Speaker Bio:  

Muthu M Vijaiyan
CEO & Chief Editor, Cgtoday
I have about 14 years of experience in the areas of creativity, technology and business. My interest into creative field had never left me to deviate, which made me to take a new avatar as a co-producer for a successful 390 episode TV series, the only mega daily soap in India to bag eleven state awards to its credit. I had produced and directed three live action short films and one of my short film is been nominated. I had produced a digital feature film of about 90 minutes duration which got nominated with several critics acclaimed awards. Having sound sense in aesthetics and technology, I found animation industry is the right place to quench my thirst. Advanced thinking and working style have placed me as an animation supervisor, later I had an opportunity to work on few projects of Disney, Nickelodeon, and Method Films
Amarnath
Director , Octopus Media School.
Amar has been in the filed of multimedia and animation since 15 years, as a mentor and as well as in the production. He has worked as a technical head for various brands of animation companies, Amar has an experience of 15 years in multimedia and animation field. Now currently running his own institute called "Octopus Media School", an exclusive training center for Visual Fx for Films, Broadcast and Animation.Simultaneously running a production house called "RNA Graphix", a complete media solutions for all media activities which includes films, broadcast, corporate, animation etc. His specialization includes Visual Fx, film making, animation, composting, editing etc. Amar has vast experience in animation, Visual Fx, Film Making and multimedia sectors.
Arjun Gupte
Art Director, Entrepreneur, .
Arjun Gupte is a animation director and entrepreneur who was born in Bombay,India on May 23 1976. He studied at the National Institute of Design ,India and Vancouver Film School in Canada. He has worked for clients such as Jim Henson Studios, Warner Bros. and Sony on games, TV and film. He has setup and run a gaming and design studio from scratch in Bangalore where he resides now.His work can be found at www.angupte.blogspot.com
Jaydeep Mukherjee
Manager-Projects, Online Channels ,Web Practice, Cognizant
NID alumni with 12+ years of industry experience. SME and Project manager for online Line of Business of Cognizant. Also leading User Experience design competency for Bangalore location. Thoroughly explored creative design mediums like Animation, Illustration and Graphic Design during formal design education and client project environment. Designed characters for short animation films, e-learning modules, User Personas and in-house mascots. Interested in instilling retention value during character development process and exploring possibilities of character design.
Kushal Ruia
Creative Head, Amar Chitra Katha
With a major in Animation and Filmmaking from Sheridan College (Canada), Kushal has over 8 years of experience in the animation industry in India and Canada.At ACK-Media, Kushal has worked towards enhancing ACK Animation’s creative vision and the quality of its products. In addition to conceptualizing, developing and managing production of animation properties in India and abroad, he works closely with other creative teams to help define products in varied formats and mediums under the ACK umbrella. Prior to this, Kushal has animated at C.O.R.E Digital Pictures (Toronto) and worked in directorial capacities with some of the most respected names in Indian animation. As a visual storyteller, Kushal is also a published and critically acclaimed photographer with his works displayed in internationally reputed exhibitions.
Vijay.M.H
Project Manager, Specular Computer Graphics
Vijay worked in Macmillan India Limited as Sr Graphic Designer and now he is partner in Specular Computer Graphics and he also take care of project execution . Vijay has 7 years of experience in the field of Animation, 3D Architectural rendering, 2D printing and graphics. Specular Computer Graphics is one of the leading 3d Architectural service providers.
Aroop Dwivedi
Mentor(Animation and Pre-Production), I-nurture Solutions
Aroop has 12 years experience under his belt, has worked on several international as well as domestic projects eg : Dragon Tales, Seven Little Monsters,Tommy and Oscar, Temo Supremo and Atlantis Computer game among several others. For the last six years he has been working closely with Animation Training Industry , training students in Animation and Pre production, he is also passionately involved in developing syllabus and Contents for various Universities, While making short Animation Films independently and developing intellectual property Content."
S.Rinju Bhargavi
3DS Max Expert, Picasso Animation
Graduated in Computer Application , 2004, Bangalore, and Professional Diploma in 3D at Maya Academy of Advanced Cinematics, 2006-2008, Bhubaneswar. She has 4 years of professional experience in 3D Character Modeling ,Texturing, Lighting, Rigging, Animation and Dynamics,3D Architectural Modeling ,Texturing and Lighting using plug-in like Mental Ray and V-Ray using FG and GI. Experience as a mentor in Autodesk 3DS Max, Autodesk Maya, Adobe Photoshop CS3, Adobe Fireworks, Adobe Flash, Illustrator, CorelDraw UNIX, and C++. Rinju has trained more than 200 students during the last 4 years .
Sushil Kumar
Founder and CEO , RealAxis Software
Sushil Kumar is founder and CEO of RealAxis Software, RealAxis is indie game development studio working on their first title "stained". He is self taught graphics designer and animator using open source modeling and animation tool called Blender. Sushil has created 3d visualization software using Java back in 2006, and still part of many open source 3D software projects. He enjoy doing python scripting. Blender is at a core of RealAxis game engine pipeline and being used extensively for animation, modeling and data import/export.
Reena.I. Puri
Chief Editor, Amar Chitra Katha.
Reena is currently working as the Editor of Amar Chitra Katha, the comics magazine series on mythology, folklore, classics and history, for children. Has led the team for the revival of the series with new titles.Has created a new range of picture story books for younger children in the narrative format. These come under the series names Amar Chitra Katha Junior. Reena was Associate Editor of Tinkle, the comics magazine for children in Mumbai from 1991 to 2005, where I worked with and learned about making comics and more importantly about writing for children, from the legendary Anant Pai.Special concerns - the environment and animal rights.
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