Adobe Photoshop CS6 : Enhanced 3D Options

Since Photoshop CS3, Adobe has done numerous changes for their 3D option. But in CS6, they just revamped the whole tool with more options to create precise 3D effects. Here is the quick demo of Adobe Photoshop CS6 3D Demo by IceFlowStudios.

Enjoy the video.

Adobe introduces Creative Suite 6

Though there have been plenty of previews of Adobe Creative Suite 6 before today’s big product announcement (not the least of which was the public beta of Photoshop CS6), Adobe has now unveiled not only all 14 updated applications, but also its new and much-debated Creative Cloud subscription service. The $75 per month Creative Cloud offering (or $50 per month with an annual membership), serves up all the CS6 applications as well as Adobe Muse and Edge Preview, two new HTML5 products. Originally introduced last fall in conjunction with the original Adobe Touch tablet-based apps, the subscription service not only lets you download and install the Adobe desktop applications to your PC, but it also includes connectivity to Adobe Touch apps and provides 20GB of cloud-based storage so you can access your files from any web browser, and view, synchronize, and share your files across multiple computing devices (e.g., tablet and desktop PCs). Existing users of CS3, CS4, CS5, and CS5.5 are being offered a discounted introductory price of $30 per month and there’s also a free membership with only 2GB of storage space that lets you synchronize and share files across devices, and includes 30-day free trials of all the desktop applications included in the paid membership.

For the folks who balk at the idea of a monthly subscription, of course, you can still buy the CS6 apps on their own the traditional way: by coughing up a lot of cash up front.  As usual, there are a number of different bundles available-the four this time around comprise CS6 Design & Web Premium ($1,899), Design Standard ($1,299), Production Premium ($1,899), and Master Collection ($2,599). Upgrade pricing is $299 for Design Standard, $399 for the two Premium editions and $549 for Master Collection.

Key application updates include:

Adobe Photoshop CS6: Photoshop (and Photoshop Extended) has been revamped significantly, most noticeably with its darker (though customizable) and more modern interface and major performance increases enabled by hardware acceleration. New features abound as well (see related post), with even more tools that take advantage of content-aware technology. Also significantly, video features that were previously available only in Photoshop Extended have been moved to the standard version, though 3D tools remain in the Extended version.

Adobe Illustrator CS6: Like Photoshop, Illustrator has been updated with a more modern look (dark gray by default, but customizable) and performance boosts via GPU acceleration.  Key features include a new image tracing engine, a new pattern creation tool, and the ability to apply gradients to strokes. The new version also includes 64-bit support for both Windows and Mac (as Photoshop has since CS5).

Adobe InDesign CS6: Key features in the updated version of Adobe’s page-layout application include new Adaptive Design Tools, including Alternate Layout (lets you easily create multiple layouts of the same document for different devices or prints), Liquid Layout (lets you apply page rules that automatically adapt content as you change layout size, orientation, etc.) , Content Collector Tools (lets you grab multiple pieces of content from an existing layout and repurpose them the same document or different documents), and Linked Content (lets you link content from document to document, or layout to layout within the same document, so changes are applied across the linked text or objects).

Adobe Premiere Pro CS6: As with Photoshop and Illustrator, Adobe’s video editing application sports a new interface and big hardware acceleration performance boosts. The streamlined interface includes a new Project Panel with large (and resizable) 16×9 thumbnails that allow you to preview clips by what Adobe calls Hover Scrub (i.e., hovering and sliding your mouse across the thumbnail to scrub through the video) and even click inside the clip to set  in and out points. New advanced trimming tools allow you to trim clips directly in the timeline using keyboard shortcuts or dynamically inside the Program Monitor. New adjustment layers let you apply effects across multiple clips (similar to layers in Photoshop) and create masks to make changes to a selected area of a shot.

Arena Animation Chowringhee No.1 in West Bengal

The day 12th May 2012 is memorable for us because Arena Animation Chowringhee was awarded India Education Excellence Award 2012 for the 'Best Animation & VFX Institute in West Bengal' by Time Research Media. The prestigious award was received by Centre Director Mr. A.D. Singh from the famous author Mr. Chetan Bhagat at Crown Plaza Hotel, New Delhi. We are extremely proud of this achievement. Now we are the No.1 Animation & VFX institute in Bengal.

Arena Chowringhee’s Annual Fest Interface Awards 2011 held on 10th Dec’11

With the objective of recognizing creative excellence in graphics and animation, the 14^th Annual Awards ceremony by the students of Arena Animation, Chowringhee was held on the 10^th of December 2011 at Vidya Mandir, Kolkata.

The Director of the Chowringhee centre, Mr. A.D.Singh said that this Annual Fest is an interface – a platform in order to recognize talent and promote it.. The students will be showcasing their works in different categories like Promotional Ad Campaign, Cartooning, Flash Animation, 3D Game Character design, Comics, Live Action, Photography and Web Template besides Short Film category called Chalochhobi.

The contests started from the month of Apr’11 culminate with its grand finale Awards show.During the show, the final nominations were showcased and the winners will be announced for each category. Along with this the students chipped in by performances in skits, fashion show, dance, songs.

The show was anchored by Roy, RJ of Fever channel. Red FM was the online radio partner for the same. More than 165 students have participated in the contests which have been judged by respected professionals in the industry. All of these judges are very respected in the industry consisting of names like Arthur Cardozo, Santosh Sawant, Pankaj Maloo, Shambhu Jaiswal etc.

The chief guest for the show was the table percussionist Tanmoy Bose who was all praises for the student’s work. The complete details are available on the website www.arenainterface.com

Mr. Singh has said that he would like to go a step forward in the coming year and open the contest to all professionals in the industry so that students can compete at par with others in the industry.

Winners of Interface Awards 2011

Logo Animation
 1st  - Jayanta Das
2nd - Rajat Bhowmick
3rd - Shalini Pandey
4th - Roopam Bagish, Vivekananda Basuli & Sudipta Karak
5th -Manash Parh, Tanmoy Das, Arindam Bhunia

Graphics Advertisement
1st - Sauban Ahmed
2nd - Avinoba Koley
3rd - Kishaloy Panja
4th - Jyoti Sinha
5th - Pallabi Lahiri

 2D Illustration
1st - Donald Welly Syngkren
2nd - Shreya Choudhuri
3rd - Sudeshna Dutta
4th - Ahana Sen
5th - Rupsa Sengupta

Comics
1st - Shemontini Guha
2nd - Donald Welly Syngkren, Shyamasree Banerjee & Shereen Darity Ranee
3rd - Sayantan Majumdar & Anshu Agarwal
4th - Shalini Pandey
5th - Toufique Qureshi

Web Template Design
1st - Satyajit Chatterjee
2nd - Tuhin Mukherjee
3rd - Avinoba Koley
4th - Asit Midya
5th - Ayan Chakraborty
6th - Subhanu Majumdar

3D Game Character
1st - Kishan Bhowmick
2nd - Namonita Koley
3rd - Rajdip Sarangi
4th - Tamal Bhowmick
5th - Karamjit Singh

Photography
1st - Vivekananda Basuli

Live Action
1st - Shyamasree Banerjee, Rupsa Sengupta & Jyoti Singh (Sesh Chithi)

Best Batch
TTS 5-7, Faculty - Amit Gupta (8 students)
Abhijit Halder
Ankush Chatterjee
Anindya Sundar Mondal
Arup Kr. Singha
Dipayan Dutta
Mahendra Prasad
Surojit Chatterjee
Juhi Sharma

Mr. Arena
Kishan Bhowmick
Miss Arena
Namonita Koley
 

Interface Awards was held on 13th Nov ’10, presented by Arena Chowringhee.

This year 2010 was the most extravagance year for showcasing the best performance by the students of Arena Animation Chowringhee at Vidya mandir on 13 november in the presence of students, their family and team members of Arena chowringhee.

This year we had our centre director Mr.H.S. Azad on the stage speaking about the establishment of this institution . How by every brick to brick construction had been made this arena chowringhee the best voted animation centre in the eastern zone for the last 12 years . He spoke about the hard work involved behind this whole scenario for upbringing of this institution and the whole trade also included the priceless effort of Mr. A.D. Singh who has given his life’s 12 years to make it stand.

Mr A.D. Singh , our centre head of chowringee also spoke a few words that how his enthusiasm grows with success of every student. He really cherished the moment when Mr. Rizwanur Rahman used to be the part of this institution, but even now the whole team of chowringhee and the devoted students do keep him alive in their thoughts.

The evening’s atmosphere lighted up with the performance of the students dance on classical numbers and heart throbbing melodious songs of Rabindranath Tagore and enthusiastically it was enjoyed by the over all audience.

This year we had several awards to bring up the gusto of our students and again they proved themselves to be the best by bagging all the awards in almost all categories. This year we had best 2D illustration , best 3D illustration with character design of the epics of Mahabharata. Then it was followed by the award for the best Comics where the students gave in there passion for work to bring out the real effect of hardwork with a little spice of their creativity. This year also the most awaited award was our Mr. and Ms. Arena 2010, where all the students where pounding on their heart to know the results of achiever and which finally came out with a thrill.
The show continued to very whelming with dance performers who gave it a new twist. This time Arena Chowringhee presented a mixer of the western mode and eastern earnest of the dance performances , where all the students have given their months of efforts to make it a big success. Eventually the evening came in with more surprises comprising of a drama which made the audience laugh their heart out.
Then it was the time for our eminent faculties to come up on the stage for their hard work in upbringing the institute. It was rather followed by our administration department and the coworkers on the floor.



The magical night comes to an end with a earnest thanks giving to our chief guest, Ms Rupanjana Mitra and the parents who drastically proved to be the real people to be privileged for this immemorable smaching night. We also imparted our special thanks to our jury and co sponsors - Keventer Agro, Frooti, Metro Diary, Animation Express, Official Radio Partner Power 107.8 F.M, Platinum Sponsor Glaamour, LG, GD Group, Printdesk, Millenium constructions, Chabria, Hi Tech engineers. We warm heartedly imparted our special token of thanks to Mr. H.S. Azad and Mr. A.D. Singh to put up the beautiful night with the excellent shows. This thing again showed the efficiency of the students and team members regarding the togetherness and jeal to prove this arena chowringhee to be the best voted centre of the Eastern India. The night mop up with a sublime eagerness and promise to be back again with a blast to create a new bench mark.

‘ARTHUR’S ADDA’ – THINKING OUT OF THE BOX WORKSHOP @ ARENA ANIMATION CHOWRINGHEE

Graphic design & advertisement can also be termed as a blend of artistic and professional disciplines that focuses on visual communication and presentation. The field as a whole is also often referred to as Visual Communication or Communication Design. The workshop named ‘Arthur’s Adda’ was held on 24th July 2010 by the famous advertising professional & workshop Guru- Mr. Arthur Cardozo and Mr. Subrata Bhowmick- who has been working as an Art Director for the past 35 years in this field .

A huge number of students gathered here to participate in the interactive workshop which focused on brainstorming the students. To become a good advertising professional one needs to develop his creativity level, idea generating skill, innovative thinking, the way to represent himself, sell that particular brand, hard work, personal commitment and at last but not the least a good team worker.

Mr. Cardozo got the students involved a few exercises which aimed at developing the creativity of the students.

In the first process, everyone present in that seminar were asked to think about ideas regarding ads. Participants came up with various concepts as well as ideas of ads.

Then the second process involved of creating a personalized logo of each student. Students were asked to make the logo of the first letter of their name. Students got very innovative designs and we got some impressive output from them.

Arthur also described that creativity can not be defined in a single word. It is totally depends on one’s perception. A few phases are involved in making an ad. These are –

Idea generation – an initial way to communicate in different thinking.
Execution – To elaborate the idea in a transparent way.
Promotion – To launch those ideas through media.


Arthur showed a few international ads to the students which were a blend of some extraordinary concepts. Students were extremely excited to watch all of them and came up with some various questions.After that he gave home work to each student i.e. to make the logo of ‘ANMOL’ from their own creative ideas. Students were asked to send that work within a week.

After this fabulous session of Arthur, Mr. Bhowmick came up with a few awesome concepts regarding advertisements. He emphasized on the various topics of ads and students got some valuable ads to observe.

The session concluded with the prize distribution for the ‘Arenite of the Month’ and the ‘Academic performer of the month’. The ‘Arenite of the Month’ for June ’10 was bagged by Mr. Utpal Nandi. The ‘Academic performer of the Month’ for June ’10 was awarded to Pallabi Nandi. The closing speech was elated by Mr. A. D Singh, our Centre Head, during which he emphasized on participation in contests without thinking about the outcome. According to him, participation makes an individual judge his own standard of work and gives a scope to an individual to improve his work.

CHARACTER ANIMATION IN FLASH

Animation can be created by using many different mediums. One of the most common and popularly used medium is creating an animation using Flash. To enhance student’s knowledge and to make the students well versed with the current market needs Arena Animation Chowringhee organized a three day workshop on Character Animation in Flash from 26th April to 29th April ’10 at Arena Chowringheee.

This workshop was conducted by a very famous personality from the animation industry named Mr. Santosh Sawant currently working as Creative Director with Phoebus Media Pvt. Ltd.

There were 20 students who participated in this workshop. This was done by organizing a test for all students where they had to create a character in flash and out of which only best twenty were selected.

The workshop aimed at explaining the students the process of animation in Flash. They were also given not only theoretical knowledge but also had to go through a lot of brainstorming sessions.

Day 1
The first day Mr. Sawant gave an introduction to the students as to how to create an animation in Flash and explaining the animation principles to them. He also explained as to how it could be used in a commercial way and what the future prospects are.

Day 2
This day students were given assignments on walk cycles and run cycles. Students were very enthusiastic while working on these assignments. Everyone had to create a walk cycle for their character in Flash. This was done to give practical knowledge to the students about what they had learnt on the first day.

Day 3
These day students had to create a story board for a short film that the students would be making. There were five groups each group consisting of 4 students in a group. The storyboard was planned for the film which would be finally executed in Flash.

Finally after the completion of the workshop the students had created a Generic Model in Flash.

We got a tremendous response from the students. They participated in the workshop with immense enthusiasm and zeal. Students created the storyboard and now are on the process of creation of a short film in Flash.