Arena to offer Discreet Courseware

NEW DELHI: Arena Multimedia, the multimedia-training arm of Aptech Ltd., has

announced its national alliance with Discreet, a company dealing in integrated

digital content creation, management and distribution tools. While Arena centers

across the country would provide extensive training on Discreet animation

courses, Arena Animation Academy (AAA) would be the authorized training center

of Discreet gaming courses here.

The alliance ensures Discreet's latest animation courses such as 3ds Max and

Character Studio to be a regular offering at Arena's training centers. The

unique feature of this alliance lies in students being able to experience

training on Discreet's world-renowned course on animation.

Speaking on the move, Sudhir Mathur, head of Arena Multimedia, said,

"The three-decade old gaming industry is poised to witness a 11 per cent

growth in 2001 and 20 per cent growth for the year 2001 to 2002 according to

Digital Software Association (IDSA -US). This will take the total US video game

software sales to more than $10 billion and global sales over $35 billion. Our

alliance with Discreet is precisely aimed at tapping this market. Arena

Animation Academy will impart exclusive training on Discreet's popular gaming

course. Armed with this latest courseware, Arena Animation Academy aims to train

more than 1000 students by 2002 end, in Mumbai alone."

Raman Madan, business manager, animation - Discreet, South Asia, said,

"This alliance with Arena Multimedia offers Indian students the perfect

opportunity to train on Discreet's cutting edge animation software. Discreet's

courses in India will help impart advanced training on 3D gaming and animation

for students pursuing a career in game designing. Being the worldwide leader in

3D software for game development, Discreet takes upon itself the responsibility

of training and educating potential developers in emerging markets such as

India".