I / Chennai June 28, 2007Chennai-based Accel Animation Studio (AAS) is planning a tie-up with Canadian production house Kahani World to make a full-length animated feature film."We are working on signing an MoU for this purpose and expect to release the movie in about 30 months," N R Panicker, chairman, Accel Transmatic, the parent company of AAS, told PTI.The movie, targeted at a global audience, will have a European director, he said."We have also done visual effects for the upcoming Bollywood movie Friends Forever," he said.The Ashmit Patel starrer is slated for release this August, S Muralidhar, CTO, Accel Transmatic, said.This would be the first time that an Indian feature film would have about 40 minutes of animated characters sharing screen space with real actors.The company has also bagged four more projects from film company Celluloid Dreams."Yet another project called Joker, which will be formally announced by them, will have about 45-50 minutes of animated characters on screen," the CTO added.Accel had recently announced the setting up of a motion capture studio at Thiruvananthapuram, in the KINFRA TV and Film Park.Panicker said the studio being set up at a cost of Rs 4 crore, will be operational by August.
