Workshop on Ideation,Conceptualization & Producing of Programs

Television is one of the most powerful medium both in terms of generating economy and influencing societies by connecting people with diversified content. For a common person understanding this intricate medium can be very difficult. Thanks to ICAT Hyderabad to arrange a seminar by Mrs. Anitha, Program manager, Gemini TV on December 4th 2014. She is one among a few successful women who started her career from scratch to the manger level in the media industry. Her presence in ICAT has unveiled the underlying prose cures involved to get in to Television industry. She has covered many important aspects of TV including economy, target audience, TRP ratings, and concept creation and pitching. Students were curious to learn the complex structure of program design and development for a channel with regards to target audience. Student have shared their personal opinion about the industry and cleared their confusion about certain related to local, national, international TV media . Thanks to Mrs. Anita and ICAT to provide this new insight about TV industry.

karthigai deepam @ ICAT

Kirigami Workshop

A workshop on “Kirigami” was conducted by “Kagitha sirpi”, Mr.J Ramesh at the ICAT Chennai campus on 03rd of December, 2014. The workshop was attended by around 45 first and second year UG students of 3D, VFX, Media Technology, Fashion, and Interior Design departments and M.Sc. Multimedia students. The core aim of the workshop was to make the students understand the art of Kirigami, which is a paper art of creating different designs by cutting multi-folded papers.

In the workshop, the different forms of Kirigami was demonstrated by creating paper art designs like a star, flower, snowflake, hanging decorative items, hanging decorative items with characters like birds, people and even Japanese home decorative items. Finally, an activity was given to the students to create their own design by using the Kirigami art. The students were very enthusiastic about the same and came up with exotic designs that impressed Mr.Ramesh.

The workshop enabled students to learn different ways of folding and cutting to create beautiful designs, which can be used later for any kind of festival or celebrations and even in printing patterns in clothes.

Overall, the students enjoyed the whole learning experience at this workshop and were overwhelmed about the exposure to a new form of designing.

Film Making Workshop by Vasanth Dev

Swachh Bharath @ Hydreabad

The students of ICAT, Hyderabad took a step towards our beloved Prime Minister, Mr. Naredra Modi's call for Swachh Bharat. On 15 November, 2014 (Saturday), a 40 member students’ team of ICAT, Hyderabad visited the Government hospital at Hyderabad, which was filled with garbage and bio- wastage. The students enthusiastically participated in the event of cleaning the surroundings. They spent around 5 hours to completely remove the plastics, scattered rocks, broken glasses and other bio waste.

The students seem to be unstoppable when it comes to reacting to social causes like Swachh Bharat. A great applause to the ICAT students who have always been actively participating in meaningful activities like blood donation, AIDS awareness and now Swachh Bharat, besides their tight academic schedule.

Outdoor Live Sketching

Outdoor live sketching is one of the most effective art practices for those who want to step up their sketching skills to the next level. ICAT knows the value of this practice and has always guided its students towards the most effective learning experience.

On 13 November, 2014, the students of ICAT Hyderabad visited Golconda tombs to explore their skills in Outdoor sketching. Around 15 students from Visual Effects, Game Design, and 3D Animation departments participated in the day-long session, as part of their Visualization Study module. One of the experienced faculties of the Art department guided the students to showcase their best skills in capturing the beauty of the Golconda tombs. The students sketched amazing drawings of the monuments through their artistic sense and excellent eye for detailings. Some students spend hours on closely observing the design pattern of the Nizam’s architecture on the tombs and then recreated the same in an even more beautiful manner.

Nuke Seminar @ ICAT Hyderabad

Nuke Studio and Nuke 9 collaboratively arranged a seminar on “Innovations of Nuke Software” on 12th of November, 2014. The seminar was conducted at Moksha Benq, Jublee hills, Hyderabad. Over 40 students from different disciplines of ICAT, Hyderabad attended the seminar to keep abreast of the technology.

The seminar was held by Mr. Martin Mayor, Creative Specialist of ‘The Foundry’. The goal of the seminar was to detail the advancing technologies in Nuke. Mr. Martin has explained about the work flow of Nuke in some of the most successful and award-winning movies like Gravity and Guardians of the Galaxy.

In this seminar, Students were educated about Compositing and techniques to overcome the problems in its work flow. Students were much excited to attend this seminar, which went on for 3 hours (from 6.30pm to 9.30pm). One of the experienced faculties of VFX department guided the students by relating the information taught in the seminar with their modules and career.

Poster Designing Competition

Fresher’s Party @ ICAT, Chennai

The students of ICAT, Chennai were very enthusiastic on 7th, November, 2014, to welcome their junior counterparts to the campus. With the campus full of creative minds, no wonder there was exciting events to welcome the freshers and to break the ice between the seniors and juniors. The event started off with a warm welcome to the pretty faces by Ms. Anna Mary Sojan, Second Year Graphic Design student. It was followed by various events including Ramp Walk, Group Singing, Solo Singing, Group Dance, Mono Act, Adzap and Drums playing by students of different departments. The Ramp walk & the group dance by the Fashion & Interior girls was a highlight of this show. The seniors also encouraged the juniors to come up to the stage and show their talents. The 3 hours event came to an end with Vote of Thanks.

The freshers were very happy about the gracious welcome they received from their seniors. They found the event as an opportunity to understand the environment and the people around them, which helped them easily accustom to the place. Also, the students who participated in the events were happy about receiving recognition on the very first day.

Creativity-2014

Workshop on Typography @ ICAT Bangalore Campus

Prof Vinay Saynekar of Sir JJ Institute of Applied Art,Mumbai conducted a 3 day workshop on Typography at the ICAT Bangalore campus from 27 th to 29 th October 2014.
Students of Level 4,5 and PG Advertising participated in the workshop where they learnt the finer aspects and nuances of using typography for design.

Prof Saynekar conducted various interesting exercises in typography such as combining text and Image, font design inspired by objects around us, typographical reaction to a logo etc which the students enjoyed working on.

Prof Saynekar also showed his own and his students creative work in the area of Typography and Font Design.

The workshop was an enriching experience for the students and staff at ICAT.

 

Halloween Celebrations at ICAT, Chennai

We at ICAT, Chennai celebrated the day of the dead aka Halloween on 31 October, 2014. We conducted a Body Art competition for with the UG and PG students from of Advertising, Media Technologies, and Multimedia participating. About 15 teams comprising of 50 students in total participated in the competition. The event was a huge success with the students participating with great enthusiasm. The students did extensive research before painting to transform their friends into zombies, ghosts, and ghouls. Through their 2 hours work, the students presented their “works of horror” in true character.

Mr. Murlidharan Alagar was the Chief Guest for this event. He is a Software Architect Engineer by profession and recently made his passion – Art, his fulltime career. He is also the founder of the famed, “Chennai Weekend Artists” and “Chennai Weekend Clickers” groups. He is an Artist and Photographer par excellence. Mr. Murlidharan went through the body arts designed by the participants and was very impressed by the concepts, innovation, and effort put in by the students. The students presented their “works of horror” in true character.

He awarded the 1st place went to a team from the M.Sc. Multimedia department for their painting of a ghoul with big mouth, and the 2nd place was awarded went to a team from the M.Sc. Media Technologies department who had painted a thirsty Dracula. The entire event was conceived and organized by the students of the P.G. Diploma Advertising department. Overall, the event was a great success with enthusiastic participation, hard work and creative designs from the students.

Swach Bharath Game Jam Competition

Halloween Celebrations @ ICAT, Bangalore

Media Technology, M.Sc. and PG MMT students in Bangalore celebrated the Halloween day on 31 October, 2014, by conducting Face Painting competition based on the theme, “Zombie's”. The function started at around 9:00 a.m. All the students decorated their classes till 11:00 a.m. Simultaneously, the Face Painting competition was also held. TheThey are 36 students students who participated in the competition were divided into groups of three people. The competition came to an end at around 3:00 p.m. Then, Ms.Varsh , Academic Head, ICAT Bangalore went through each work and judged the winners. From M.Sc department were selected eshita is the winner & devendra is the runner and from M.Sc department were selected lopamudhra is the winner & shrey is the runner, prize not given but decided to provide in any upcoming occasion winners . The event was windup with a photo session. Overall, faculties and students had a great day.

Blood Donation Camp @ bangalore

Photography Exhibition @ ICAT Hyderabad

ICAT Students of Hyderabad showcased their Photography talent in a Photography exhibition conducted on 16th to 17th of October. It took nearly 4 hours for the students to arrange photographs in their dedicated stalls. The event was inaugurated by Mr. Varunan, RAH of ICAT Hyderabad. Overall 72 photographs with very interesting themes were exhibited by all VFX and MMT students. Students have utilized this exhibition to showcase their knowledge in concepts of photography including depth of field, Illusion, visual storytelling, culture and nature. People including professional photographers, parents and students visited the exhibition and gave their valuable feedback. Students had an opportunity to discuss their view and learn the psychology of their audience. ICAT is planning to arrange more exhibitions like this to demonstrate the students’ talents and skills.

Fresher's Party @ ICAT Hyderabad

Where we were born and where we brought up? And here we are, under the shadows of ICAT tree. Lets us wipe out the boundaries between us and show respect to each others. No senior or no junior. Let us decide to be friends for ever in the presence of our beloved faculty members.

Newly joined students of the ICAT Hyderabad have received a warm welcome from their counterparts on October 20th (Monday).The Fresher’s day party started at 3:00 PM and went up to 9.00pm with delicious dinner in the college. Second & Final year Students of all disciplines took up the responsibility of organizing the event including arranging facilities. Decorations and the hosting the show. The venue was shaken with roof breaking performances and fun filled environment. The shatters of the broken ice disappeared with shaking hands, friendly gestures and smiles across faces among all students. They made sure that the event went smoothly with our any issues with all the above activities. Even the faculty members added some more colors the celebration by their lovely performances. The event was a rejuvenating experience for all and ICAT will make sure the harmony among students will remain forever. We wish all the best.

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Convocation for the 2013 Batch @ ICAT, Bangalore

The convocation ceremony for the 2013 passed out students was held at ICAT, Bangalore campus on 19, September, 2014. During the ceremony, around 70 students from various UG and PG programs including 3D Animation, VFX and Gaming were awarded their degree certificates.

The Chief Guest for the day was Mr. Pratap Thumboochetty, Founder, Director & Creative Head of Incite Interact. The ceremony was also honoured with the presence of Deepa K, Manager Finance & Admin, Nancy Nathan, HR and Ms. Varsha Shelar, Regional Academic Officer, ICAT Bangalore.

The evening kicked off with the Lighting of Lamp by Mr. Pratap Thumboochetty and Ms. Varsha Shelar followed by an invocation song by Ms. Shantala, faculty of multimedia department. Our Regional Academic Head, Ms. Varsha Shelar then gave a brief overview about the previous academic year. Then was an inspiring speech from our chief guest, who elaborated on the importance of graduation as well as the importance of the ability to adapt to the various real world situations and the opportunities as and when they come. He quoted several examples for the same from his own life.

Then came our most awaited Certificate distribution. Mr. Pratap gave away the degree certificates to all our students amidst a roar of happiness and feel of achievement from our students. It was when a feeling of pride was seen on the faces of our students and their parents.

After the distribution of degree certificates, two of our ex-students, Avita Roche and M.V.Krishnan delivered their graduation speech on behalf of their fellow students. Both of them talked about how each concept learned at ICAT is now helping them in their field of work and expressed thier hearty thanks to the faculties and ICAT for all the support rendered. Then, all the students vowed a graduation pledge, which made them realize the importance of using thier knowledge and skills in the right way with a social responsibility.

Finally, Ms. Neha, Faculty of 3D Game department delivered the vote of thanks. The guests of the day, our ex-students and parents were treated with tea and snacks.

Konjam Nadinga Boss Shoot @ ICAT, Chennai

On 22 September, 2014, a crew from Sun TV visited ICAT, Chennai to shoot an episode of the Konjam Nadinga Boss show. This show is a comedy show, in which the participants will be asked to enact a famous movie dialogue. The way the participants enact the dialogues will be criticized with famous comedy dialogues, which makes the show more funny and enjoyable. In this particular episode shot at ICAT, our students revealed their best acting skills by delivering the dialogues in the most fun-filled way. The students enjoyed the 4 hour shoot with the Sun TV Crew members and the Anchor of the show, Mr. Aadhavan.

The show will be telecasted in Sun TV on 5 October, 2014, at 1.30 p.m.

Game-Jam Titans-2014

Onam Celebrations @ ICAT, Bangalore

The students and staff of ICAT, Bangalore celebrated the auspicious festival of Onam at the college on 9th of September, 2014.

As part of the celebrations, the students tried to bring out the best of Kerala's culture and tradition by intricately participating in the Pookalam (floral Rangoli) competition held at the college. The students and staff performed the traditional dance, 'Thiruvathirakali' and boat race song 'Vanjipaattu', spreading the flavour of Kerala in the entire campus.

Other activities like, 'Ethnic King & Queen', ‘Tug of War’, and ‘Sundharik Pott Kuthal’ were the highlights of this event. The program concluded with an exclusive Onam feast for the students, which served 'Onapayasam' and snack packs. The celebration aligned with the college's constant effort of connecting its diverse student community, and creating a homely environment for all its students. It was a day when the students made an impact on others with their stunning looks that was hidden in their boring uniform. This day was the only day when most of the people in college return to the Kerala tradition — girls were wearing ethic dresses to become typical ethnic ladies and boys were at their best in the traditional attires. Overall, the Onam celebration was a grand success with the cooperation of the students, and the teaching and non-teaching staff of ICAT family.

Onam and Teachers’ Day Celebration @ ICAT Chennai

The students and staff of ICAT Design and Media College, Chennai, celebrated Onam and Teachers’ Day with great festivity and fervour on the 5th of September, 2014. The celebrations began with the lighting of lamps by the staff. The lamps were set in beautifully carved fruits and vegetables, done by the students. This was followed by a fun ‘introduction’ of each faculty member, as perceived by the students. The students sang songs and danced to the latest tunes with great gusto. The students and staff participated in fun games that invoked many laughs. Most of the students and the staff were dressed in Kerala’s traditional wear, in white and gold. Overall, it was a great morning of fun, festivity, and food