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Toon Club: a rewarding roller coaster ride
What an amazing roller coaster ride this has been!
In 2003 we experimented with a tentative idea - Toon Club, the first in India to do animation workshops with kids.
Little did we know back then that we’ll come this far and bag 28 International awards in a span of 16 years. This year, we've bagged 6 International awards of those, 5 ...
Indian kids on the global animation map… And how!
Here's a news that you may not have heard before. 11 out of 22 officially selected films ‘made by children’ at a prestigious Animasyros International Film Festival, GREECE are created by our students at Toon Club!
Yes! 50% of the films screening at this festival belong our tiny school of tiny tooners. Now, isn’t that the coolest thing to happen? Way ...
Best summer vacation workshop to creatively engage children
With the soaring temperatures and the long summer vacation ahead, most parents in Mumbai find it difficult to keep children constructively occupied and yet away from their electronic gadgets and devices. Children are addicted to their phones, play stations, iPads and Television. Gone are the days where children read, played board games or kept themselves busy creating art and craft ...
How is Animation Education beneficial to children?
Ever wondered how animation education could be beneficial to children?
As per an Analysis of Comprehension of Animation Logic in Young Children by Wendy Jackson Hall (Animation Artist/Educator, Seattle. Read more about her here) presented at the 2002 Society for Animation Studies Conference, Glendale, CA
Creative Writing and Language skills are engaged while writing the script. Principles of storytelling, story structure, ...
Selections & Pre-selections – Fingers crossed!
This past week has been so eventful, with ONLY exciting News and Awards coming our way.
Here are a few more to add to the list-
After winning a FICCI BAF Award last week, our cutout animation film ANIMAL ABUSE has made it to INDIAN PANAROMA section of International Children's Film Festival, Lucknow 2019 http://www.cmsfilms.org/icff/ and Corti a Ponte, Ponte San Nicolò, ...
Our Third FICCI BAF Award is our 21st Award!
Our students have won their 3rd FICCI BAF award! yayyyyyy:)
All 3 FICCI BAFs have been won by our students at Ecole Mondiale World School.
We won our first FICCI BAF in 2013 for the film created by 5th Grade students. It was on Child Rights 'CHILDREN OF THE WORLD' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qntbhnmg2x4. This hand-drawn animation film then went on the win the BLUE ...
Opening of the CHILDREN’S MUSEUM at CSMVS
CSMVS
Extremely excited and looking forward to the Opening of the CHILDREN's MUSEUM on 29th March 2019 at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (Prince of Wales Museum)
Toon Club was involved in training the children in cut-out animation and helping them to create an animation film for the launch of the Children's Museum. This is one of the best projects we've ...
Oberoi International School’s Art Exhibition MOMENTUM
The inauguration ceremony of the annual Art Exhibition 'MOMENTUM' by my Diploma Program (DP or Grade 12) students (Visual Arts Class of 2019) at Oberoi International School was completely out of the box!
They screened their Rotoscopy Animation film created under Toon Club guidance just after the ceremonious lighting of the candle and before the unveiling of their fascinating art creations.
Each ...
Our long-standing relationships with Schools
We at Toon Club, have had long-lasting relationships with several schools. We often wonder why these bonds have been so strong. Perhaps the reason for this firm association has been our mutual appreciation for high standards and quality in art education, exchange of ideas and learnings, and a constant desire for growth in our own respective areas of work.
The schools ...
A Cut-out Animation Workshop at Prince of Wales Museum
An Exciting Phase in the life of Toon Club.
We have just bagged our dream project with Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (Prince of Wales Museum).
The Museum is launching Mumbai City’s FIRST Children’s Museum – For the Children, By the Children. Which means children curate the exhibits and are involved in every possible way.
For this purpose, the Museum conducted a few ...