kolkata india with its rich resource of folk tales can build up a throbbing animation market with the help of modern tools of information technology according to a prominent british animation expert your country with so much diversity in culture in language and vast repertoire of folk tales should not lag behind in the challenging world of animation industry laura knight cofounder of liverpoolbased jackdaw media said on friday while conducting a workshop on animation the aspiring animation filmmakers must use new tools like internet to make lowcost animation works rich in ideas and imagination knight also a senior lecturer of graphics and animation stanffordshire university said elaborating on how indian animation professionals could make the projects knight said a 3d studio max software would be sufficient to execute the work i think there is enough possibility to do the work on ones pc and webcast it and even send through dvd prospective animators could take the help of email to send their work to a select audience knight who is a commercial producer with channel four granada and tv television said the workshop was conducted by british council in association with the technology and research associates and west bengal governments film complex nandan she said there were over 3000 websites related to ukbased animation firms and aspirant animators could get production opportunity in advertising agencies tv cable and internet application computer games and special effects in britain the underlying principle of every commissioned project was to provide the animators and artistes who drew the sketches with breathing space and opportunity to pursue creativity that push the boundaries of art form in subject matter creativity and technology she said when asked about the reason for initiating the workshop being attended by people from citybased animation firms like netguru india the chief of british councils eastern india division david evans said kolkata was the gateway to south asia and the meet would help the animation sector here