Myself Himanshu Jyoti Hazarika, I was born
and raised in the North-eastern state of Assam. I did my Bachelor of
Engineering in Electronics & Telecommunication. Since my childhood I have a
lust for painting and drawings which eventually tilted toward film and
animation. It was my first attempt to CEED and getting a seat in IDC is really
a surprise for me, as being an average student I always used to consider the
IITians as elites
CRACKING CEED …
So CEED 2015 was on my birthday so was
little bit excited also. To be very frank I didn’t got chance to prepare for
it. At that time I was working at Bharti Infratel Ltd. in tower operations. As
at bottom level telecom job used to be 24 x 7 in nature, I rarely used to get
time to prepare.
For
part A
I was always interested in current affairs
so it helped me. Other than that grab any IBPS magazine solve it (arithmetic and aptitude) few weeks prior
to CEED, if you can do that cracking part A is not a big deal. I followed some
pervious CEED papers and filtered out the topics which I am going left and
prepare the rest. (Like you can’t predict
which logo they will ask you to identify, but if you know the shortcut of
arithmetic you can answer any problem related to it). So select the portion
which is your forte, after all it’s just for screening and in MCQs it may quite
risky trying to attempt 100% if you are not sure with answers.
For
part B
It is quite simple to crack if you keep
practicing freehand sketches. I really faced problem in managing time as I
didn’t get much time to practice due to my job. But my past experience in
drawing and painting saved me.
Certain things which worked for me:
- 1. Follow previous papers
- 2. Practice geometrical shapes
- 3. Focus on perspective and light & shadows
- 4. Don’t go for detailing just try to present what has been asked in the question.
- 5. Study some Simple human/animal gestures and positions. (In CEED the storyboard had one character of Eagle and I forgot how it looked like, but fortunately I saw one sitting on a tree in the entrance of the Examination Hall J)
- 6. Practice pencil shading (Don’t think about using colours). If you can practice it well, it’s easy and fast way to bring out details with minimum number of tones.
- 7. Practice memory drawings of various day to day objects.
- 8. “Control your emotions”, if you are interested in a particular specialization and found a question from other domain easier and less time consuming don’t hesitate to attempt that. Don’t start thinking like you are cheating on your partner.
- 1. Don’t touch the keyboard. While drawing the cooker (During 1st question itself) by mistake I put my elbow over the keyboard. And it consumed around 5min-7min in allotting a new system.
- 2. Decide which question you’ll attempt first.
- 3. I devoted too much time in first question because of which I couldn’t able to finish the last one. So practice well and manage your time.
- 4. In questions like framing stories with given words/characters go for what strikes you first. I spent too much time in trying to frame something out of the box story.
PREPARING PORTFOLIO …
After getting 81 rank, which I didn’t
expected as I left 3 questions incomplete in Part B. I took a big risk in
January 2015, I resigned from my job as it can be difficult for me to prepare
the portfolio along with my hectic schedule (I am not suggesting to resign
anyways). So I gave 1 month for my portfolio, I included one short animated
clip (along with the sketches of key characters and storyboard), one comic
strip, one short documentary, caricature of two friends and some digital art
along with my old paintings.
DURING DAT …
Well this time I finished my comic strip J (As in CEED my storyboard was incomplete). This time I didn’t find
it difficult to manage the time. In DAT we were asked to write a story and then
make a comic strip based on that. It should be assumed that whoever appearing
in DAT, are good in sketching, so where you can grab more points is the story.
Here you’ll get decent amount of time so think for some time and frame the
story nicely and at the same time imagine the scenes in your mind. Once I am
done with the story, before started writing, I gave a brief introduction to the
key characters (Name, age, and gender), situation and relation between the
characters.
IN INTERVIEW...
First of all the panel was quite
supportive, it was nice to interact with them. One thing which I was always
following in all kind of interview I appeared till date is, I never present
fake character to suit the organization’s needs and always tell the truth,
whether I got short listed or not. And may be because of it one of the
Professor in the IDC panel complimented me by saying that, “That’s why I like
Northeast people, they always say the truth”.
Whatever
you present in your portfolio, keep ready with answers to every “WHY” and “HOW”.
And if it’s your original work, surely you can and if you are making it by
following someone else’s work then do mention about your inspiration in the
beginning itself. And just keep smiling.
During interview they just watched my animated
clip and asked some questions on it, looked at some old painting and rest all
the questions were on my personal life like why I did Engineering, why I am
switching for Engineering to Design, my hobbies and interests, etc.
THANKS TO …
I am really wants to thank my parents for
their support in all ups and downs in my life.
I will always grateful to Mr Bhaskar Ganesh
(Asst. Prof. NITS Mirza) for his consistent motivation.
I am thankful to Teacup Blog & Prasanna
Gadkari Sir for his support, Ashwin Gandhi (DP-IITK) , Himujjal Sarma (Alumni,
DoD-IITG), Anshumali Baruah (Alumni, IDC-IITB)
5 comments:
how are placements for Animation course and the salary offered ? plz help?
Hi Pradeep,
The placements are really good, otherwise why would there be so much competition to get into this course?
The exact figures of salary are not known, but i am sure they would be best in the industry as the degree holders are from the best course in India :) You can mail/messege people form this course. Maybe they will give you a better idea
hi sir, i want to know how much score or rank will be stand good to get in to idc for ID or PD. thanking you sir.
Hi Akash,
The cutoff varies a lot each year.
Based on my observations, I suggest you to score at least 60 in Part B, in order to have a good chance at IDC
All the best
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