Well known for creating social issue films, one of the countries renowned institutes for Technology and Animation, BIT is yet again on board with its new social awareness film, “Chalo Bulawa Aaya Hai”. The film is based road safety rules. The film has a strong message on how seat belts & helmets are our savers on road. It is created by students of Master in Animation Design, BIT-Jaipur.
The story revolves around 4 friends who were drunk & driving in a crowded city area. The car meets with an accident & three friends are taken to Yamlok by Yamraaj & the fourth one is left out. As the reason is obvious, it was because he wore the seat belt.
As any message whether dull or interesting, if given through animation, becomes even more interesting & catchy and hence this story is shown using comic characters like Yamraaj & Yamlok making the depiction even more interesting.
Birla Institute of Technology is spread across the world in various regions like Allahabad, Deoghar, Jaipur, Kolkata, Noida, Patna, Kingdom of Bahrain, Muscat, Ras al Khaimah, having its head quater at Mesra (Ranchi). BIT offers courses in Animation and Multimedia and grooms students in creative, technical and management concepts to make them well equipped to achieve their goals.
BIT students have developed games on the topic of female feticide. BIT Noida students’ films on the social message themes have won prizes at Global Film Festival, CMS Vatavaran Film Festival etc. Few students films have been showcased at many prestigious animation film festivals in India such as Chitrakatha NID, FICCI Frames, Jaipur International Film Festival, Jaipur Animation Film Festival, CMS Vatavaran etc. In the last year, BIT’s five students’ group “Maiden Gypsies” won first prize in a talent show of MTV “Gang Next” where they won by doing many creative exercises.
About 75 short films (including animation, live action, experimental) have been produced so far by the Animation & Multimedia Dept. Jaipur & Noida Campus. The students of Animation & Multimedia Dept. also have their hands on for working in Comic Book, E-Learning Modules, Games, Multimedia Presentation and 3D walk through.
The Animation & Multimedia Dept. of BIT Jaipur is producing 8 animated short films in this year in 2D and 3D medium which would be completed by July 2012. Recently, they even completed two animated spot films on social & medical awareness for Ministry of Health, Govt. of Rajasthan.
Currently 170 students are studying at Noida centre and 110 students at Jaipur centre. BIT has the record of passed out students of around 400 students from Noida centre and 250 students from Jaipur centre. The passed out students are placed in well known studios like Rhythm & Hues, Technicolor, Big Animation, Prime Focus, Anibrain and many more shared by Vibhuti Pandya, Head- A&M Dept.
BIT is the pioneer in Animation and Multimedia education at University level in India. BIT launched B.Sc. Animation and Multimedia course in 2004 at Noida centre then at Jaipur centre in 2005 under the mentorship and guidance of Dr. C.P. Srivastava who is a well renowned academician and Ajay Joshi, an industry expert successfully ensembled the hand picked experts from industry such as Makrand Joshi, Dr. Vibhuti Pandya- Head, A&M Dept (Jiapur), Lalit Bhatt- Head, A&M Dept(Noida), Vivek Sharma- Assistant Professor, Kiran A Shetti- Animation Faculty, Das Mohan Singh-Senior Designer, Bidyot Jyoti Baruah and many more who then successfully implemented the course.
BIT offers 4 years B.Sc. (Houns.) Animation and Multimedia Degree Course which includes last one year of Industrial training and specialization projects, 3year B.Sc. Animation & Multimedia degree course which is divided into 6semesters of the whole filming process, and 2 years Post Graduate Course in Animation Design (Masters).