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Kuris turned one year last October 19 this year; it was our First Year Anniversary to be exact. What else can we ask for the team but to stay intact as a team and believing in each other. We knew we have the same burning passion since the first day we met each other as trainees for the short course scholarship on 2D animation last April 2007. From then on, everything has chance from the way we perceive our artistic vision. We learn to find direction and focus with our craft as artists. We learned a lot from discipline to risk, from having good time to getting serious when the odd gets tough. Fate has surely changed us.
On September 19 last year, we’ve shown to the public our very-first animated group project “The Adventures of TASI” as a tribute to the statue of WVCST, our training school who became a little boy for one day. There were mixed reactions after we showed it to everyone who were curious what amateur animators from Iloilo can do. But we accepted everything as a way to grow up and appreciate our talents further. The animation we did became the school’s official mascot, an honor in our part as uprising animators.
Then came our graduation day, October 19, 2007 at SM City Iloilo. The mall considered our event as the first-ever graduation held in that place which they willingly gave the venue for free. They believe in our event to promote and entice mallgoers. During that day, the group was struggling to meet the deadline and having a hard time preparing for everything. We were a bit late at the event but we carry on and everything went well. A lot of people came to see our graduation and appreciated our animated projects including a short animated Ad clip of SM featuring their old mascots Es and Em.
A few months after, Iloilo’s premiere mall catered the very-first animation event in the region, a five-day animation exhibit of Kuris Animators which was dubbed as “Dinagyamation” at the ground floor from January 20-25, 2008 and a special one-night screening of “The BEQUEST: Origin of Dinagyang” on January 25, 2008 at 7pm at SM Cinema 7. The BEQUEST was considered as the first Ilonggo animated short film with a fusion of 2D and 3D animation format and said to be the first-ever animation to directly promote as famous festival in the Philippines. Top sponsors of the event were Iloilo Dinagyang Foundation, Inc. (IDFI), City Government of Iloilo, SM City Iloilo, SM Cinema, Mang Inasal Philippines, Waffle Time, Invictus and many other private companies. Our media partners include GMA TV-6, RMN Radio and The Daily Guardian were responsible for promoting our team project.
A year later, we are still keeping our hopes alive. Some of our members are busy finishing a special project with our training school (Western Visayas College of Science and Technology) that would run until early next year. Others are preparing for our future projects and plans of the group. We try to communicate with each other to keep the bond. Hopefully this month, we could have a reunion in time for Christmas. Everyone in the group would love to see each other, to talk and celebrate what fate has bestowed us.
Kuris turned one year last October 19 this year; it was our First Year Anniversary to be exact. What else can we ask for the team but to stay intact as a team and believing in each other. We knew we have the same burning passion since the first day we met each other as trainees for the short course scholarship on 2D animation last April 2007. From then on, everything has chance from the way we perceive our artistic vision. We learn to find direction and focus with our craft as artists. We learned a lot from discipline to risk, from having good time to getting serious when the odd gets tough. Fate has surely changed us.
On September 19 last year, we’ve shown to the public our very-first animated group project “The Adventures of TASI” as a tribute to the statue of WVCST, our training school who became a little boy for one day. There were mixed reactions after we showed it to everyone who were curious what amateur animators from Iloilo can do. But we accepted everything as a way to grow up and appreciate our talents further. The animation we did became the school’s official mascot, an honor in our part as uprising animators.
Then came our graduation day, October 19, 2007 at SM City Iloilo. The mall considered our event as the first-ever graduation held in that place which they willingly gave the venue for free. They believe in our event to promote and entice mallgoers. During that day, the group was struggling to meet the deadline and having a hard time preparing for everything. We were a bit late at the event but we carry on and everything went well. A lot of people came to see our graduation and appreciated our animated projects including a short animated Ad clip of SM featuring their old mascots Es and Em.
A few months after, Iloilo’s premiere mall catered the very-first animation event in the region, a five-day animation exhibit of Kuris Animators which was dubbed as “Dinagyamation” at the ground floor from January 20-25, 2008 and a special one-night screening of “The BEQUEST: Origin of Dinagyang” on January 25, 2008 at 7pm at SM Cinema 7. The BEQUEST was considered as the first Ilonggo animated short film with a fusion of 2D and 3D animation format and said to be the first-ever animation to directly promote as famous festival in the Philippines. Top sponsors of the event were Iloilo Dinagyang Foundation, Inc. (IDFI), City Government of Iloilo, SM City Iloilo, SM Cinema, Mang Inasal Philippines, Waffle Time, Invictus and many other private companies. Our media partners include GMA TV-6, RMN Radio and The Daily Guardian were responsible for promoting our team project.
A year later, we are still keeping our hopes alive. Some of our members are busy finishing a special project with our training school (Western Visayas College of Science and Technology) that would run until early next year. Others are preparing for our future projects and plans of the group. We try to communicate with each other to keep the bond. Hopefully this month, we could have a reunion in time for Christmas. Everyone in the group would love to see each other, to talk and celebrate what fate has bestowed us.
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