The 15th International Film Festival titled ‘THE GOLDEN ELEPHANT,’, organized by Children’s Film Society of India (CFSI) at Hyderabad, India was a grand affair this year. It was held from November 14 to 20 Nov 2007.

CFSI had invited children from all over India to participate in this festival. They had set up a variety of programmes for the children including films screenings, special trips and workshops.

Graphiti School of Animation organized two workshops on animation for children as a part of this festival, on 15th Nov 2007.

The first workshop was conducted at NVS High School, Hyderabad. This was specifically for Hyderabad schools. Students of 8th, 9th and 10th standards from Sasdaria Girls High School, Nrupphunga High School, Nandini High School, Genesis Grammar High School and NVS High School attended this workshop. They were exposed to the basic concepts of animation like persistence of vision, performance in animation, character design and story telling.

The workshop was inaugurated by Ms. Nafisa Ali, the Chairperson of CFSI. Students also viewed a few animation film clips. The workshop ended with each student making his/her first ever animation, using a flipbook.

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Three students from this group were selected as representatives to showcase their flip book animation and character design, during the press conference later in the day at IMAX – media centre, Hyderabad. Nafisa Ali addressed a press conference at this venue and introduced these students to the press.

She had invited Graphiti to conduct a similar workshop to the students in this venue. These students were from all over India and had come to Hyderabad on invitation from CFSI. They saw all the various films shown by CFSI in this complex. Munjal Shroff, COO, Graphiti Multimedia Pvt Ltd, inaugurated the workshop by emphasizing on the importance of exposure to animation at an early age.

A new approach to this workshop in the theater environment at IMAX, media centre, was necessary as it had to be conducted without the aid of technology like projectors. Performance and exaggeration that form the core of animation was used as the theme for this workshop.

Adesh Bharadwaj and Jitendra Chowdhary of Graphiti School of Animation conducted the workshops. Value of storytelling was brought out by making the students relate to some simple themes from nursery rhymes and other children’s stories. Then some volunteering students were called on stage and asked to enact simple characters. The student audience was taken, stage by stage, through different exercises to understand how specific characteristics of the characters should be emphasized to make viewers relate.

Nafisa Ali actively participated in the workshop encouraging their involvement. The students and the Graphiti team that conducted the workshop as well as others in the audience, all, had an enjoyable time.

There were around 200 students for the first workshop and more than 250 students from all over India who had come to attend the second workshop.

The objective of the workshop was to expose school children at early stage to creative aspects of animation film making and help them gain some experience in making simple animation.

Speaking with AnimationXpress.com, Adesh Bharadwaj shared, “The basic aim of the workshops was to educate children of what animation is. They watch animation films but don’t know what it takes to make these. We need to develop an aptitude in them for this. They thought it’s very difficult. Here, they made flip books, and you should have seen the smile on their faces. These kids have so much imagination. We have conducted such workshops even earlier in many schools in Mumbai with tiny as well as elder school children. They come to the workshops with lot of prejudice. The smaller kids on the other hand have so much enthusiasm and energy. It’s difficult to hold them down. We wanted them to start from an early age. But we are not throwing career at them, they are too small for that. It was only to make them have fun. The way they have fun in watching the animation films, they will have fun in making animation too.”

Bharadwaj further added, “The outcome was amazing. Each of them made flipbook, and carried it home with such pride and happiness. They made the action of a man jump and could see it happening. When we did the second workshop, we did not even have a screen, while the earlier workshop had one one. We could just stand and do activities. Hence we made tehm act and perform. That’s also part of animation. They could see characters coming out and performing. Like Jerry, what and how likes to eat and what does he do, etc. They started coming out with characters.”

“We realized that they had a great sense of observation but they didn’t know it can be used. They had the ability to perform. And the best part is that they don’t have inhibitions. We need to tell them that they shouldn’t kill this inhibition. Lastly the workshop made them develop ideas, think more towards each thing, how will the character perform, how to bring it out, etc,” he stated.

In fact Nafisa Ali was so impressed with the first workshop (which was the only one planned), that it was an impromptu decision of hers to conduct the second workshop.

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