Toonz Academy and Karma Play launch one-year courses in video game art and programming 

Thiruvananthapuram: Toonz Academy and Karma Play Academy, have jointly announced the launch of their one-year course in video game art.  

The course is structured so that even those working full-time in IT or in other industries can complete it. The first batch will commence on September 9^th, 2024. 

For the first time in India, students can learn directly from the creators of legendary games such as The Fast & The Furious Tokyo Drift, Candy Crush Soda Saga, Returnal, Unreal Tournament, Star Wars Jedi Academy, Grounded, EA Golf and The Sims.  

During the Final Game Project which lasts six months, all students will get the opportunity to work on a real-world game for the PC, and game consoles such as the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X. The students will be working in collaboration with the experienced game developers at Karma Play.  

During the one-year course, there will be several international guest lectures from video game industry veterans from North America and Europe. These guest lectures will be on specialist subjects such as Graphics Programming, Quality Assurance, Video Game Publishing, Audio and Video Game Marketing.  

“The Final Game Project is designed to be a video game industry internship,” said Jayakumar P, CEO of Toonz Media Group. “This will provide the students with the cutting-edge skills required to produce blockbuster games.” 

Established in 2002, Toonz Academy has its campus in Technopark, Trivandrum and is supported by the state-of-the-art 2D and 3D studio facilities for the learning benefit of the students. The Academy offers both short and long-term career-oriented courses in 2D and 3D animation, besides Graphic Multimedia and Visual Effects. 

“Creating a triple A quality game like Grand Theft Auto or Spider-Man takes many years. The production budgets exceed Hollywood blockbusters such as The Avengers,” says Biju Jones, the founder of Karma Play. “Our goal is to train students to produce games that can match the very best in the market today.” 

The key features of the Karma Play Academy courses are: 

• Study even if you are still working full-time 

• Study during weekends 

• All courses taught by industry professionals still working in the video games industry 

• Learn to create cutting-edge games for the PC, Sony PlayStation 5 and Microsoft Xbox Series X 

• Weekly mini projects 

• Get trained alongside a professional game development team during the Final Game Project 

• Guest lectures by industry professionals from around the world 

• Separate syllabus for artists and programmers 

About Toonz Academy 

Toonz Academy is the educational wing of Toonz Media Group, a 360-degree media powerhouse with over 25 years of unparalleled experience and one of the world’s most active animation production studios (over 10,000 minutes of 2D and CGI kids and family content per year). Toonz has to its credit several animations and live-action series, as well as feature films including Wolverine and the X-Men with Marvel, Speed Racer: The Next Generation with Lionsgate, Mostly Ghostly with Universal, Gummy Bear and Friends, and more. Toonz has also ventured into emerging technologies like AR, VR, and Gaming. 

www.toonz.co 

About Karma Play Academy 

Karma Play Academy is the training division of independent game developer, Karma Play. Karma Play is currently developing multiple games for the PC, consoles and mobiles. The company’s first game, Old Skool Racer is now available on Steam and Epic Store.  

For enquiries please contact Toonz Academy at: 

Email: info@toonzacademy.com 

Mob: +91 7994446923