1.5 lakh students to get animation training

Updated on: Friday, November 25, 2011

In an initiative to be undertaken through IT clubs in schools by IT@School Project, as many as 1.5 lakh school students are set to be equipped with animation skills by December. A minimum of 50 students each from a school would attend the training programme.

The free software-based application - Ktoon is to be mainly used in the animation training programmes. In May this year, the project had trained 1,586 select students in animation skills with the help of whom 12,535 students were trained during Onam vacation.

School IT co-ordinators, drawing teachers and students who have already mastered animation movie-making skills would be used for the large-scale training in December.

The innovative training session takes the students through a virtual tour of the entire animation movie making process comprising identification of a story line, development of script and preparation of storyboard, drawing the cartoon characters, animating them etc.

“The training during Onam vacation has been a hit. We have already submitted the documents to Guinness Book of World Records for terming the training given to 12,535 students during Onam vacation as the world’s largest of its kind,” said K.Anvar Sadath, executive director, IT@School.

1.5 lakh students to get animation training

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