The ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’ director, who has supported the project for the last 2 years, joins the production, from visionary filmmaker Vani Balgam, about a South Indian teenage tennis prodigy whose game changes when her father falls into a coma; the Kickstarter campaign is now live.
Dancing Atoms founder Saraswathi Buyyala brings to Mifa and the festival her compelling animated feature about a woman who uncovers a chilling female foeticide conspiracy involving her husband.
Winners of the creative challenges in animation, VFX, virtual production, and AR/VR to be revealed at the inaugural WAVES Summit running May 1-4 at the Jio World Convention Centre in Mumbai.
Representatives from more than 40 countries, along with winners from 31 separate creative industry challenges, will converge in Mumbai for the inaugural conference, the first of its kind, with meetings, exhibitions and talks on topics from across animation, VFX, gaming, comics, XR, infotainment, and film.
The former Rhythm & Hues and DreamWorks Animation senior exec switched gears and jumped headfirst into animated film and series development, creating her own shows while mentoring and collaborating with Epic Games and ASIFA India to start the Women Creators Program.
The free event, running October 26-28, features masterclasses with industry leaders in animation, games and VFX; join Epic Game’s Arvind Neelakantan, DNEG, India’s Jigesh Gajjar and master of classical animation Glenn Vilppu for free online sessions.
‘Migrants,’ and ‘Box Assassin’ take Jury Special and Best Student Project honors; virtual festival’s annual Electronic Theatre and Animation Theatre showcase an additional 44 top CG animation projects chosen from 577 submissions.
