There is something about the students from small towns, something special.
The kids from bigger cities have all the advantages & a lot of guidance from their schools, colleges, peers & parents which is not the case with kids from smaller towns.
A colleague recently told me that it is the smaller town students who are the main artists in his animation studio & it will be the same for many years. The well to do & bigger city kids are not that keen on something like animation for some unknown reason. This is very true & across most studios in the country most of them will be from the smaller towns.
This is my own personal experience too.
Over the last 6 months 3 of our students have been working on an I-phone game .These 3 students completed their diploma in 3D animation & specialization with Seamedu Animation & Arts. Immediately after the completion of their course they were selected for internships based upon their performance & their interviews conducted by a game development company at the Seamedu campus.
These 3 students are now working with the game company.
It is a long story told in brief, but these students who come from a Ichalkaranji got started into animation because of their passion for the medium, but as always there are hurdles in ones path. They joined a local institute which got them started but couldn’t do more than that. Then they came to our school in Pune and for a year’s time struggled it out.
The problems were many, lack of exposure to the larger world, language barriers as the medium of learning in animation is English, financial troubles etc. But the six of them who came down to Pune came out shining thru all the challenges.
As they say lady luck favours the brave, today 2 of these six students have done a project in Bangalore which returned back their fees spent on learning & the other three of them have just finished designing a game of international standards.
We have students from all across Maharashtra, but it has been my observation over the last 10 years or so spent in animation that it is not the most talented that matters in animation, but the most persistent of them wins.
The small town students have a definite edge at least when it comes to making a career in the animation medium, as they are not only persistive but also have the raw talent needed to suceed.
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| Pravin Kamble, Sandeep Shinde, Suraj Ranbhare now working with Rolocule Games |
Footnote
The 3 Seamedu Animation & Arts students Pravin Kamble(Character Rigging Artist), Sandeep Shinde,(Character Modeling) Suraj Ranbhare(Environment & Lighting artist) have finished making a sports game for Rolocule Games on the I-Phone available on the Apple App store.
