Posted at 7:57 pm May 20, 2011
Tags: Animation, Graphic Arts
By KC Santos
NAGA CITY, CAMARINES SUR ? This young animator believes that Naga?s animation industry will flourish if only his fellow animators would stay put.
Ruark Tapel currently works as an animator and visual artist for Yey! Digital Solutions, one of the animation outfits currently being ?incubated? in the Naga City Creative Media Center.
Ruark is only one of the many talented graduates from the Ateneo de Naga University, which is said to be the first and only university in the country that offers a bachelor?s degree course on 3D animation.
Upon graduating in 2009, Ruark was offered a job by prominent media outfits in Manila. He says he could?ve taken the offers but unlike others, Ruark says he believes in the potentials of start-up animation companies in Naga.
Ruark says making quality is very hardware-intensive, but despite technical limitations, Naga animators more than make up with their creativity.
Animators in Naga have to make certain compromises, he adds.
?We tone down the quality by making creative but less realistic renders, because realistic ones can be very hardware-intensive. But if we make an animated feature using simple 2D techniques, it takes up less of the hardware rendering part,? said the 23 year-old Bicolano.
Despite the lack of equipment, Ruark along with other young animators who make up the 3D and 2D studios under the NCCMC, managed to develop a storybook application for iPad users.
The digital storybook, entitled ?The Turtle and the Hare?, which is based on Aesop fables. This proved the competencies and extensive resourcefulness of animators in Naga given the lack of necessary hardware for production.
Ruark said the joint effort of the 3D and 2D companies under NCCMC aims to prove that investors based in Naga need not outsource creative assistance from outside their hometown.
The application will be made available for downloading, which can be used as either a recreational tool for children or an educational tool and example for animation students.
While limitations in hardware have its specific repercussions to their end-products, Ruark said it also pushed him to want to learn more and be more flexible as an artist.
He had to self-study on different topics like architecture, multimedia products for websites, and flash games. Ruark said the lack of certain things made him gain more knowledge.
Ruark said investors relegate their projects outside Naga because of the lack of participation from animation graduates. He hopes for more of their home-grown artists to stay in Naga as their involvement would result to their success while establishing Naga as a hotspot for Creative Process Outsourcing (CPO) of the country.
?They just focus on their passion, not on the money but how their craft makes them happy. Animators who love what their doing will last in this industry,? he said.
Get more information about Naga City Creative Media Center.
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