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Sony Pictures Image Works and Shasun Jain College for Women Join Hands

Sony Pictures Image Works and Shasun Jain College for Women Join Hands Yet Again

Sony Pictures Image Works and Shasun Jain College for women has had strong industry-institution collaboration since the inception of the college~

Chennai, 12th June 2013: Sony Imageworks, one of the premier visual effects studio in the world, extended their relation with Shasun Jain College for Women today through gifting 20 Professional Designing Workstation for the setup of a specialized Graphic Laboratory in college. Mr Joe Gareri, Director, Sony Imageworks India handed over the systems to the college.

Students of Shasun Jain College have earlier worked with Sony Imageworks in the projects such as Spiderman 3, The Amazing Spiderman, Alice in Wonderland, I am Legend, Hancock and OZ The Greatest and The Powerful

These professional designing computers will be used by the Shasun Colleges School of Media and Communication. The computers are installed with state of the art animation softwares such as Adobe, AutoDesk 3DS Max, VectorDesigner, Nuke, Silhouette and Ability Photopaint which are used in the animation industry.

Acknowledging this gesture from Sony Pictures Image Works, Dr B Poorna, Principal, Shasun Jain College for Women, said Shasun Colleges School of Media and Communication is arguably Chennai’s most advanced institute, in terms of technology and equipments. This addition has added to the hands-on industry expertise which we impart to our students. We are extremely honoured and thankful to Sony Pictures Image Works.”
Mr. Gareri, while distributing the professional designing computers said, “Animation is a booming field both India and abroad. I wish the students of the college good luck and prosperity in their professional careers.”

The school currently runs a 3-Year Undergraduate Program based on Art and Visual Communications, in line with the curriculum prescribed by University of Madras. The course is multi-dimensional and trains student in Animation, Photography, Film Making, Film Editing, Drawing, Graphic Designing, Print Technologies and Media Studies. As diversified as it could be, at the end of the course, a student has an opportunity to create a career in any of these subjects.

About Shasun Jain College for Women:
Shri Shankarlal Sundarbai Shasun Jain College for Women was established in 2005 under the auspices of Sri S S Jain Educational Society. The college offers 8 UG courses and 1 PG course in Shift 1 and 7 UG courses and 1 PG Diploma course in Shift 2. At present, it functions with student strength of more than 3000 and more than 100 faculty members. The institution is ISO 9001:2008 certified and accredited with grade from National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC).


About Sony Pictures Image Works:

Sony Pictures Image works is the Academy Award winning visual effects and animation unit of Sony Pictures Digital Productions known for live action visual effects and dynamic creature and character animation, all-CG animation, and stereoscopic 3D imagery. The company, with facilities in Culver City, CA, Vancouver, B.C. and Chennai, India, is currently in production on THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2, the hybrid live action/animated film THE SMURFS 2 and the animated feature CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2. For further information, please visit: http://www.imageworks.com/

17.07.2013. 15:10