifying from MAAC Kolkata. We also try to guide all of you via the interviews we conduct.

Today we are sharing the interview of Kuntal Mukharjee, one of our ex student who is now a post production instructor in MAAC itself.  

Interviewer: Hi Kuntal, how are you?

Kuntal: I am good sir, how about you?

Interviewer: doing well. So tell us Kuntal how does it feel coming to your institute back after such a long time that to be for giving an interview?

Kuntal: (laughs) amazing! I was a confused student before I learnt about MAAC. Like any other student I was surfing internet to seek a great opportunity to give a kick to my career. And then learnt about MAAC Kankurgachi. And today I am a proud student of MAAC Kankurgachi. And a proud employ of MAAC Gorakhpur.

Interviewer: Wow! That a proud moment for all of us. So what do you do at MAAC Gorakhpur?

Kuntal: I work there as the post production instructor. I look after the production team and invigilate them after production jobs.

Interviewer: great. Do you want to say something to the readers about MAAC Kankurgachi?

Kuntal: sure! It’s an amazing place to learn about VFX and animation. Teachers here are supportive and encouraging. If anybody wanting their career in animation field, this is the place.

Interviewer: Thank you Kuntal for your kind words and time. It was nice to have you with us.

So, this was Kuntal Mukharjee with us. We will be back with another interview soon till then stay tuned. Meanwhile you can visit our website to learn more about MAAC Kolkata.   

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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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Student Interview!!!

Hi all. Today we are going to share an interview of one of our students. He has shared his journey and experience with us. We hope you all will like it. Let’s get started.

Interviewer: Hi, Shekhar how have you been?

Shekhar: Hi sir, I have been doing well. And I hope same for all of you.

Interviewer: Oh yes, we all are doing well in life. Thank you. So tell us how come you decided to join maac and peruse in animation?

Shekhar: (laughs) Well sir, like any other student even I was confused what to do in life. There were so many options which further complicated the situation. One day while browsing I learned about MAAC Animation Kolkata. I did a research about animation and it kind of fascinated me. MAAC Kankurgachi was nearer so I decided to attend a counseling session followed by a in-class demo. And then what, today I am a MAAC Kankurgachi pass out. (Smiles)

Interviewer: Very well, so how was your overall experience in MAAC Kankurgachi?

Shekhar: Before joining it, I had no idea about animation, modelling or any other terms. I was blank in this field. The faculty was too good that I never had to worry about my weakness. They teach you from basics to advanced steps. They taught me so well and today I am a master mind in animation.

(Both laughs)

Interviewer: Very well, no doubt our faculty do a hard work. Now tell us about your career lift? What you doing in life?

Shekhar: If somebody passes out from MAAC Kankurgachi, the career will be at heights. Today I am working as 3D Animator in Sheltrex Studio Private Limited Kolkata. The roles and responsibilities are to produce 3D Dimensional images which create the illusion of moments.

Interviewer: Very well shekhar, that sounds interesting. We are happy to know that you being our student are happy and satisfied with the education we provided and with the job you earned. Thank you so much for giving us your precious time. 

So, this was Shekhar with us, who is now a successful animator. If you feel to be like him and planning to join a course with us please visit www.animationkolkata.com 

Thank you!