BIG AIMS Announces Admission To B.A. In Animation & Visual Effects Film Making Course

Online, September 21, 2011 (Newswire.com) - BIG AIMS, the education venture in the field of Animation and VFX Film making form Reliance Animation & Annamalai University invites application for India's first ever comprehensive degree program in Animation & Visual Effects Film making.

A degree program like this is sure to create a deep-rooted positive impact on the future of Indian Animation and VFX industry, a sector that has witnessed unprecedented growth in the last few years. The academy is already among the finest in the country with students pursuing some of the most extensive courses in the field of Animation and VFX filmmaking. The academy aims to bridge the gap between present animation and VFX training methodologies by addressing the real needs of the industry.

Course Content:

1. Degree Program : B.A. in Animation & Visual Effects Film Making

Highlights:

Course covered:

FOCUS - The course specifically focuses more on storytelling through the form of Animation and Visual Effects Film Making. Hence, live action filmmaking classes are integrated in the course.

THE COURSE CURRICULUM is based on shaping a specific Animation and VFX project from ideation to script and script to screen, with all the studio practices followed in Animation Film making Industry with examples of case studies to support the learning.
ARTS LED- As all aspects of storytelling and film making require a basic foundation of artistic, creative or performing skills, the focus is on Arts and the degree awarded will be Bachelor of Arts.

Delivery Mode: The course will have regular classroom lectures, hands-on practice, interactive sessions, seminars, tutorials, group discussions, case study presentations.

To address this opportunity, the degree program launched by BIG AIMS along with their regular certificate courses in Animation and VFX filmmaking has emerged as among the finest programs in the country. Designed and equipped to help aspiring students understand the deliverables as per the industry standards and groom them to become industry ready in terms of output from day one, BIG AIMS also inculcates the core mantra among its students that this industry is all about effective story telling that the students must emerge as successful storytellers to taste the success.

Classes are taught by highly experienced faculty at all our BIG AIMS education centers.

Why do Degree Program from BIG AIMS?

India is a country where Science and Commerce Studies are always considered superior than Arts. Here the rule is merit students go for science & commerce schools and average students go for arts school. And talking about 'Fine Arts'! many will ask, "What is that?"

And this is why...

BIG AIMS in collaboration with Annamalai University designed this bachelor program in Animation Visual Effects Film Making. The main mission of this program is to spot light the Arts area and show the young minds of our country who venture into this industry, how much important it is to become an efficient story teller and animated content creator rather than to be a mere technician who do outsourced jobs from Hollywood. And that is the prime reason we have named it as Bachelor of Arts even though our course contents are very much competitive to the Science courses available in the same major. Science without Art becomes lifeless.

• The academy is already the finest in the country.

• It aims to bridge the gap between present animation and VFX training methodologies vis-a-vis the real industry needs.

• Curriculum and training methodology designed and equipped to help aspiring students understand the deliverables as per the industry standards and groom them to become industry ready in terms of output.

• Top-notch faculty members from both industry and academia.

• Regular seminars and special classes with Reliance Animation's art, creative and technical directors.

* Best in class infrastructure.

Last Date: Admission for Course closes on 30th October 2011 at 6 pm

Eligibility: 10+2

For the right candidate with proper skill set, sky is the limit in terms of opportunity in this field. Also young imaginative minds who wish to make a career in animation with skill sets in painting, music, acting, and various other performing arts will always carry an additional advantage since this medium is a convergence of every form of artistic and creative expressions. So if one is creative and has the ability to think out of the box, this will always be the most preferred profession to pursue.

Selection Process: Personal interview during the counseling session / Entrance aptitude test

How to apply: Prospectus can be obtained from BIG AIMS centers for Rs.450/ - between (time) on all working days (Monday to Saturday).

Contact: Nearest BIG AIMS center

Last date for submission of forms: 30th October 2011

About BIG AIMs:

BIG AIMS, a premier Animation and VFX film making academy of Reliance Animation, is part of Reliance Entertainment - the largest entertainment group in India.

BIG AIMS has been incepted to bridge the gap between present training methodologies and answer the real professional needs of the Animation and VFX filmmaking industry. In other words, BIG AIMS positions itself as an Academy that inculcates learning in the real-time production environment to equip the students to perform as per the demands of the industry from day one.

BIG AIMS's young animators and VFX film makers have already been placed successfully in some of the most renowned studios in the country like Accel Animation Studios, Fountain Pixel Animations, Prime Focus, Pixion, Prana Studios, Reliance Animation, Reliance Media Works, Side FX Entertainment, Ven Sat to name a few.

About Annamali University:

Started in 1929, the Annamalai University is a unitary, teaching, and residential university located at Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, South India. It was founded by the munificence of the farsighted and noble hearted philanthropist and patron of letters the late Hon'ble Dr. Rajah Sir Annamalai Chettiar of Chettinad, Kt, LL.D., D.Litt. Since its inception, it has progressively tried to realize the aims of the noble Founder Pro-Chancellor.

The present Pro-Chancellor Dr. M.A.M. Ramaswamy, a philanthropist and a patron of sports, is the distinguished son of Dr. Rajah Sir Muthiah Chettiar. The University has had the unique good fortune of having a succession of eminent Vice-Chancellors to guide its destinies. During the last eighty two years of its existence the University has grown rapidly and has consolidated its position as a unitary and residential University with forty-nine Departments of Study and over 3240 members on its teaching staff.

Annamalainagar is already a busy and full-fledged University town, east of Chidambaram, the abode of Lord Nataraja. The University campus, including the colleges, hostels, and playgrounds, occupies an area of about thousand acres. The Directorate of Distance Education Annamalai University established in 1979 offers more than 500 programs of study. All the programs offered by the Directorate of Distance Education have the approval of the Distance Education Council, New Delhi. The national assessment and the accreditation council have accredited Annamalai University.

For further information, please contact:

Dhrubo Banerjee
BIG AIMS
Cell: 9833568006