Toonz Animation India will team up with Disney India to host ‘Kahaani Masters,’ a national story-writing contest for kids to coincide with the animation house’s 15th anniversary.

It has already received 14,000 entries from the 4- to the 14-year-olds, according to P Jayakumar, Chief Executive Officer, Toonz.

The programme gives the young minds the opportunity to develop their story ideas to animation films to be aired on the Disney Channel in January.

Animation workshop It was a decade ago that the animation house had initiated its own Children’s Animation Workshop. “We have now got the opportunity to associate with Disney to take this idea on a national platform.”

A jury led by the creative teams of Toonz and Disney along with Dhimant Vyas and Vaibhav Kumaresh, expert animators, chose five best stories from out of the 14,000 entries.

The five kids are Suhani Shrikhande from Nagpur (10); Animesh Nigham from Bhopal (7); Arti Garg from New Delhi (11); Mayul Verma from Agra (11) and Aryan Sharma from New Delhi (9).

‘Kahaani masters’ A three-day workshop at the Toonz Studio being organised here will allow these ‘Kahaani Masters’ to develop their story ideas into a three-minute animation film.

Prosenjit Ganguly, one of the finest story tellers in the animation industry, will mentor them. The kids will themselves design and colour their characters, the story background and add meat to their story.

Each kid will be supported by an animator from Toonz, Jayakumar said.

Over the next three months, the creative team at Toonz will create five animated short films based on the designs and stories created by the kids. The Disney channel will air them in January.

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