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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.

Intensive Character Design Workshop for Animation, VFX & Gaming career aspirants…

…part of the many on-going value-additions for B.A. Visual Arts Degree students of Creative Multimedia College of Fine Arts.

Thursday, the 2nd of May, 2019 proved to be an inspiring and fruitful day for students pursuing their 1st-year B.A. Visual Art (Animation & VFX) and B.A. Visual Arts (Applied Art) programs at CMCFA, one of India’s finest destinations for Creative Arts education. CMCFA organized a day-long, participative character design workshop.

The workshop was conducted by Aditya N Chari, a fine arts graduate and gifted artist with over 18 years of experience in character design, caricatures, comic illustrations, and paintings. He worked as a Concept Lead, Character Designer, Graphic Designer, Visualizer, Animator, and BG/Layout/Pre-Production Artist. He also freelanced for many reputed companies. His professional associations include Prana Studios, Virgin Comics, Reliance Infocomm, Grey Worldwide, Leo Burnett, Lintas, McKann Ericsson, Ogilvy & Mather, Aurobindo Society, Forbes, Hungama.com, ISCKON, and MTV, to name a few.

He is the best-selling author+Illustrator of three books on figure drawing. As a character sketch/concept artist, he worked for many films including Bahubali (Bhallala Deva character) and frequently holds portrait demonstrations, one-man shows (exhibitions) and group shows. As a mentor, he earlier taught figure drawing and character design at Animation Art School-Goa and is currently teaching design fundamentals at Gurukul School of Design apart from delivering guest lectures frequently.

Bringing his vast experience to the workshop, Mr. Aditya took students on a steep learning curve, covering different facets of the craft, while offering the techniques and tips vital to creating professional character design. Commencing at eight in the morning, the workshop was split into three sessions and wrapped up at four in the evening. Students had many takeaways from the workshop: step by step, hands-on methods to draw; using a reference to improve drawing skills, developing character from rough sketches to developed concepts, line & stroke techniques, building versatility and key skills needed to create a fully illustrated character.

The workshop was conducted by Aditya N Chari, a fine arts graduate and gifted artist with over 18 years of experience in character design, caricatures, comic illustrations, and paintings. He worked as a Concept Lead, Character Designer, Graphic Designer, Visualizer, Animator, and BG/Layout/Pre-Production Artist. He also freelanced for many reputed companies. His professional associations include Prana Studios, Virgin Comics, Reliance Infocomm, Grey Worldwide, Leo Burnett, Lintas, McKann Ericsson, Ogilvy & Mather, Aurobindo Society, Forbes, Hungama.com, ISCKON, and MTV, to name a few.

The workshop was dedicated to Satyajit Ray – one of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th century, on the occasion of his 98th birth anniversary.

The workshop was organized by CMCFA as part of its multiple initiatives aimed at helping students acquire vital job-skills. This focus on producing highly-trained, job-ready artists is one of the many defining features of CMCFA’s training and its spectacular placements result in every year. Leading recruiters in the animation, gaming and VFX sectors prefer CMCFA students and frequently conduct campus drives at the college due to the high concentration of highly trained creative talent. The biggest advantage that students of CMCFA have over their peers at other colleges is placement excellence.

Creative Multimedia College is one of India’s leading fine arts colleges offering the in-demand 3-year B.A. Visual Arts (Animation & VFX) and B.A. (Applied Art) Degree programs in association with the famed Jawaharlal Nehru Architecture and Fine Arts University (JNAFAU) – Hyderabad. These are industry-focused, up-to-date career programs acknowledged by the industry. Upon successful completion, students receive a prestigious degree from JNAFAU: a veritable passport to the job market with transferable skills, global employability, rewarding jobs, and good career growth opportunities.

Ever since inception, CMCFA has been committed to “Enhancing Employability” of its students and helping them gain the competitive edge in the job market. The college has shaped scores of winning careers and is considered a springboard to career success for students aspiring for a bright future in the global digital media and entertainment industry, especially the Animation, VFX, and Gaming verticals.