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This is the computer age, wherein technological advances have opened up a much larger canvas for artists to indulge in, and now it is the mouse, rather than the brush that is used to give vent to the artist's imagination. This has created innumerable careers that didn't exist earlier

Remember the movie, Twister, where a crow flew across the screen? Or Independence Day, where alien spaceships threatened the existence of planet Earth? The mind-blowing special effects in cartoon films, movies like Matrix or the more recent, Spiderman and even Indian movies such as Hey Ram and Hindustani and the special effects in Daler Mehndi’s famous music albums.

Behind all these breathtaking effects is — guess who — a multimedia artist at work who specialises in animation. Artists today do not just work with easels, palettes and brushes. This is the computer age, wherein technological advances have opened up a much larger canvas for artists to indulge in. This includes a plethora of activities, from creating a presentation style for a given topic, to visualising the graphic elements in an application and creating cartoon characters.

Multimedia technology is something that integrates video, audio, text and graphic components in an interactive format from movies to educational tutors. Its applications are wide-ranging, and career opportunities for multimedia specialists include high growth careers in music, publishing, graphic arts, films, television, advertising and corporate communications.

Basically, there are two main work areas for a multimedia professional. One is creation of graphics, animation and usage of audio-video. The other area is: application of multimedia for a range of usages including books, CD-Roms, corporate and marketing presentations, TV and films. Areas of work Radio, television, advertising and the film industry: Editors, together with the film directors, create their films with graphic designers who generate all the graphics and special effects on the computer. Often, this is handled in conjunction with sound recordists who add their inputs using multimedia to create results that truly blow your mind. Interactive multimedia: Multimedia specialists function as web designers and developers for interactive portals. With convergence and interactive technologies being developed every day, specialists in this area will be required for online education, and video conferencing.

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B2B Portal for Freelance Animators & Multimedia Experts

September 30, 2009 - A new B2B transparent portal for animation projects and freelance work has been introduced. http://www.animationprojects.net has been introduced for outsourcing service buyers and providers with revolutionary approach. It takes a very transparent approach to help outsourcing service buyers and providers.

A freelance animator carry outs animation services for whoever has hired him or her for a particular project. After the project has been completed, the animator will go on to another animation project, working for someone else. Freelance animation is a great option for someone who likes animation but cannot make a decision what area of the field they want to specialize in. There are always a lot of possibilities, and a successful freelancer can pick and choose his assignments.

Are you a talented animation expert looking for animation projects? You have come to the right place.

Service Providers - How it Works?

• Register/Sign up on website http://www.animationprojects.net absolutely FREE.
• Search projects from the categories you prefer.
• Purchase contact details of the outsourcing services buyers associated with projects.
• Get connected to unlimited outsourcing services buyers.

Service Providers - Benefits

• Absolutely FREE registration.
• Free listing of company / freelancer profile.
• Providing verified leads.
• Save time and resources in finding buyers.
• Cut down marketing overheads.
• Build international clientele. Get projects locally, nationally and globally.

Service Buyers - How It Works?

• E-mail your project description/requirements on projects@animationprojects.net or post it on site FREE.
• An editorial team will put your project on AnimationProjects.
• Project alert email will be sent to all registered providers.
• Services providers searching for the projects will examine your project’s details.
• If any provider is interested in undertaking your project, then he will contact you directly.

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Arena launches animation academy

kolkata: arena multimedia launched the second in its series of animation academies here on saturday to tap the burgeoning domestic and export market of animation content production for television and film. "from films to short television format and the new requirements of the web, two- and three-dimensional animation production for digital entertainment is emerging as a huge market in china, korea and india," said head of arena multimedia, sudhir mathur. quoting a recent study by andersom consulting which projected that the $550-million indian animation industry would grow at 30 per cent per annum in the next three years, he said the business was expected to reach $15 billion by 2002. "while the global digital animation industry is poised to grow from the current $25 billion to a whopping $70 billion by 2005, india would receive more than $2 billion in animation businesses," he observed. with western giants ilm and disney planning to set shop in india to produce animation films and movies, the field would be one of the fastest-growing it segments, he said, adding arena's mission was to create a pool of multimedia professionals. the animation academy, second after mumbai in a series of 20, would offer three- to seven-month courses costing between rs 30,000 and rs 60,000 on 3d and animation, audio-video editing and special effects.

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Japanese Animation Film Events in London

Anime in London

Anime fans in London, England are in for a treat later this month, as The Barbican Centre, occasional home to animation series/film screenings over the months, prepares local showings of long-awaited anime features. Meanwhile, Sci-Fi London's Oktoberfest Anime All-Nighter is gearing up for quite a selection later this month as well. For UK-based otaku, little could be sweeter than the chance to see films from directors such as Mamoru Oshii, Hayao Miyazaki, and Masahiro Andou all in about one month's time.

A component of anime scholar and author Helen McCarthy's continuing profile of Japanese animation, both creatively and critically, Barbican's showing of Andou's The Sword of the Stranger (2007), a vibrant, violent, samurai tale, is highly anticipated. Part historical-fantasy and partly vicious-drama as well, The Sword of the Stranger is sprinkled with traditionally fluid, ultra-violent fight sequences finding a nameless samurai with a troubled past. Guilty past and all, the nameless one takes on the task of protecting a mysterious young boy who is pursued by the royal army.

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Architecture Faculty at SCET to Start Animation Course

SURAT: Faculty of Architecture at the Sarvajanik College of Education and Technology (SCET) is to start postgraduation course in 3D animation post production and special effects from second semester after Diwali vacation. Formal inauguration of the course was done by acclaimed film maker Ketan Mehta on Sunday.

The six-month course will be offered to students of architecture, engineering and other streams. According to the institute, the fees are not yet fixed but it will be lesser than the fees charged by private animation institutes.

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Animation, Gaming Jobs Set to Double by 2012: Nasscom

KOLKATA: The animation industry is likely to have the going good in respect of jobs. Nasscom’s projections suggest that employment in this sector will double from 14,700 now to 29,500 by 2012. Similarly, the gaming industry too will create a huge number of jobs in the next three years, with the projections being 10,700 jobs by 2012 from a meagre 2,300 people now.

Responding to a ET questionnaire over phone from Delhi, Sangeeta Gupta, vice-president of Nasscom said: “The animation and gaming industry in India has immense scope to grow. Given the financial meltdown, many western countries are actively looking at destinations like India to develop animation content within moderate budgets. The increased interest of Bollywood and the regional cinema industry for animation, has boosted growth also. The Indian animation industry has moved from a pure offshore model to co-production model. While the domestic sector contributed with manpower and infrastructure, international producers helped with marketing and distribution.”

Ms Gupta said that according to Nasscom therefore, animation and gaming companies will witness a significant growth by 2012. “At present, there are some 250 animation companies in the country. By 2012, we expect the number of such companies to swell to around 400. The number of gaming companies will also double from around 50 now to 100 by 2012.”

The Nasscom vice-president estimated that the turnover in the animation sector could cross $1 billion by 2012 from $492 million in 2008. Similarly, turnover in the gaming industry stood at $167 million in 2008, but is likely to go up to $830 million by 2012.

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