The second edition of Arena Orbit Live 2014 concluded successfully on Sunday, January 12, 2014. Orbit Live 2014,
witnessed a roaring success with huge participation from industry experts, animation studios and Arena students, who came together from across the country & the globe. The event was inaugurated by Ninad Karpe, CEO and Managing Director, Aptech Ltd and Anuj Kacker, Executive Director, Aptech Ltd.
Chris Ford of Pixar Animation Studio and Susan Erokan from DreamWorks USA visited India for the first time to address Indian Animation students. The chief guests for the award night were Chris, Susan Erokan, and Easo Thampy Matthew, National Head Operation, Aptech.
The keynote addresses were delivered by Chris Ford and Susan Erokan. More than 150+ industry experts, top animation & VFX studios and 300+ Arena students from across the country participated in this event. In a glittering awards ceremony industry stalwarts such as N. Madhusudhanan, P. Jayakumar of Toonz Animation India and Vaibhav More of Vaibhav More Films were honored amongst others. Arena Animation also awarded its alumni and young talent with Orbit Live 2014 awards.
Interesting revelations from the Indian and International Animation Studios are coming in from Orbit Live with an official announcement on Arena Animation’s Official Facebook and Twitter Page of Chris Ford Announcing Pixar RenderMan & Arena Animation Collaboration after which Arena students will get exclusive access to the software.Also, Prasad Studios setting up its base at Kolkata has been unveiled by Sree Suresh and Prime Focus to set up stereoscopy facility at Goa & hire freshers was revealed by Saharsh Shah.
And the Industry Honors Went to..
| Visual Effects Valiant | N. Madhusudhanan | Outstanding Visual Effects in Indian Cinema – Vishwaroopam | N. Madhusudhanan | |
| Visual Effects Powerhouse | Red Chillies VFX | Red Chillies VFX | Outstanding Visual Effects in Indian Cinema – Krrish 3 | Keitan Yadav |
| India’s International VFX Giant | Merzin Tavaria | Prime Focus Ltd. | maintaining India’s presence in Global VFX | Merzin Tavaria |
| Indian Animation Powerhouse | P. Jayakumar | Toonz Animation India | For adding to the health of the Indian ecosystem by regularly providing work to several Indian studios , for creating original Indian Ips and its continued presence in Internationl Market | P. Jayakumar |
| Outstanding Indian Design based IP | Charuvi Agarwal | Charuvi Design Labs | For Shri Hanuman Chalisa | Charuvi Agarwal |
| Lionheart of Animation | Ranjit Singh | Ranjit Singh | For your valuable & consistent contribution to the community & an Authorative Treatise on Animation Production Management | Ranjit Singh |
| Lionheart of Animation | Vaibhav More Films | Vaibhav More | For consistenly contributing to the community as well as producing cutting edge work in animation, year on year. | Vaibhav More |
| Lionheart of Animation | Zee TV | Vipul Bhalala | For his cutting edge creative finishing & motion graphics work | Vipul Bhalala |
| Lionheart of Animation | Ramana P. M. V | Ramana P. M. V | For his inspiring concept art, visual development & matte painting wizardry | Ramana P. M. V. |
| Inspiring Animation Inde | Pradeep Patil | Roaming Design | Impactful Communication through Original Indian Content | Pradeep Patil |
| Outstanding contribution to Comics & Graphic Novels ecosytem | Campfire | Campfire | Outstanding contribution to Comics & Graphic Novels ecosytem | Anuja Thirani Sagar Vinod Mulay |
| Indian Animation IP Creator | Rudra Matsa Entertainment | Rudra Matsa Entertainment | Indian Animated IP – Pandavas TV series | Rudra Matsa |
| Indian Animation Valiant | Shilpa Ranade | Shilpa Ranade | For producing animated feature through CFSI | Shilpa Ranade |
| Outstanding VFX Production in Indian Television | Mahabharat | Swastik Productions | For taking Television VFX to a new Paradigm | Swastik Productions |
Orbit Live 2014, is a livewire interactive mega learning event and an exclusive initiative by Arena Animation – the global leader in hi-end animation & multimedia training. It was an inspirational and aspirational learning confluence of students, industry leaders and practitioners, well attended by global industry professionals. The event comprised of a variety of intense interactive workshops, seminars, technology sessions, HR outlook sessions and an award ceremony all spread over the four days of the event providing a unique learning opportunity for the Arena students.
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ORBIT LIVE – STAR TALENT AWARD 2014
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| 1 | STAR ALUMNI AWARD | Santosh Anthony |
| 2 | STAR ALUMNI AWARD | Indu Shrivastav |
| 3 | STAR ALUMNI AWARD | Abhineeth |
Students got their curiosity on Animation & Digital media satiated by interacting directly with the top most professionals from the animation world. Students also participated and won awards in “Live projects” of Jameson – Done in 60 sec and Karbonn Mobile campaign provided by Talent House.
Ninad Karpe, CEO & Managing Director, Aptech Ltd, says “I’m delighted to see the passion and enthusiasm of the students who have come from all across India to attend this event. Orbit Live is a great learning confluence and we hope that the students and industry professionals take home a lot of learning and insights from this event”.
Chris Ford, Pixar, USA, says, “Cinematic GPU rendering & more photorealism are the future of entertainment in the world. I am extremely impressed with the kind of work displayed by the Arena students and strongly believe that they have the capability of producing works of animation comparable to international standards”.
Susan Erokan, DreamWorks, USA, says, “DreamWorks and India friendship is the future. Animation is no longer limited to Los Angeles or California and is fast moving to India. DreamWorks’ next will mostly be made at their Bangalore studio. With DreamWorks hiring in Bangalore & looking at internships, raising prospects for animators in India are definitely on an uphill”.
The masters of entertainment, the TRON group from Delhi along with a Jam session with Paint Drumming enthralled the 100+ Industry professionals & over 250 students at the Orbit Live Awards & Industry Honours Night. The ‘art vibe’ was truly enhanced in the electrifying evening, followed by HR outlook to students the next morning, thus concluding the four day mega learning event, called unique by the Industry.
The event was hosted by Kubra Sait. To entertain the crowd, The Grind (Pool Party) Anime Jamoori carnival was organized every evening, imbibing fun learning with masquerade parade, comic tattoos &, talent hunt, contests and much more.
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| 1 | STAR TALENT AWARD 2014 | Sandesh Sadashiv Bhilare | Principles of Animation | Thane |
10/1/2014
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| 2 | STAR TALENT AWARD 2014 | Ranpara Meghna Pankajbhai | Art of Visual Expression / Group 3 | Maninagar |
10/1/2014
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| Vishal Kale | Art of Visual Expression / Group 3 | Thane |
10/1/2014
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| Khilesh Murli Shahu | Art of Visual Expression / Group 3 | Dharampeth |
10/1/2014
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| Patel Jay Vinodkumar | Art of Visual Expression / Group 3 | Naranpura |
10/1/2014
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| 3 | STAR TALENT AWARD 2014 | L S Lakshmikanthan | Character Design | Kilpauk |
10/1/2014
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| 4 | STAR TALENT AWARD 2014 | Ankita Patel | Live Project Jameson / Movie – SHITMAN | Malviya Nagar |
10/1/2014
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| Sunny Singh | Live Project Jameson / Movie – SHITMAN | Malviya Nagar |
10/1/2014
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| Sharukh Tanvir | Live Project Jameson / Movie – SHITMAN | Connaught Place |
10/1/2014
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| Khusro Raft | Live Project Jameson / Movie – SHITMAN | Jaipur |
10/1/2014
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| Shivesh Mishra | Live Project Jameson / Movie – SHITMAN | Lucknow |
10/1/2014
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| Nebal Jemal Saleh Malifo | Live Project Jameson / Movie – SHITMAN | Ganganagar |
10/1/2014
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| 5 | STAR TALENT AWARD 2014 | Smita Chowdhury | Live Project Karbonn | Salt Lake Sec 1 |
10/1/2014
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| 6 | STAR TALENT AWARD 2014 | Lakshya Sunder Wani | The Art of Compositing/ Group RGB | Shastri Nagar |
10/1/2014
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| Harshal S Sonawane | The Art of Compositing/ Group RGB | Thane |
10/1/2014
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| 7 | STAR TALENT AWARD 2014 | Pooja Singh | The Camera and Visual story Telling | Indira Nagar |
11/1/2014
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| Nitish Kumar | The Camera and Visual story Telling | Greater Noida |
11/1/2014
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| Mihir Joshi | The Camera and Visual story Telling | Sayyajiganj |
11/1/2014
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| Banoth Sohanlal | The Camera and Visual story Telling |
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| Paramveer Singh Bhatia | The Camera and Visual story Telling |
11/1/2014
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| 8 | STAR TALENT AWARD 2014 | Neha V Jain | Color Grading for Films and TV | Kilpauk |
11/1/2014
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| Mohammed Abu Bakker | Color Grading for Films and TV | Kilpauk |
11/1/2014
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| 9 | STAR TALENT AWARD 2014 | Manoranjan K | The Art of Motion Graphics / Group 12 | Ameerpet |
11/1/2014
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| Rakesh Kumar Mishra | Bapuji Nagar |
11/1/2014
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| 10 | STAR TALENT AWARD 2014 | M Stalinkumar | Ideating Imagery | RSPuram Coimbatore |
11/1/2014
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| 11 | STAR TALENT AWARD 2014 | Paras Vijay | Acting and Timing for Animation/Group Keyframe | Jaipur 3 |
11/1/2014
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| Prakriti Agarwal | Acting and Timing for Animation/Group Keyframe | Park Street |
11/1/2014
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| 12 | STAR TALENT AWARD 2014 | Ultrasonic Group | Foley Sound Design for Animation |
11/1/2014
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| Rajeshwari Verma | New Delhi |
11/1/2014
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| Vicky Tailor | Surat |
11/1/2014
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| Khusro Rafat |
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| Avni Umirgar | Surat |
11/1/2014
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| Kruti Adalja | Surat |
11/1/2014
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| Hemal sonani | Surat |
11/1/2014
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| Chandrabhan Yadav |
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| Vignesh | RSPuram |
11/1/2014
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| R Jagadish | RSPuram |
11/1/2014
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| Kameshwaran | T Nagar |
11/1/2014
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| Shubham Upadhyay | Ghaziabad |
11/1/2014
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| Mahim Goyal | Chandigarh |
11/1/2014
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| Mohd. Asim | Noida 3 |
11/1/2014
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| Prashant Vikram | Noida 3 |
11/1/2014
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| Pankaj Yadav | Noida 3 |
11/1/2014
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| Anjali Mishra | Chandigarh |
11/1/2014
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