The first HAT-Trick workshop
for 2009 was organised by Arena Parkstreet at International
Club on Saturday, 11th April 2009 and the conductor was none
other than the celebrated illustrator, cartoonist, scriptwriter,
film maker and painter Sarbajit Sen.
"Lines crookedly drawn
- features exaggerated - oddities blown out of proportion
- we often tend to think that is all about cartoons. Too simplistic,
isn't it" is how Sarbajit Sir introduced visual scripting
for comic strips to his audience.
He went on to explain to the
audience that cartoons were almost certainly about having
fun. Whether it be about an experience, whether about the
current trends in news - sports, politics or others, or whether
about something totally imaginary.
The art of story-telling, visually,
is more complex than narrating and in the process more fulfilling
for the creator. For animation students it is all the more
important since it guides the film development process and
works as a storyboard for the film maker's script. Cartoons
or comic strips are not bound by any language and the medium
is powerful enough to communicate without the aid of "language".
Comics have a visual language
which is universal and speaks for itself. To further illustrate
this point he shared a "French" comic strip about
a man feeding a crow and no one had any difficulty in understanding
the story even though the dialogues were in French.
He encouraged the participants
to create a story in three or more frames based on their day
to day experience, the political situation or anything which
came to their mind, to illustrate his point and upon request
from the audience, picked up the pen and started illustration
on 'Concept"
This got the students started
and everyone squatted on the floor and started "illustrating"
their own ideas on paper. Sarbajit Sir encouraged everyone
to discuss their ideas with him and approach him if they got
stuck....
Students approached him in
droves and he patiently went through their work guiding them
and encouraging them with his remarks and suggestions. The
queue to get their work assessed was increasing by the minute
and one could see the happy faces of those who could squeeze
through. Eventually time ran out and Sen promised that he
would look at each and every work in details later and would
be happy to leave his comments about them for the students
to see.
In the end Sen encouraged students
to scribble a lot and do freehand sketching exercises to improve
their drawing skills and asked them to develop their sense
of observation of day to day happenings and be more aware
of them.
The winning student comic was an entry by Tapon Roy.
Ramesh Ruia, the Director of
Arena Animation Park Street announced that Sarbajit Sen would
conduct a longer duration workshop for the interested students
at the academy and those interested could register their names
for the same.
The success of the seminar
can best be judges by what the students had to say:
"Ek do teen char, Sarbajit
Sir is a superstar" - Sushama Shaw
"The program was simply
stunning and I learnt a lot" - Tanushree Biswas
"It was an excellent
experience as well as opportunity to interact with a person
like Mr. Sen. I enjoyed drawing, sitting on the floor. Thanks
to Arena Animation - Park Street" - Kumar Ajay
"Idea of comics became
more clear" - Sangita Ray
"This seminar laid
the foundation for learning storyboarding, which is so important
for creating script for animation" - Tapan Roy
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