About Paprikaas

Paprikaas is a leading animation and games content provider based in Bangalore, India, Paprikaas Interactive offers creative, technical and production capabilities to design and produce computer-generated animation for feature films, television programming, commercials, and video games, with a strong focus on 3D content. We work with some of the top studios, production houses and video game companies in the world. The Paprikaas team’s work on FARMkids, an animated children series, recently won a ‘Best TV Series’ award at the Australian Effects and animation Festival in Sydney.

Thomson has made a majority investment in Paprikaas to strengthen the digital content service offerings made through its Technicolor Content Services division. Technicolor will have four different divisions operating out of Paprikaas: Paprikaas Animation, DreamWorks Animation Dedicated Unit, Paprikaas Interactive-Video Games and Paprikaas Visual Effects for Moving Picture Company, London - Technicolor's VFX arm for live action films and commercials. This diversity makes Paprikaas a one-of-its-kind digital content production studio in India. The recent agreement with DreamWorks puts Paprikaas in the forefront of global animation industry.

About Thomson

Thomson is a leader in digital media and technology business, providing Media, Entertainment and Communication companies worldwide with services, solutions, equipment and technologies. With deep and long-standing video expertise and essential proprietary technology, Thomson serves a variety of content creators and distributors – from movie studios, broadcasters and network operators to advertisers and emerging prosumer and consumer markets. Thomson’s technology, services and solutions cover the entire video value chain, from image capture, production and post-production services to physical or electronic distribution to advanced access devices which enable end-consumers to enjoy content wherever and whenever they want.

Thomson’s Technicolor Content Services division has provided services – ranging from DI, sound services and release printing, to compression and authoring for DVD – for a number of DreamWorks Animation’s releases. The division has also worked on major recent video game titles such as Gears of War, God of War II, The Silent Hill Experience and The Legend of Spyro. The services provided include cinematic animation, voice casting and recording, sound design and mixing.

Thomson has recently aligned a strategic partnership, through their Technicolor division with DreamWorks Animation to train and develop world-class talent and build a state-of-the-art CG Animation studio at Paprikaas to produce high-quality animated content including theatrical features.

To know more, visit: www.thomson.net , www.technicolor.com

About DreamWorks Animation

DreamWorks Animation SKG is the animation arm of DreamWorks SKG set up by media and entertainment legends, Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen. It was spun off as an independent unit in 2004. Its films are distributed worldwide by Paramount, but the animation studio remains independent of Paramount/Viacom. DreamWorks Animation has released 15 animated features till date including blockbusters such as Antz, Shrek, Madagascar, Over the Hedge, and the recently released Bee Movie. Future projects of the studio that are under production, readying for release include: Kung Fu Panda, Mdagascar: The Crate Escape and Monster vs. Alien.

DreamWorks Animation has recently signed an agreement with Technicolor Content Services division of Thomson, with whom it has had a successful relationship, to set up a state-of-the-art animation studio at Paprikaas Interactive, in Bangalore, India. This strategic alliance will give DreamWorks Animation access to a high-end animation talent pool overseas that it can help train and utilize for its future projects.

To know more, visit: www.dreamworks.com , www.dreamworksanimation.com