Divya Bhaskar Awards Aasit Shah As Young Turk Of Gujarat

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Divya Bhaskar Awards Aasit Shah as Young Turk of Gujarat

Excerpts from the Interview

Company profile:
Equinoxx Animation & Visual Effects is a company founded by Aasit Shah in 2008. The company aims to be the leading provider of Creative Arts, Architectural Visualization, 3D Animation & Visual Effects training as well as production services in India. For Training, it operates in the franchisee name of Frameboxx Animation of Visual Effects.
Equinoxx Animation & Visual Effects can be reached at http://www.equinoxx.in

Milestone:
In 3 years, the company has rapidly expanded to provide training & production services at 2 prominent locations (SG Road, Vastrapur) in Ahmedabad with more than 7500 sqft of Infrastructure Space & 600+ Students.

Brief paragraph on your early life:
(Including family background, born-brought up, and education) (In just 100 words):
Aasit was born & brought up in Ahmedabad, Gujarat & belongs to a reputed Business Family. Aasit has done BE in Computer Engineering from DDIT, Gujarat after which he got his MS in Computer ...
... Science from University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles with an emphasis in Software Engineering. After graduation, he pursued a career in technology in Silicon Valley. Aasit has more than ten years of experience in technology firms in various roles.
Aasit is an accomplished & driven entrepreneur with background and experience in technology, animation, design & innovation. He has proven track record in launching successful ventures in a competitive environment, meeting & exceeding goals, project execution & problem solving, leading & managing people.

Beginning of career:
(How you started working and when?):
Aasit started his career with Adobe Systems as a Computer Scientist & worked on a variety of products like XMP (eXtensible Metadata Platform), Adobe PDF Document Server & Adobe Photoshop Image Server. Thereafter, he worked with eBay Inc. & managed a strong team of software engineers in testing the largest online billing system in the world which bills more than 100 million users. After six years in USA, Aasit shifted back to Ahmedabad, India & founded an online classifieds portal for India called YObaba.com which provides online classifieds and forums functionality to users through which they can buy-sell stuff, find jobs, promote business & more. Aasit also joined I.D.E.A, a San Francisco; 11animators working on various international & national projects from clients in USA, Australia as well as India.
Turning point:
(How you found opportunity to work in your existing field/business):
After I.D.E.A, Aasit started Equinoxx Animation & Visual Effects in Ahmedabad.
Equinoxx Animation & Visual Effects has two verticals – Training & Production. Under Training, it operates in the franchisee name of Frameboxx Animation & Visual Effects. Frameboxx Ahmedabad with two centres at S.G. Road & Vastrapur is the largest 3D Animation & VFX Academy in Gujarat with 5000 sqft of Infrastructure Space, 600+ Students, 9 Faculties, 50+ Workstations, Apple MAC Machines as well as WACOM Bamboo Sketching Tablets. Under Production, Equinoxx has worked with several reputed national & international companies as well as Government of Gujarat on projects related to Creative Arts, 2D & 3D Animation Films as well as Visual Effects.
Achievement:
(Including awards and recognitions. It should be work related ones):

Frameboxx Ahmedabad has been named as one of the best performing academic centres in India. Students of Frameboxx Ahmedabad have won two national awards.

Role Model:
(Your source of inspirations):

I look upto Steve Jobs for completely revolutionizing the music, phone, tablet as well as animation industries. I look upto Sachin Tendulkar & Amitabh Bachchan for achieving greatness & yet being so humble & down to earth.

Hobbies:
(Your favourite past time activity):

Reading Biographies of Business Icons / Successful People as well as Fiction Novels. I also like travelling & visiting new places as well as listening to music & watching English movies.

Ambition:
(Your dream project/activity which you aspire to undertake):

My dream is to achieve greatness in the field I am & become a role model for others. My dream is to become powerful enough to bring a positive change in my industry as well as to the larger society.