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Making
way for children to showcase their talent, Toon Club director, Tehzeeb
Khurana has introduced a new program called Toon Shorts.
Speaking
to Animationxpress.com Tehzeeb shared, "Toon
shorts is a program where students become young film makers and
make their own short films. In this program, children ideate a socially
relevant concept, storyboard, animate and direct their 2 minute
or less duration film all by themselves under Toon Club supervision."
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Simran's-collage
animation
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Toon
Shorts concept was tested in 2004 when three short films of two
minutes each directed and animated by children received international
attention and accolades in various festivals in France, Italy and
Finland.
Commenting on this Tehzeeb shared, "Toon Shorts' films created
in 2004 were funded by Zonsta Entertainment fund for Indian Children
(ZEFIC). Zonsta approached Toon Club kids to come up with stories
which could then be created into animation films which they would
further send to festivals around the world. They selected two stories
which were then directed and animated by the writers of the stories."
This
year three children have been selected. "Out of the 100 odd
eligible kids who have learnt animation at Toon Club, I have hand
picked only those who have exhibited extra-ordinary passion and
commitment", said Tehzeeb.
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Nishiki's-
Man's best freind
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The
three short listed kids are Nishiki Bhavnani, Yash Choksi and Simran
Gursahani.
Nishiki is a sixteen years old girl, passionate about animals and
closely working with PETA. She joined Toon Club in 2003 and made
her first short film "Man's Best Friend?" in 2004. She
loves animating and telling stories using this medium.
Drawing
and making comic strips is what eleven years old Yash loves. He
is very serious about animation as he hero worships his Uncle who
is also a senior animator at Crest and wants to grow up to be just
like him. He has been attending Toon Club for the past 1.5 years.
Extremely
talented and creative Simran, ten years old, showed great interest
in animation within months of joining the mixed media program at
Toon Club. She is very good in computers and learns new softwares
with ease.
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Yash's-chalkboard
animation
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These
kids have already finished the first phase of the program of writing
a script and creating a storyboard.
On
a concluding note, Tehzeeb shared, "This program takes the
kids through all the nitty-gritty's of story-telling, film language
and animation film-making. In fact, some of the concepts covered
in this program are taught at film schools. This is intensive program
and cannot be done by any child. Only children with that extra commitment
and passion for animation can take on this challenging program.
They have to be prepared to work really hard and sacrifice all holidays
till their films are complete."
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Divya Jain
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