THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Razeem Rafeeq needs to have no more regrets on his decision. He had dumped a career in engineering for a roller-coaster ride in animation. And joined ace actor Mohanlal’s animation studio Vismayas Max animations in the city. Three years after he joined Vismayas as a student, Razeem has made his studio pride by bagging one of the two awards for Vismayas at the CG Animation festival held in Delhi last week. The other went to ‘Romeo Spikes’, a professional film done on a script by British author Joanne Reay. Razeem’s 30 second-long 2G animation film is, in fact, a promotional clipping for Vismayas’s iPhone applications. Named ‘Stoneage Doodles’, the clipping has a cave man proposing a cave woman and ending up a botch. The film won the award in the student category, while ‘Romeo Spikes’ won the best animation film in the professional category. ‘Stoneage Doodles’ had also been to the China Sichuan TV Festival and competed till the last round. It took six months for Razeem to finish his short film. And the hard times were mostly at the dubbing table. ‘’After B Tech, I wanted to pursue my passion. My family was not convinced, but I had the conviction,’’ he says.The characters of the cave woman and the cave man are interesting and for them Razeem sang for the first time. The lyrics were jointly written by Deepak Sivarajan, the pre-production head of Vismayas, and Razeem. ‘’Deepak made me sing for the animation film and it was a first for me. I thought it would not work, but everything fell into place finally,’’ he beams. According to Pramod Nilambur, head of marketing at Vismayas, all the students in the team are made to do short films at the end of their course. The Team Vismayas had created applications for Facebook which were a great hit. The students are asked to create iPhone applications and Razeem’s was one of them.‘’We sent them to different festivals across the globe so that the students get the confidence and exposure they need. Razeem can now be cent-per cent sure about the path he has chosen,’’ Pramod says. Razeem was helped out by Jibin Surendran, Praveen M S, Bipin Krishna and Nirmala Paul Das at Vismayas with the production of the clip. He has now been absorbed into the pre-production team of Vismayas. The professional team of Vismayas, who are behind the production of ‘Romeo Spikes’, are also overjoyed. Directed by K D Shybu, who is also the creative head of Vismayas, the film was inspired from the life and mysterious death of Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain. It was also the first attempt by Vismayas in animated book trailers and was launched at the London Book Fair, receiving wide response.
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