Guwahati (Assam) [India], October 23 (ANI): Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati college students have secured first prize within the 2025 24-hour contest, a world 24-hour animation problem, the institute mentioned in a launch on Thursday.
Organised by Toon Boom Animation, this 12 months’s competitors witnessed participation from 185 establishments from 35 nations.
Under the supervision of Dr Mriganka Madhukaillya, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Design, IIT Guwahati, the workforce of Arin Bandyopadhyay, Aditya Ravi Pawar, Aseel Pasha, and S Balasankar contested in opposition to 764 groups and three,820 college students to win the primary prize.
The theme for this 12 months’s contest was ‘Flip Your Perspective,’ which challenged members to create a 30-second animated brief movie in 24 hours.
The IIT Guwahati workforce’s artistic interpretation and technical excellence earned them the highest honour amongst a whole lot of entries worldwide.
Congratulating the IIT Guwahati workforce, Prof. Devendra Jalihal, Director, IIT Guwahati, mentioned, ‘This achievement displays the creativity and arduous work of our college students and college. Winning a world competitors of this scale is a testomony to the world-class expertise nurtured at IIT Guwahati.’
The 24-hour contest is an internationally identified competitors that places its members below time and stress constraints, whereas additionally requiring them to be extremely artistic.
Participants are given a theme at midnight of the 24-hour interval, which should embody storyboarding to the ultimate animation. As per the rules, the scholars cannot use any paintings, fashions or content material created upfront, thereby sustaining originality and ability.
To keep away from unfair benefit, using AI instruments to create visuals or sound is strictly prohibited. Submissions are required to be uploaded earlier than the deadline; even a one-second delay ends in computerized disqualification, exhibiting the strict and demanding nature of the competition at skilled requirements.
This 12 months’s competitors was sponsored by main animation enterprises similar to Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar, Sony Pictures Animation, Nickelodeon, Warner Bros. Animation, Bento Box, Netflix, Cartoon Saloon, Illumination, DreamWorks, Wacom, XP-Pen, ASIFA Hollywood, Animation Is Film Festival, and Toon Boom Animation, amongst others.
As the primary prize, IIT Guwahati college students have gained scholar passes to the Toronto Animation Arts Festival International (TAAFI) 2026, together with skilled animation software program licenses, studio memberships, and mentorship periods with Disney animators, amongst different recognitions. (ANI)