TechnoparkToday.com>> May 16, 2014: The Toonz Safari, a journey through the animation world organised by India’s Top animation production house, Toonz Animation India was a crowd puller, with people thronging the Toonz studio at Technopark to be part of the three day animation safari.
The funfilled yet informative safari named “The Journey of a Story through Animation Production” ended on a high note with over 200 people participating. The safari which was from May 13th to May 15th was organised as part of the fifteenth anniversary celebrations of Toonz Animation.
“The safari was a novel experience for both kids and grown up alike, they were really amazed by the stages the toon characters goes through in an animation film making,” said Toonz Animation C E O, P. Jayakumar.
“The safari was organise with the objective to take animation to the masses and the huge turnout indicates that our endeavour didn’t went vain, the response from the crowd was fabulous and this has inspired us to organise more events involving the public”, he added
In the Safari the participants were given a detailed presentation on the process of animation film making right from the scripting stage to the final production. The Vice President, Toonz Academy, Vinod A S, took the participant through the journey and evolution of animation.
The participants of the Safari were welcomed by Krishnakumar V, the National Head- Operations and Marketing, Toonz Academy and Ajith Kumar C, Centre Head; Toonz Academy proposed the vote of thanks. Every batch were given a live demo of the prestigious projects of Toonz and later taken to the Studio Tour, where they got a sneak peak of the live projects which are under different stages of production.
Special episodes of Toonz Animation’s prestigious projects like Tenali Raman, Kid Krrish, Jil Jil Genie, pakadam Pakadai and Ninja Hatori were screened for the participants. They were also shown how a character gets shape and life as it begins its journey from the scripting stage and goes through the pre production, production, post production and gains the final shapes.
“The safari was a great experience, we were really amazed when shown the how the characters are created in a studio, it was a really moment to cherish, said, Sooraj, a student who was part of the Toonz Safari.
In the animation safari the participant also got the opportunity to interact will the team behind some of the famous toon characters which Toonz Animation India have produced.