Arena Animation Barrackpore: Courses, Facilities

Mohith Kumar

Arena Animation Barrackpore, Kolkata is an Institute located in Kolkata, West Bengal. The Institute Provides courses in  Animation, Graphics, Web & VFX. The Institue offers 11 Courses in total. The Institute has been awarded for having Best Faculty amongst all other centers under the flagship of Arena Animation Group. The Institute is entitled as the Biggest Animation Center in West Bengal. The Institute has a good Placements Record. The Institute organizes free drawing as well as Clay Modelling Classes. Many Live Projects are created by the students of the college time to time.

Arena Animation incorporates a long-standing presence of over fifteen years in Barrackpore, Kolkata. Situated at eighty-seven Ghosh Para Road, the Barrackpore center is at 2 minutes of walking distance from the Barrackpore terminus and a few seconds walk from Disha Eye Hospital Bus-stop.

High-end infrastructure & artistic mentors who are always accessible for personal guidance for college students are the highlights of the Institute. The center is provided with progressive technology, high-end 2D & 3D animation tools, art rooms & labs – where the students can apply well their practices for up to 8-10 hours every day if needed.

The center regularly organizes parent-faculty interactive sessions, picnics with artistic learning, feedback sessions, sports day, and many more.

Arena Barrackpore conducts varied learning activities for the scholars, on the far side of the walls of the school rooms. Such sensible information gained through varied activities and private expertise results in the higher understanding of inventive ideas.

• Aankaja: Aankaja may be a two-day annual event conducted by Arena Animation Barrackpore. The event is a platform for the scholars to showcase their artworks – like graphics, and 2D & 3D animation short films. Around 700 to 800 guests, as well as the parents of the scholars, attend the event. A jury consisting of eminent personalities from the media & showbiz reviews the students' work, also offers inventive guidance to produce innovative concepts and criticizes constructively to assist them to improve. The Winners are awarded trophies & certificates throughout the Awards Night.

• Workshops & Master Classes: The center hosts workshops & master classes conducted by trade consultants. Recently, the National award-winning filmmaker Srijit Mukherjee conducted a special coaching session on writing for the scholars of Arena Animation Barrackpore.

• Drawing and clay modeling classes: The Institute offers drawing and clay modeling classes to reinforce the standard of the output of the work created by the scholars. Apart from artistic activities, students also are concerned about outdoors sports-together with cricket, football, and kabaddi. Indoor games and activities embody carom & darts.

The Institute celebrates varied festivals & special occasions where the scholars participate in activities together with singing, dancing, acting, and fun games. The day of remembrance of the Institute, Panchami Special Program on the eve of Durga Puja, and New Year's Day Eve Gala are some highlights of this institute.

Arena Animation Barrackpore, Kolkata Quick Links:

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Arena Animation Barrackpore, Kolkata Highlights:

Arena Animation Barrackpore, Kolkata Achievements:

• Arena group organizes a competition among its own centers called "Creative Minds". The Barrackpore Institute bagged 9 awards in 2012-13 Competition.
• Many Films created by the students are screened at various International Film Festivals.
• 3D animation short film, 'Safar – The Journey' created by the staff and the students of the college has been screened at River Film Festival, Italy, in 2014.

Arena Animation Barrackpore, Kolkata Infrastructure:

• Amongst all the centers under the flagship of Arena Animation group, the Institute is the Biggest animation center
• Free Drawing Classes are provided in the Institute.
• Free Clay Modelling Classes are provided in the Institute.
• The Classrooms are provided with Projectors and screens.
• In-house Animation Workshops are organized.
• All the facilities are available for making Live Projects.
• The Institute has progressive technology, high-end 2D & 3D animation tools, art rooms & labs.

Arena Animation Barrackpore, Kolkata Placements:

• The Institute prepares its students for both the technical and verbal interviews for the Placements.
• Students prepare their resume & a demo reel of their previous work before going for interviews.
• Students of the Institute are placed in many top Multi-national companies.
• Students are working in profiles like Web Developer, Video Editor, Front End Developer, ROTO Artist etc.
• Top Recruiters are NDTV, Zee TV, Flying Colors, Red Apple Tech etc.

Arena Animation Barrackpore, Kolkata Education Loans:

• Loan facility is available for economically weaker students.
• Documentation Procedure for the loan is not much complex.
• The disbursement is usually done within 48 hours.

Arena Animation Barrackpore, Kolkata Eligibility Criteria: