DISNEY INTERNATIONAL, WILD CANARY & MIKROS ANIMATION TALK ABOUT THE CHICKEN SQUAD AT CII SUMMIT FX

SummitFX is the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)’s digital conference on the Animation, Visual Effects, Gaming and Comics (AVGC) sector. It was organized this year from August 25th to August 29^th.

As part of the highlights, Mikros Animation team participated to a panel discussion with Disney International, moderated by Wild Canary executive producer and show-runner Tom Rogers, on bringing the new show, The Chicken Squad, to screens. Panelists included Emmy Award winner supervising director Elliot M. Bour , director and storyboard Artist Greg Rankin , veteran Disney TV animation executive Matthew Siegel , Humanitas Prize and Emmy Award-winning writer co-producer and story editor Rachel Ruderman with our great representatives: art director – feature animation Manoj Menon , senior supervisor Dheeraj Joseph and head of department lighting and compositing Mayur Pati.

For setting up the look & feel for The Chicken Squad characters, the goal was to make the characters stand out and also feel integrated with the background at any given time of the day.”
Mayur Pati, Head of Department, Lighting and Compositing

We did face a few challenges, it is one of the few shows where 90% of the characters have full-body fur and hair, accessories, and costumes with a lot of switches.”
Dheeraj Joseph, Senior Supervisor