The FOSSEE Project in association with Whistling Woods International (WWI), All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and IDC, IIT Bombay organised the Synfig Studio 2D Animation Hackathon. The other partners who joined hands with us were Huion and Wheels Global Foundation. The theme of the hackathon was “Panchatantra Stories”. The task given to the participants was to create an animation of duration of around 2 minutes in Synfig Studio. The narration in the animations can be in any of the 22 scheduled Indian languages and English. The hackathon was open to all Indian nationals, who had basic knowledge in graphics and animation.
Out of 103 completed submissions, the judging panel shortlisted the winners. 70 out of these submissions were of good quality, out of these top three winners were chosen. Ten teams were selected for consolation prizes. The submission of four teams were awarded the special recognition prizes, one among them was the submission by the youngest participant of this hackathon, a class 4 student. More details of the hackathon can be found here: https://focal.fossee.in/synfig-studio-animation-hackathon.