The Animation and Graphic Lab engages in training the students in 2D Graphics, 3D Animation, Web Designing, VFX and Game Designing Work station computer system for students in 1:1 ratio 2D and 3D Animation lab with sophisticated and modern equipments Industry related original software
Students have access to the best quality clay. They are taught to make Live Models, mould and Casting too.
The Edit Suite is a room usually consist of workstations with one or two displays consisting Video editing software and hardware. The Edit suite in the department consists of workstation with Final Cut Pro and Avid Edit software for Video Editing. Dubbing studio is a specialized facility for sound recording, mixing and audio production of instrumental or vocal musical performances, spoken words. It consists of a ‘Live Room’ attached with isolated ‘booth’ equipped with Mics, and 12 Channel Audio Mixer, controlled by the Sound Engineer with Pro Tools software in the control room.
This incorporates a green screen studio, a back porch for engaging, a private green room, and control room, Sound Suite. Full versatile multi-camera HD video and sound generation vehicle for "live nourish" to vast screen projection which is ideal for shows.
iMAC Provides students with a plethora of tools for Animation. High end systems for Content Development, Cinematography and Video Editing are associated with this laboratory.
Equipped with integrated professional lighting system, semi-oval type backdrop for chroma, patch bay for video and audio connectors for microphones and latest video cameras.
We proudly say that the Department of Viscom and Animation collaborated with Asia University, Taiwan for the first time in the month of July 8th to 26th 2019 as Summer Internship Programme for the Designing course attended by four of our students which was the great benefit for them.
A MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING was executed on 7th day of April 2022 between Dr. M.G.R. EDUCATIONAL AND RESEARCH and LOYOLA COLLEGE FOR ARTS AND SCIENCE. [See Details...]
Acting Session On 18-10-2019 Acting Session was conducted by Jaya Rao Theatre lab, Vadapalani. On 06-08-2018 Acting Session was conducted by Shiva Velan and Team (Theatre Artists) On 14.07.2017 Acting Session was conducted by Vaiyapuri and Sindhu Direction On 30.08.2019 A Seminar presented by renowned Film Director Mr. Sasi Kumar On 17.10.2018 A Guest Lecture on Direction by Mr. Rama Krishnan On 15.09.2017 Script Writing Session by Ms. Sasikala Cinematography 10.08.2018 - A Technical Talk on Cinematography byMr. K.V.Rajan 16.08.2017- A Technical Talk on Cinematography byMr. Antony 10.02.2017- A Technical Talk on Cinematography byMr. Karthick Raja
16.10.2019- 20.10.2019: Harmony - International Week of Peace - Ad Campaign 06.09.2019- A Guest Lecture on Advertising and Promotion by Mr. Arun Chidambaram( A Leading Ad Film Maker) 16.09.2018 : Guest lecture on Ad Campaign- Mr. Immanuel Robinson
21.03.2019- A Seminar On Television Production byMr.Bharath Simhan 09.10.2018 - A Technical Talk on TV serials by Mr. Kamal (Serial Artist) 07.02.2017 - A Technical Talk on Televison Production by Mr. Radha Krishnan
30.08.2019: REEL 2K19, A Intra Departmental Short Film and Photography Competition 30.08.2018- 31.08.2018 : AMMARA- THE ANTERO,An Inter Collegiate Cultural Fest | Chief Guest : Mr. Sakthi (Actor) 30.08.2017 - 31.08.2017 : AMMARA- THE RETRO,An Inter Collegiate Cultural Fest | Chief Guest: S.P. Muthuraman ( Film Director) 30.08.2016 - 31.08.2016 : AMMARA,An Inter Collegiate Cultural Fest | Chief Guest: Karthick Raja
09.10.2018 - A Technical Talk on Video Editing by Bharath Simhan 10.09.2017 - A Technical Talk on VFX by Mr. Chinna Raja 23.09.2016 - A Technical Talk on VFX by Mr. Raju
17.10.2019 - Seminar on Scope of Animation in Current Era by Mr. Dhanasekar 29.09.2018- A Seminar on After Effects by Mr. Muthu Kumar 11.10.2017 - A Technical Talk on Animation by Samuel Elson ( VFX Supervisor) 18.03.2016 - A Seminar on Animation by Mr. Raju ( VFX Artist)
6.07.2019 - Live Sketching and Monument Design Ideas at Mahabalipuram 30.01.2019 :Ezhil Vannam- An Intra DepartmentalArt Exhibition 06.07.2018 : An Intra CollegeFace Painting Competition on the day of International Emoji Day 20.07.2017: An International Forest Preservation Week "Vana Utsav" -Inter Departemental ArtCompetition
Alumni Interaction - Dec '24 On 17/12/2024, the Department of Visual Communication & Animation had the distinct privilege of hosting one of its distinguished alumni, Mr.Sheik A.K, a renowned photographer and industry expert, who returned to campus to engage with our current students.
Tree Planting We the department of Viscom & Animation organized a Tree planting in DAYA SADAN CHILDREN'S TOWN through our VAA THOZHA Professional society, 7/7/23 at 2:30 pm. [Read More...] Club's Inauguration Our Department's club was inaugurated and held on 04/07/2023. This ceremony was inaugurated by Mr. Immanuel Robinson, Director , Alpha Advertising &Films. There are five clubs in our department in which students exhibit their talents and participate actively. They are Alumni club, Creozone association, Camaron photography club , Designo hub and Vaa Thozha foundation. [Read More...]
Nandri '22 Gratitude Day is celebrated annually on the 21st September. The celebration of Gratitude Day allows both individual citizens and organisations within wider society to celebrate the broad meaning of gratitude in a variety of ways. On this occasion we the department of Viscom & Animation planned to conduct a Public Relation campaign on Grattitude Day commencing week as NANDRI -22’ [Read More...]
National Conference The Department of Viscom and Animation hosted their first National Conference titled Innovations in ICT and Media Communications. [Read More...]
𝐈𝐂𝐎𝐍 - Premiere League We the Department of Viscom and Animation, Dr MGR ERI. on the occasion of International Mind Body Wellness Day, takes up the pride and elated to Conduct "ICON Premiere League", a tournament initiated for a cause on 6/01/2024 at GOAT, Arena, Valasaravakkam , Chennai. [Read More...] 𝐈𝐂𝐎𝐍 - 𝐀𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐅𝐢𝐥𝐦, 𝐕𝐅𝐗 & 𝐀𝐧𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑 We the department of Viscom and Animation celebrated seven days event on "Icon- An international summit on Animation , Film and VFX " [Read More...] Film Screening Competition This film screening competition was judged by the popular actor Mr.PandiyaRajan and around 10 films were screened. He appreciated the students on seeing them as a good director. [Read More...] Art Competition and Exhibition Department of Visual Communication and Animation conducted an Art Competition and Exhibition for all the students of the Dr. MGR University on 9th March 2022. The art competition was themed in "PengalinVetripaathai,” and the competition was inaugurated and judged by the Chief guest Ms.Kiruba and the Women Artist / Professor Ms.Niraimathi.[Read More...]
International Russian Film Festival The International Russian Film Festival is an international festival of works of documentary and cinema in Russian, showing and interpreting events, phenomena, traditions of the Russian world, features of the Russian soul and Russian character. Indian Film maker Mr.Venkatesan and Indian Cinematographer M.Prabhu delivered a thought provoking and remarkable session with our students. [Read More...]
Guest Lecture on Time Management Dr.J.Sridevi, Dean – Centre for professional excellence, Dr. M.G.R. Educational & Research Institute presented a wonderful session of making the utmost use of our time in our rapidly advancing world. [Read More...] Guest Lecture on VFX Our Department of Visual Communication and Animation, Organized a Guest Lecture programme on Visual Effects on Movies on 10/10/23 in Anna Block, Mini Seminar Hall. Mr. Vincent Ashok Kumar is a VFX Compositor in UNIFI Media and also Creative Head of Arena Animation. He gave an excellent lecture on VFX. [Read More...]
One day field trip to Mahabalipuram We the department of Viscom & Animation organized a seminar on the topic " Cinematic Chronicles" by director Mr. SP Muthuraman who directed 72 Films and he was one of the most successful commercial Film Directors in the Tamil Cinema. This seminar was conducted on 12/04/2024. [Read More...]
Seminar on Cinematic Chronicles We the department of Viscom & Animation organized a seminar on the topic " Cinematic Chronicles" by director Mr. SP Muthuraman who directed 72 Films and he was one of the most successful commercial Film Directors in the Tamil Cinema. This seminar was conducted on 12/04/2024. [Read More...] Seminar on Storyboarding We the department of Viscom & Animation organized a session on the "STORYBOARDING" to stimulate the students to get motivated and inspired to be a good Storyboarding creator. [Read More...] Seminar on PHOTOGRAPHY The department of Visual Communication and Animation organized a Seminar on "Photography” to discover what we really want to say while clicking the camera. Pertaining to this Guest speaker Mr.L.Ramachandran, International photographer was invited on 28/04/2023. [Read More...] Seminar on ADVERTISEMENT PHOTOGRAPHY The department of Visual Communication and Animation organized a Seminar on the "Advertisement Photography” to discover what we really want to say while clicking the camera. Pertaining to this Guest speaker Mr.Akilesh Kathamuthu, renowned Cinematographer was invited on 24/03/2023. [Read More...] Seminar on TELEVISION PRODUCTION Department of Viscom & Animation organized a seminar on the "Television Production” to make the students practically aware of behind the small screen. For this, we invited Mr.Surendar V.R, Senior Executive Producer/Director, VIJAY TELEVISION on 17th February 2023 at 11am in our RA block. [Read More...] Seminar on DOCUMENTARY FILM MAKING Department of Viscom & Animation organized One-day Seminar on "DOCUMENTARY FILM MAKING" on 15.2.2023 at RA Block Conference Hall. The session was handled by Dr. Terada Yoshitaka, Professor Emeritus at the National Museum of Ethnology, Minpaku, Japan. [Read More...] Seminar on Drawing and Featuring Department of Visual Communication and Animation organized a Seminar on the "Drawing and Featuring” to discover what we really want to say while drawing. Pertaining to this we invited Guest speaker Mr.Saravana Raghavan, Asst Professor & Head , Dept of Visual Communication, St.Peter’s Institute of Higher Education and Research on 16/11/2022. [Read More...] Seminar on CINEMATOGRAPHY Department of Viscom & Animation organized a seminar on the "Cinematography” to make the students technically strong behind the big screen. [Read More...] Seminar on Script Writing The department of Visual communication & Animation organized a seminar on the Scriptwriting for the passionate students to improve their skills on it. Our Guest speaker Mr.R.D.Balaji , Actor, Director F-stop solutions was invited to deliver his unscrupulous knowledge towards the scriptwriting. [Read More...] Seminar Mr. Pandiyarajan, the noted Director and Actor shared his experience with the students of Digital film technology.[Read More...]
Student Induction Program- VIBRANCE'23 Department of Visual Communication & Animation, conducted the freshers inauguration and induction program "VIBRANCE" for three days between September 12th to 14th 2023. [Read More...] Student Induction Program- VIBRANCE'22 Department of Visual Communication & Animation, conducted the induction program for two days on the title " Deeksharambh- Vibrance” on 20th & 21st of December 2022.Each day, five sessions were conducted with five eminent speakers from various fields of the media.[Read More...]
Career Guidance Programme The second year students of Viscom & Animation department had the opportunity to partake in a Career Guidance Programme on "Opportunities in the Field of Media Industry” held on 12.10.2023. [Read More...] Workshop on VIDEO EDITING The department of Visual Communication and Animation organized a workshop on the "Video Editing” to discover what we really want to say to the mass audience. Pertaining to this the Guest speaker Mr.Biju.V.Donbosco, renowned Film Editor was invited on 24/04/2023. [Read More...]
World Cancer Day On the World Cancer Day (2/2/2024), We the Department of Viscom & Animation at Dr. MGR Educational & Research Institute, Chennai, teamed up with the UUU Foundation and Hair donation drive organized a Cancer Awareness programme. [Read More...] Motivational Talk We the department of Viscom & Animation organized a Motivational session on the topic "Stone to Diamond" for the two days on 14th and 15th December 2023. It was a great honor to have had the gravitasmic presence of Mr. Ajay Rathinam (Actor & Speaker) to bless our students with his immense hopeful & Optimistic personality. [Read More...] COVID Fund program Music Feast, a COVID Fund program conducted by the Department of Viscom and Animation on 15th July 2021which has been sponsored by Shanthi planners and Sri boomika Granites. [Read More...] COVID Fund program Music Feast, a COVID Fund program conducted by the Department of Viscom and Animation on 15th July 2021which has been sponsored by Shanthi planners and Sri boomika Granites. [Read More...]
S.No. Name of the Student Passed out Year Name of the Company Incubated 1 Mr. Sakthivelan 2019 Assistant Choreographer- Freelance 2 Mr. Praveen Kumar K 2019 Freelance Photographer 3 Mr. Senthil Kumar 2019 Freelance Photographer 4 Mr. Tamil Mani 2019 Assistant Cinematographer 5 Mr. Naveen 2018 VFX Artist 6 Mr. Santhosh 2018 Event Management 7 Mr. Sathish 2018 Assistant Cameraman 8 Mr. Divyank 2018 Cinematographer 9 Mr. Abiraj 2018 Assistant Cameraman 10 Mr. Sivashankar 2018 Assistant Director 11 Mr. Raja Durai 2018 Own Production House 12 Mr. Mano 2018 3d Artist 13 Mr. Naveen 2018 VFX Artist 14 Mr. Santhosh 2018 Event Management 15 Mr. Sathish 2018 Assistant Cameraman 16 Mr. Muthuraj 2017 Freelancer 17 Mr. Subba Roa 2017 Freelancer 18 Mr. Suresh raj 2017 Freelancer 19 Mr. Prithivi 2017 Entrepreneur
S.No. Name of the Student Passed out Year Name of the Institute 1 Mr. Shankar Dhayal 2019 Masters in Jackson Ville, USA
S.No. Name of the Student Passed out Year Name of the Company 1 Mr. Daniyel 2019 Vijay Network - Endemol Shine Pvt Ltd./ Mercury Productions 2 Mr. Rajesh 2019 Madarasi - Youtube Channel 3 Mr. Naveen Kumar 2019 Sun Network 4 Mr. Cecil Hansraj Bastian 2019 Orgin Learning Solutions 5 Ms. Tasleem Begum 2019 Orgin Learning Solutions 6 Mr. Praveen Kumar R 2019 Amazon 7 Mr. Ajeeth Kumar 2019 Dr. M.G.R. Educational And Research Institute 8 Mr. Bhuvaneshwar 2019 Dr. M.G.R. Educational And Research Institute 9 Mr. Dinesh 2019 Dr. M.G.R. Educational And Research Institute 10 Mr. Arun 2018 Sun Network 11 Ms. Nancy 2018 Sun Network 12 Mr. Arun 2018 Kalaignar Televison Channel 13 Mr. Shiek Abdul Khadar 2018 Dr. M.G.R. Educational And Research Institute 14 Mr. Amaljith 2018 VFX Trainer- Arena Animations 15 Mr. Shafi Ahmed 2018 Maya Trainer- Arena Animations 16 Ms. Raiza 2017 Tv Serial Artist - Colours Tamil Network 17 Mr. Ponvignesh 2017 Orgin Learning Solutions 18 Mr. Nijandhan 2017 Orgin Learning Solutions 19 Ms.Hemalatha 2017 Orgin Learning Solutions 20 Mr. Komal Jain 2017 Orgin Learning Solutions 21 Mr. Vishnu 2017 Orgin Learning Solutions 22 Mr. Elson Durai 2017 Orgin Learning Solutions 23 Ms. Meena 2017 Orgin Learning Solutions 24 Mr. Premkumar 2017 Orgin Learning Solutions 25 Mr. Bharathi 2017 Orgin Learning Solutions 26 Mr. Ashok Kumar 2017 Orgin Learning Solutions 27 Mr. Deepak 2017 Orgin Learning Solutions 28 Mr. Marimuthu 2017 Alpha Soft Technologies 29 Mr. Vignesh 2017 ACURAY 30 Mr. Charles 2017 Bradman 31 Mr. Rakesh 2017 Bradman 32 Mr. Surya.P.T 2017 Amazon 33 Mr. Pranav 2017 Amazon 34 Mr. Vignesh.M 2017 Captain Network 35 Mr. Karthik.R 2017 I Solve 36 Mr. Danish 2017 Photo Fab 37 Mr. Pavithran 2017 Vijay Network 38 Ms. Kayal vizhi 2017 National Geographic Channel
