| | 4 July 2018HIGHERReviewEditorialWalt Disney's The Jungle Book is a nostalgic story for many of us, especially for those who consider themselves as `The 90s Kids.' We grew up watching The Jungle Book animation series that was screened on our-own Doordarshan channel. We loved characters like Mowgli, Baloo, Bagheera and Akela, while Sherekhan and Tabaqui were our enemies. Couple of years ago, The Jungle Book reappeared on silver screen with spectacular visual effects and instantly connected with the Indian audience, collecting over Rs. 243 crore in India. While, the film went on to win the Oscar for Best Visual Effects in 2016, not many know that much of the exhaustively detailed animation for this live-action film was accomplished by the lesser-known heroes of the Moving Pictures Company's Bangalore office. Similarly, the spotless animation developed by Indian animators won Life of Pi an Oscar for the Best Visual Effects in 2013. Although, not Oscar winning movies, Shrek and How to Train your Dragon are couple of other animated movies that have outsourced a colossal amount of work to Indian animation and SFX studios and the list is growing exceptionally. Unfortunately, it seems like the glorified `Make in India' campaign has not addressed the animation industry effectively, as there has been no award-worthy original SFX or animation cinema from Indian production houses. The closest was Baahubali, which reportedly took 33 animation studios working on VFX post-production, with graphics and animation that took almost a year and a half to create and perfect. Animation in India has come a long way. Now, we do have easy availability of professional education offered by animation and multimedia institutes in the form of specially designed animation courses. However, investors in the sector need look beyond the mythological concepts such as Krishna or Hanuman for a storyline to make the VFX industry bigger and better. Following tried and tested formula will not encourage creative minds. If our educators can fine-tune our creative talents to think out-of-the-box and our investors are ready to put their money to make interesting animated characters, we can definitely rewrite the history with another homegrown Jungle Book. In this issue, we have identified `Top 10 Promising Animation and Design Institutes in India' that are unlocking the passion of young talents in the country. We hope our efforts will help the students with a creative bent. Enjoy Reading. Sarath ShyamManaging Editorsarath@thehighereducationreview.comIndian Animation, Scene #1: Oscar Winning Talents with Lack of Originality Vol 6 · Issue 6-2 · JULY 16 - 2018Publisher & Editor Alok ChaturvediManaging Editor Sarath Shyam Editorial Team Lakshmi G Raman Balakrishnan Riya Das Aveek Pal Choudhuri Editorial Queries Advertisement queries Office To Subscribe Visit www.thehighereducationreview.com/subscription or send email to subscription@thehighereducationreview.comCover price is Rs. 150 per issue.Printed and Published By Alok Chaturvedi on behalf of BizprintMedia Technologies Pvt Ltd and Printed at Precision Fototype Services at Sri Sabari Shopping Complex, 24 Residency Road Bangalore-560025 and Published At No. 124, 2nd Floor, Surya Chambers, Old Airport Road, Murigheshpalya, Bangalore-560017.Copyright © 2018 BizprintMedia Technologies Pvt Ltd, All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part of any text, photography or illustrations without written permission from the publisher is prohibited. The publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or illustrations. Views and opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the magazine and accordingly, no liability is assumed by the publisher.advertise@thehighereducationreview.comNo.124, 2nd Floor, South Block, Surya Chambers, Airport Main Road, Bangalore 560017 Tel: 080-46441103T: 080-46441192editor@thehighereducationreview.comCirculation Manager Magendran PerumalSales & Marketing GM Sales & Marketing Monisha RavinarayanGroup Art Director Ashok KumarVisualizers Vimalraj M Siva Sankar Suanya Mohana krishnanHigherEducationReviewHIGHERReviewAugustin Sunny NoelDeepa M
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