Toonz Animation India, a new animation production studio and full-service
facility, will host "A Week with the Masters," which will bring the top
names in international animation pre-production together to discuss the
importance of story boarding, character design, and story development.
Among the guests will be keynote speaker Rob Coleman, Industrial Light &
Magic's Animation Supervisor on STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE;
producer-director-writer Derek Lamb; Ian Diamond of Cartoon Network;
Maurice Noble, art designer for many Warner Bros. classics; and Ishu Patel,
an Academy Award-nominee and multiple award-winning Indian animator who
currently serves as a professor at USC's School of Cinema/Television in the
division of animation and digital arts. The event takes place Monday,
November 1 - Friday, November 5 in Trivandrum, Kerala, India. For more
information visit www.toonzanimationindia.com.