The Indian Rupee Symbol
The Indian Rupee symbol was accepted and approved by the Indian Government in the cabinet recently. The symbol was designed by D. Uday Kumar from IDC, IIT Bombay.
Congratulations, Uday!!! You have made history.
We’re very proud of you.
I wish you all the very best in all your future efforts!
For more information, click here. (It’s all over the news, actually)
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Impressive Indeed!
“Aaroha — DDS 2010″, an exhibition of the works of the graduating batch of IDC, IIT Bombay students of 2010, was held in Nehru Centre, Mumbai. Here’s an article that covers the impressive event and some student projects.
Please click here.
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Aaroha
I look forward to the annual exhibition held by the graduating design students of IDC, IIT Bombay. Tomorrow and the day after.
This event called “Aaroha” is to be held at the Nehru Centre,worli, Mumbai.
The students have all worked really hard on their projects over the past year and this exhibition is indeed a fitting finale!
All the very best, guys and gals! May the Force be with you!
if you’re looking for more information, please click here.
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Some more great news!
This is awesome!
This is the second award that the animation students of IDC, IIT Bombay have won in the past one month. After Vajra (covered in the 17th May 2010 post), Somnath won the CGTantra Community award in the students’ film category for his cute animation film “The Candy Tree”.
Hearty Congratulations, Somnath, I’m very proud of you!
Way to go!
For more information, click here
And, for those of you who are interested in animation teaching, here is a link to an interview of Prof. Nina Sabnani (a colleague of mine at IDC, IIT Bombay). (Nice to see this article, Nina )
Please click here for the interview.
- phani
DDS 2010
Every year, the graduating batch of the Industrial Design Centre (IDC), IIT Bombay showcases their creative work and projects through a grand exhibition. The event is called the “Design Degree Show”. This year’s event has been named “Aaroha – DDS 2010″ and will be held on the 22nd, 23rd and 24th of June, 2010 at the IDC, IIT Bombay and on the 26th and 27th of June, 2010 at the Nehru Centre, Bombay.
Apart from the exhibition, there will be seminars and workshops held by professionals and experts from the industry. This makes for a wonderfully interactive stage between the industry and academia, and brings the students and professionals together.
For those of you who would like to get more information on this event, click here.
More details on this as we get closer!
- phani
Jaipur
I was on an official trip to Jaipur, Rajasthan recently. I visited Rajasthan after many many years. I love the beauty of the people and state of Rajasthan. I enjoyed myself during the three days that I stayed there and interacted with the local people. I look forward to going back there sometime soon. Maybe during the coming winter
It was nice working with Prasad (on my right) and Nutan (on my left)
Catching up with Dr. Vibhuti Pandya after a long time
During a meeting with Prof. Bidyut Baruah
Thanks for the great time I had meeting you, Vibhuti and Bidyut.
(Vibhuti and Bidyut have been colleagues for a long time and they currently teach animation at the Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra at their Jaipur campus)
- phani
Great News!
Just as I was recovering from the power outage and as I started charging my mobile phone, last nights mails and messages began to pour in.
One of the emails was from my student, Vajra Pancharia. He wrote to tell me that his film “Hunger” had won the Frameflixx award for the best animation short film in the student category!
This is great news, Vajra! I’m very proud of you!
Congratulations! Way to go.
For more information, click here.
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New Delhi
Reached New Delhi after almost 17 months. The last I was here was when I came to deliver some lectures on Animation Pre Production at the Picasso Animation College, at their South extension centre. It was in the midst of winter, and it was as cold as ever.
Now it’s as hot as ever! While I was hoping to get some respite from the hot Hyderabad weather, the announcement on the aircraft as we were landing in the Delhi airport was “the outside temperature is 39 degrees”. And this was at 8pm! Well….from the frying pan to the fire 
In any case, I am looking forward to the Design Conclave I am attending tomorrow, being conducted by the Raffles Millenium Institute. The session is called “Designing your future”.
More on the Design Conclave here.
More updates tomorrow. Until then…
- Phani
Animation by Engineers!
This is a very nice animation short called “Kindergarten Dreams” made by the previous batch of B.tech students of IIT Bombay. I really liked the idea of the film and the execution. Apart from this, I will post other short films that the B.Tech students did as part of an Institute elective course that I had offered during this semester called “The Basics of Animation”. It was really refreshing seeing the latent talents showing potential! I enjoyed offering this course
Animafest 2010
This is a bit dated, but in my attempt to make up for lost time and catch up, I’m posting some highlights of the past three months.
The Industrial Design Centre (IDC), IIT Bombay, along with the French Consulate, organised a three day animation festival at the IDC in the last week of January, 2010. There were some interesting panel discussions and very good French and Indian professional and student films screened. It sure was a great beginning. Here’s hoping for a great future for the Animafest.
The Panelists (L to R): Ranjit Singh Tony, Jerzy Kular, Shelley Page and Sumant Rao
We enjoyed a 3D film screening during the opening of the festival
The sessions were engaging and enriching. It was a great experience to moderate the panel discussions.
Click here for more on the event
- Phani
