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CGTANTRA.COM

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INDIAS LARGEST CG COMMUNITY
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Established in October 2004, it has now grown into an elite community of over 6200 members from all over the world. Yes, we are talking about the fastest growing Indian Graphic website… "CGTANTRA" is for creative & technical artists - anyone using traditional & digital medium to tell a concept.

The members vary from Indian professionals working in major studios around the globe to students of different Institutes & colleges. The sole objective behind this community is to visually represent a concept, thought and worked upon by an artist. Ranging from a still image to a moving sequence, it’s all about showcasing a story technically and creatively perceived in one's mind.

cgTantra proves as an extension in enhancing the state of creative digital arts worldwide. It supports artists at all level by offering a wide range of services to connect, inform, educate, aspire, enhance and promote, by celebrating achievement, excellence and innovation in all aspects of digital art.

cgTantra is unbiased in its enthusiastic support of all genres, styles, tools & outlooks. It supports innumerable chapters catering to different professional and student categories including Film, Games, Concept design, Visualization, Architectural visualization, Illustration, and more.

cgTantra acts as a paradigm in binding together the entire community that supports supplies and enjoys their endeavors inclusive of its creative and technical entities.

cgTantra provides a platform to each individual from beginners to the industry leaders in all aspect of our community: pure artists, designers, animators, programmers, directors, producers, educationalists and hardware developers.

It provides exposure to the upcoming digital artists, on the other hand providing them opportunity to creatively interact with "Pro's" of the community. And this is what sets it apart from the others in league.

cgTantra believes in the philosophy of Learn, Believe and Grow which we share among all our members that form this ever growing pool of talent in the form of Discussion forums, Tutorials and workshops, Image Showcases, Artist Galleries, Interviews of artists, Production coverage's, Contest and Challenges, job offers etc. cgTantra has always been an active partner in various events organized by the different Digital Graphic communities. It has been actively associated with events like ABAI FEST, IAD, ANIFEST, 24FPS, and has always takes a first stand in organizing events and associating with the events involving the leading Production studios and Professionals. CgTantra celebrated its second anniversary on a grand scale on 3rd december'2006 in Mumbai marked by the presence of Kamal Mistry, Technical Director, Pixar Animation Studios with a session on "Making of CARS", Mike Seymour, Emmy Nominated Visual Effects Artist from Sydney and many more from the likes. There was also a 5 day 'Renderman Workshop' taken by Malcolm Kesson, RenderMan Training specialist as well as by Kamal Mistry. Studio Professionals from all over the country attended it with a rigorous session of putting Renderman to use.

The purpose is to creatively interact with the counterparts and professionals and exchange some tips and tricks and update oneself with the new skills of the field.

With the ever burning passionate desire and with the onset of new hardware and software tools, cgTantra believes in providing the artist, technical expertise over the digital tools by preserving the traditional skills of a creative digital artist. It adheres in its perspective to let an artist go beyond their current state of artistic skills and in turn, excelling the panorama of the creative digital arts.

Moreover, cgTantra turns out to be the most resourceful way for a creative digital artist to upgrade its individual skills in turn adding on to the collective goals of the community-making them "TANTRIKS" in its true sense….