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Feature: Nepal brand animated cartoon movies in the offingKATHMANDU, Feb 17, 2010 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- By Binju Sitaula The days are not so far when animation movies fanatic all around the world will be watching Nepali brand of animated cartoon movies in their television sets via various international cartoon channels. Incessant Rain Animation Studios, one and only one animation studio in Nepal working for international market is set to pop-up with a "Nepal Brand" animation movie within 18 months. "Our ultimate goal is to promote a 'Nepal Brand' in an international arena of animation films using our own Nepali characters and elements to attract the wide viewers," said Kiran Joshi, Chief Executive Officer of Incessant Rain. Joshi who worked for 17 years in Walt Disney Animation Studio as a head of Digital Production and Visual Effects Supervisor said, "If we bring some peculiar folk-stories and characters of Nepal in the form of 3D animation, our stories will hit the international market." Started with an animation on South Asian context, applying it over Disney's characters Donald Duck and Micky Mouse, Incessant Rain is currently working with dozen of international and national clients. Some of its clients include Disney Studios USA, Colombia Pictures, Sony Pictures, Zoic Studios, Nickelodeon, Fox TV network, CBS TV Network, ABC TV network, Sun Animatics, Thompsons, Pipsqueak Films, Ace Development Bank, Vibor Bikas Bank, United Nations World Food Program, Mercantile Communications, Raj Vidya Kendra, among others. Joshi, who had given his effort in internationally renowned cartoon movies like Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, wants to come up with peculiar characters of his own country like Buddha, Yeti, One-horn Rhino, Mt. Everest and many more. In line with promoting Nepal Brand,, Incessant Rain recently has animated a toon advertisement characterizing One-horn Rhino for Ace Development Bank and characterizing Yeti in UN World Food Program. "Now we are focusing on creating our own animation feature movie like Jungle Book of Rudyard Kipling, for this we are in phase of story development and script writing," Joshi told Xinhua on Wednesday. "Nepali epic Muna Madan can be a great love story to cater viewers world-wide," he added. However, he outlined challenges ahead of finding artists, logistics at the time of power outage. Started in the year 2008 with only 18 animators or artists, Incessant Rain now employ 85 artists in various departments such as concept, storyboarding, designs, layout, modeling, texturing, animation, lighting, special effects, post production and visual effects. |