:: Welcome to Arena Animation ::

The Aptech edge
Aptech is a global learning company in multiple areas of education and with centres across five continents. A pioneer in IT and animation education, Aptech has trained over 4.5 million students over a span of 21 years.

Arena Animation is the animation and multimedia training business of Aptech. Arena has extensive courses, assists its students in placements and maintains high education standards.

Placements
Arena has its own Placements Cell that helps prepare its students for placement. It organises seminars, workshops, industry visits and regular in-house activities like group discussions, debates and mock interviews. Prominent experts and specialists from the industry are invited to speak at the seminars and workshops. Campus recruitment and job fairs are also arranged.

Some of the regular programmes include.....

Perspectives
These seminars bring together professionals from the animation community to share their knowledge, thoughts, views and experiences with Arena students. The most recent Perspectives seminar in Mumbai held at Ghatkopar in December 2007 was addressed by the gurus from the industry such as Mr. Yunus Bhukari of Artery Animation & FX, Mr. Indranil Malik from Crest Animation, and Vaibhav Studios’ founder and animator Mr. Vaibhav Kumaresh. Read more about the seminar.

TechWize
These are workshops by industry people on technology/ opportunities in the field of multimedia and animation such as on special effects, gaming, media and broadcasting, post-production, etc.

CareerWize
These are workshops to improve the students’ personal and interpersonal skills, e.g. effective presentation skills, resume building, facing a group discussion, facing job interviews, how to set and achieve goals, importance of creativity in your job, making a demo reel, etc.

Job fairs
From time to time, Arena students participate in job fairs. Various studios as well as other companies participate in these fairs and recruit professionals trained by Arena, straight from campus.
Arena students have been placed at over a thousand companies. Among these are blue-chip animation studios and entertainment companies like Prime Focus, Rhythm & Hues, Crest Animation Studios, EFX, UTV Toons, Toonz Animation, Nipuna Services, Prasad Studio, Colour Chips, Ramoji Film City, Green Gold Animation, DQ Entertainment, Paprikaas Animation Studios, Usha Kiron TV, Sony TV, Google India, NDTV, TOI, DD Sports, Discovery Channel, Divya Bhaskar, Asian Satellite Communications, ETV and Zee TV. Arena students have been placed as graphic designers, web designers, 2D/ 3D animators, AV editors, technical trainers, 3D modelers, compositors, visualisers, content developers and pre- and post-production executives.