Creative Minds and Creative Guru 2010

A step was taken towards focusing and improvising the professional skills of the students which are required in today’s animation industry by Aptech Limited. This was done by a competition called Creative Minds 2010 which was held on Saturday 6th February 2010 at Vidya Mandir. All centers of the eastern zone participated in this competition which was held on a grand scale.

There were various categories for the competition and students had to follow certain guidelines for it. The categories were as follows – 2D Cartooning, 3D Modeling, Stop Motion Animation, 2D Short Film and 3D Short Film .Most of the entries were from arena Animation Chowringhee.

The works of the students were evaluated by a prestigious jury which comprised of PROF. R. L. MISTRY (ex-NID)Consultant-Communication Design and Visiting faculty-Animation and Graphics , Mr. Sekhar Mukherjee is presently the Senior Associate Faculty & Coordinator of Animation Film Design at NID , MR. YUNUS BUKHARI – VFX Supervisor & Creative Director and Founder, Artery Animation & Fx, Mumbai , Ranjit Singh (Tony) Co-promoter and present Honorary Secretary of The Animation Society of India – TASI and BITHIN DAS Creative Head of Sahara Samay.
There was huge student participation from our centre and most of the students gathered there to cheer their fellow mates whose works were selected for the competition. Around Nine entries were selected for the 2D Cartooning category, four for the 3D Modeling Category, Two for the stop Motion Category, Three for 2D Short Film and Two for 3D Short Film which was the highest from any other centre.

Mr. Shekhar Mukherjee appreciated the work of our student Sweta Jaiswal which was categorized undr Stop Motion Animation called Divinity, The Hope Of Life. All the Jury members pleased to see the 2D Short Film – Super Hero by Amrit Tigga , Sampa Kundu , Arindam Mondal and Sk Abul Fazl . there was huge appreciation in the crowd when the film was shown during the programme.



We are proud to announce that our student Anupam Sardar was awarded as the 1st Runner Up of the 3D Modeling category and in the 2nd Runner Up for 3D Short Film was awarded to the film called Reflection by Anupam Sardar , Soumendranath Patra , Rajib Pal and Sweta Roy Chowdhury.


This event was followed by Faculty Competition of the Eastern zone called Creative Guru 2010. This was organized for the 1st time. The jury comprised of R. L. MISTRY (ex-NID) Consultant-Communication Design and Visiting faculty-Animation and Graphics, Mr. Sekhar Mukherjee is presently the Senior Associate Faculty & Coordinator of Animation Film Design at NID, MR. YUNUS BUKHARI – VFX Supervisor & Creative Director and Founder, Artery Animation & Fx, Mumbai.
We are proud to announce that we made a clen sweep by winning both the awards of the Faculty Short Film. Mr Indranil Ghosh’s Docomo was the Winner of the Best Short Film and Mr Indranil Ghosh and Mr Biplab Dey Utsab was 1st Runner Up in this category.

By participating and winning Creative Minds and Creative Guru we aim at enhancing the student and faculty skills for today’s animation industry. We would continue to participate in such competitions and improve the quality even more.