Hi AYV Team,

I am Nandini. Venkatesh grade 10 from Christel House India, Bangalore.  This is my first experience working in stop motion animation. We had to first decide topics to start working on the project. So we choose ten topics and finally decided one topic that is stray dog. We also had to decide the characters. For stop motion animation there is no necessary of software. We chose this topic because this is a debatable one because there is no perfect solution for this and none have done a project on this. Its gonna be a challenging one for us. We faced some challenges such as, we had to carefully draw pictures, color them properly, cut them properly and so on. If suppose a slight mistake is made then we had to rework on it because when put on TV screen a huge mistake will be seen. The reflection of light while shooting pictures should carefully be done. One more thing we almost re-shot the pictures three times.

The main reason why we chose this is to spread awareness to people about the accidents and diseases caused by the stray dogs. Even though cupa organistion takes care of them not all can be taken care. So we put a question mark at the end to the audience for a solution. Its great being a part of stop motion animation team.i hope this awareness will bring some change.

thanks and regards,

Nandini. Venkatesh

We started a stop motion animation

There is a huge debate raging amongst the citizens of Bangalore – between the animal lovers and the others who feel that stray dogs are a menace to the city.

We started a stop motion animation  about stray dogs.

Recently the issue started with a 7 years old girl being mauled to death by a pack of street dogs near her house. A hue and cry was raised by many citizens who felt or have experienced the menace created by street dogs in Bangalore. The situation turned to worse when another 4 year old boy was mauled to death. The city corporation swung into action and ordered that stray dogs should be captured and culled.

A few section of the citizen, especially those who have been terrorized by the stray dogs before felt that this was the only way in which Bangalore could be freed from stray dogs. Another section felt that the culling of dogs was inhuman, since they also have the right to share the planet along with us.