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Trivandrum based animation major, Toonz Animation has signed up with Los Angeles based Friends of Bark Buddies ®for the development, production, financing and distribution of a 3D animated children’s series titled Bark Buddies ®, based on the cool Bark Buddies ®Trees. Zymr Inc. and Planting Tomorrows – both US based Companies now grafted together as “Friends of Bark Buddies®”, is dedicated to growing better global communities through engaging, nature based entertainment. Read More

Thumbnail™, Pune specializes in 2D Classical Animation which is the foundation for any kind of Creative Art and Animation and basic requirement for all hiring studios. The Institute has launched a 1 Year Career course in Animation at an affordable fee. Read More

From 28 November to 1 December 2012, the highly regarded and anticipated ACM SIGGRAPH Conference and Exhibition will be back in its inaugural city, Singapore. In its fifth edition this year, SIGGRAPH Asia continues to advance its position as a global platform to showcase the region’s best digital innovations and breakthrough concepts to the world. Read More

BIG AIMS (Animation Infotainment and Media School), India’s most happening Animation and VFX filmmaking academy, World Skill India, an initiative of National Skills Development Corporation of India (NSDC) and FICCI have come together to organize regional and national level competition in ‘Graphic Design’ category. The winner of the National Competition will be eligible to represent India at the ‘World Skill Competition’ to be held in Liepzig, Germany from 2nd to 7th July’2013. Read More

NVIDIA today announced that it has recognized Chitkara University, Chandigarh as a CUDA Teaching Center (CTC), under the aegis of its Academic and University Programme, enabling the university to access cost-effective hardware to build state-of-the-art laboratories as well as the necessary technical support. As a CUDA Teaching Centre, the Chitkara University has received teaching kits, including textbooks, software licenses and NVIDIA CUDA architecture-enabled GPUs for teaching parallel computing and conducting lab sessions, as well as academic discounts for additional hardware, if required. Other benefits include exclusive events with key researchers and academics, a designated NVIDIA technical liaison, and access to specialized online training sessions. Read More

M.R. Balakrishna is a familiar personality in the Indian Animation industry.With over a decade of experience in the field of animation production, M.R. Balakrishna has now taken up a new role- as a mentor at Endurance, a Digital Art and Animation Academy in Bangalore. Read More

Digital Domain Media Group,the Florida State University College of Motion Picture Arts and the City of West Palm Beach announce the arrival of the inaugural classes of students to their pioneering public/private collaboration – an accredited four-year BFA degree program in Animation and Digital Arts. Student orientation begins August 22 in West Palm Beach, with classes starting August 27 in Tallahassee and West Palm Beach. Read More

Bangalore based Jain Animation School (JAS) recently partnered with Adobe to become an Adobe Creative Technology Academy, a first in the country. With this tie up, JAS can now certify its students as Adobe Certified Associate, a globally recognized certification. Read More

Zee Institute of Creative Arts (ZICA), one of India’s leading animation institutes, announced the addition of their new block in the Noida center. ZICA has partnered with two NGO’s namely: Prerna Niketan Sangh & Deepalaya to provide free creative course scholarship for the underprivileged students. The scholarship will serve as a gateway for underprivileged students keen to make a career in the exciting and unbounded world of animation. Read More

Zee Institute of Creative Arts is presenting ZICA CREATIVE CAREER CARNIVAL from the 14th to 19th of May at all the centers across the country. The main objective of this carnival is to project “Creative Art” as the New Career Avenue and ZICA as the Destination Institute. Read More