I Love Animation

Its a regular Friday Evening. I finished my work and the started doing the routine... facebook, orkut, youtube, etc. One of ma friends shared link of the new Ramayan animated movie trailer. I clicked on play and started watching it. I liked the trailer very much and knowing that it is in 3d too, I was all excited.

You know, I'm crazy about movies; especially the animated movies. I started thinking about how fascinated I used to be watching Cartoons for hours; right from the Jungle book, talespin, dungeons and dragons, little wizards until the Caption Planet, Swat Cats, Fantastic 4, Tom & Jerry, etc. Slowly, the animated world grew and lots of good animated movies started pouring in. I continued watching most of the animated movies too. some of my favs. include Ratatouile, wall-E, kung-fu panda, horton hears a who, Sword of the Stranger, Alladin, El-dorado, Atlantis - the lost world, Spirited Away, Appleseed Saga..Ex Machina ..... BREAKKKKK!!!!

Something stopped my chain of thoughts. Something was bothering me. I was not feeling good about something. I rewound my thoughts ... started thinking about all the cartoons and movies again... twice and thrice.... ahah! there it is. I got what was bothering me. All those Cartoons, animated movies I watched are concepts taken from different countries. ex: kung-fu panda (China), Ratatouile (France), Sword of the Stranger (Japan), Alladin (middle east), etc. WHAT ABOUT INDIA?

Do we have any animated movies at all? I told "YES" to myself and started to think how many are there and how many did I see. I remember seeing only two 1) HANUMAN 2)HANUMAN RETURNS. I then remember hearing about Roadside Romeo (India's first 3D movie), Bal Ganesh and the latest, Ramayan. And there stops the count. That's it? I hope you agree that for an animated movie lover, this count is very less.

I started thinking "why do we have very less animated movies, while we have very rich and varied culture and heritage?"; "in-fact how many of us even know that we do have some animated movies?".......I started feeling sad and discouraged. I started thinking about many other things. I then thought that I need to contribute something to the animated movie Industry of INDIA. How can I do that? I don't know anything about animated movie Industry. So, I started googling on "How Animated movies are made?" and found some results. I got this link of PIXAR's which talks about how animated movies are made http://www.pixar.com/howwedoit/index.html Its a good link with some good information.

After all these thoughts, I decided that I want to create a short animated movie and contribute it to the INDIAN Animated movie Industry. But, the first step to do it is "throw in some ideas and select one"....... So friends, I need all your help in gathering some good ideas on what can be a good subject/concept for short animated movie. And the subject/concept should be something about/from/on INDIA. Friends, please start thinking about this and throw me some ideas....

I'm all Excited to do something new, creative, intersting after a longggggggggggg time. Help me do this.......

With Love
Chanti