Mangaluru: The Department of Computer Science, Application and Animation of St. Aloysius College (Autonomous) organised ‘SPARKLE 2018’, a national-level animation seminar on December 8. The seminar was conducted at Fr. L.F. Rasquinha Hall, LCRI Block.
Rev. Fr. Denzil Lobo SJ, Director of AIMIT, Beeri campus was the chief guest of the event. The principal of St. Aloysius college Fr. Praveen Martis SJ presided over the function.
Inaugurating the event, he commented that “we live in a volatile world and we need leaders who have creativity inculcated in them”.
The speakers of the sessions were B S Srinivas, CEO – VedAtma Animation Studios (Secretary of ABAI), who spoke about career options in new age media. Addressing the participants, he said, “The new age media has been the key factor in globalisation, which has also led to the ‘death of distance’.”
The second session was taken up by Ganesh Papanna, director of Thought Cloud Studios (Vice President of ABAI), who spoke of the importance of IP, challenges and opportunities in animation. He said, “We live in a world where the value of creativity is misused by commercial sources and copyrights.”
The final session was taken up by 3D Animator, Amith Sanjeev, Rolling Dice Studios. He highlighted the importance of working as a team in the animation field.
The seminar also allowed students to showcase their talents in the field through various competitions such as video ad making, poster designing and pencil sketching.
