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Creative Multimedia celebrates International Animation Day. 35 students of the college win prestigious Pixellence awards.

Creative Multimedia – winner of the ‘Best Digital Media Academy in India’ Award celebrated ‘International Animation Day’ and declared a highly successful placements season with excellent placements despite the pandemic.

India’s Largest Digital Media Education powerhouse’ celebrated the event at its global standard campus at Dilsukhnagar, Hyderabad on Thursday, 28th of October 2021 from morning till noon.

Creative Multimedia has been celebrating International Animation Day every year for the past 16 years with great fanfare. The event aims to bring students closer to the industry and to honour and encourage outstanding talent in Animation, VFX, Gaming, Web & Graphic Design.

The MD & CEO of Creative Multimedia, RajaSekhar Buggaveeti delivered the inaugural address and renewed his commitment to ‘Enhancing Employability’. Addressing the students, he reminded them that Creative Multimedia affords the finest infrastructure, mentoring, value-additions, and placements in the industry and urged them to take advantage of these privileges to pursue a successful career and bring laurels to the academy and the country.

The prestigious ‘Pixellence Awards’ aimed at recognizing outstanding arts talent were presented by Creative Multimedia CEO RajaSekhar Buggaveeti to 35 winners across 17 categories of Animation, VFX, Web, and Graphic Design. Entries were judged on 4 parameters: concept, design, quality, and presentation.

Many live-action, 2D animation short films, such as ‘Be in the moment’, ‘Error 404’, ‘Ulta-Plus’, and ‘Charvani’ crafted by BFA students of Creative Multimedia were screened to a rousing reception. These films, some of which gained international recognition, were created by students are part of Creative Multimedia’s training aimed at producing industry-ready artists.

Many successful alumni now working at top MNCs around the globe attended the event and shared their experiences with students even as they found themselves reminiscing about their good old days at Creative Multimedia and the college’s extraordinary placements.

Injecting josh into the day’s proceedings was a string of high-voltage cultural programs: there was song, dance, instrumental music, and more. Performers belted out popular movie numbers and set the stage on fire with foot-thumping dance moves as the young crowd went wild with excitement.

A compelling quiz program, a live guitar performance, a rap gig, and a series of games were some of the other programs that enlivened the proceedings and made it a truly memorable day for students of India’s premier digital media education group.

The day ended with a sincere thanks to students, parents, alumni, guests, and well-wishers who turned up in large numbers and made the event a grand success.

Creative Multimedia Group Celebrated International Women’s Day in a Creative Way

Creative Multimedia, India’s most prolific multimedia training and placements engine celebrated International Women’s Day on 08 March 2021 at its Dilsukhnagar campus with a Blood Donation Camp and a string of women-oriented sessions that triggered great excitement.

The International Women’s Day Celebrations was aimed at inspiring the young girls at Creative Multimedia and featured a public speaking session on illustrious woman achievers, quiz competitions and various indoor games for young girls.

At Creative Multimedia Group, India’s leading digital media education catalyst, women empowerment has always been an important goal.

The best digital media in India academy award winner intends to inspire and produce a woman star who can smash the glass ceiling in the next five years and show that women can also rise to positions of power and excel in traditionally male dominated job disciplines such as Animation, VFX, UI/UX and Graphic Design.

Over 150 students and staff of Creative multimedia donated blood, effectively helping save 450 precious lives. (Donation by one person helps save three lives)

The day-long blood donation drive from 9.30 a.m. to 5 p.m. was held in aid of Thalassemia patients. It was inaugurated by Shri Devireddy Sudheer Reddy, MLA – LB Nagar and Chairman – MRFDC, Govt of Telangana. Speaking on the occasion he appreciated the initiative taken by Creative Multimedia’s students and staff. He felt that these kinds of blood donation camps are the need of the hour, especially during this tough time of pandemic situation.

‘We are proud of our students and staff members for coming forward to donate their blood for a noble cause of extending the lives of Thalassemia children’ says Rajasekhar Buggaveeti, founder and CEO of Creative Multimedia Group.

Creative Multimedia Group has conducted scores of blood donation camps in association with Red Cross Society for the past ten years and has even received several awards from the Honourable Governor of Telangana in recognition of its noble service.

Creative Multimedia Group comprising “Creative Multimedia Academy” and “Creative Multimedia College of Fine Arts” is India’s leading digital media mentor focused on Enhancing EmployabilityTM and delivering MNC job opportunities for students through its signature placement initiative “Our campus – Your Interviews®”.

Creative Multimedia @ Indiajoy 2019

Pencils & Pixels Art Competition make an impressive debut at India’s largest digital media and entertainment event.

Creative Multimedia Group, India’s largest and best digital media career catalyst participated in the 2nd edition of Indiajoy and made its presence felt with its new talent discovery initiative: The ‘Pencils and Pixels Art Competition’.

Indiajoy is the largest congregation of Gaming, Animation, VFX, E-Sports and Entertainment Events in India. A digital entertainment revolution of sorts, Indiajoy attracted over 30,000 visitors from 50 countries and was held for 4 days from 20 – 24 November 2019 at HICC, Novotel, Hyderabad.

One of the biggest attractions at Indiajoy 2019 was the Pencils and Pixels Art Competition. Conceptualized and executed by Creative Multimedia Group, the art competition turned out to be a favourite among the crowds with heightened participation on all the three days (20 – 23 Nov. 2019). The competition was sponsored by reputed digital media and entertainment companies including Digital Domain, DNEG, DQ Entertainment, Firefly Studios, Green Gold Animation, Makuta, MPC, Purple Talk, and Rotomaker.

The ‘open-to-all’ traditional and digital art competition challenged participants in 15 categories including Face Painting, Manual Sculpting, Traditional Painting, Sketching, Cosplay, Photography, Origami, Digital Concept Art, Digital Matte Paint, Rotoscopy, Matchmove, 3D Lighting, 3D Animation, Digital Sculpting, and Particle Dynamics.

People across age groups and professions including students and professionals participated enthusiastically in this three-day, traditional and digital art competition. Veterans from diverse verticals of the digital media and entertainment industry were invited to judge the entries and give away the prizes. They spent quality time with participants, especially students from various multimedia academies and appreciated their art skills. A total of 69 winners and runner-ups took home prizes, award certificates, cash vouchers, and even job offers.

The special guests from the industry who graced the competition, inspired students with their pep talk and gave away the prizes included: Mr. P.C. Sanath – Founder, Firefly Creative Studio, Mr. Srinivas Mohan – VFX Supervisor, 4-time national award winner and member of the prestigious Academy Awards Committee (Oscars), Mr. Seth Crofton – Vice President, Chillar Games, Mr. Madhav Reddy – Founder & CEO, Rotomaker, Ms. Sonali Joshi – Senior Recruitment Manager, Digital Domain, Mr. Dileep Varma – Founder, Cirqus Arts, Mr. Asish Dantu – Pipeline Supervisor, Digital Domain India, and Mr. Srinivas Vasanthala – Head of 3D, DQ Entertainment.

Thanks to the overwhelming response garnered by Pencils and Pixels Art Competition, Creative Multimedia Group is chalking out plans to initially organize the event at multiple locations across the states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, followed by a national roll-out in a phased manner.

Despite growing demand for CG artists, there are scores of talented freshers across the country, ready to be employed but are missing out on job opportunities due to various factors including poor visibility and access. The Pencils and Pixels Art Competition seeks to bridge this gap by creating an invaluable talent discovery platform with benefits for both career aspirants as well as recruiters. Essentially, Pencils and Pixels will leverage Multimedia Group (India’s largest and best digital media career catalyst) to afford valuable job opportunities the vast placement network (comprising leading CG studios and MNCs) of Creative for winners of the art competition.