Wednesday, October 26 2005 18:04 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Hyderabad: Nipuna Services Limited, Satyam's BPO Arm, has forged a business partnership with Spirit, a part of Ramanaidu Studios - one of India's finest studios in film-making. Nipuna-Spirit partnership has already bagged three special animation projects recently.

Lakshmi (Telugu), Belly full of Dreams (English) and Staten Island (English) are the three movie projects that Nipuna's animation team is engaged with.

"We're proud to be associated with Spirit, and are very excited to work on such challenging projects. This partnership brings significant opportunities with the major boom in the global animation industry" said Venkatesh Roddam, CEO, Nipuna Services Ltd.

"Nipuna's proven corporate culture and delivery combined with Spirits' strong technology foundation provides the fast-paced entertainment market a total Visual

"Effects solution designed to meet the most challenging performance, scalability and reliability demands, accelerating in today's digital environment", says Rana Daggubati, Managing Director, Spirit Media Pvt. Ltd.

"Spirit and Nipuna have formed an excellent synergy in the field of special effects to progressively surge ahead in the digital FX space collectively complementing each other with their individual strengths" said D. Suresh Babu, Managing Director, Suresh Productions Pvt Ltd.

"Our team consists of experienced animators, designers and production professionals, with significant industry experience in delivering world-class creative works for national and international clients", said Naveen Yelloji, Business Head - Animation, Nipuna.

Nipuna, world's first eSCM-SP Level 4 BPO company, is equipped with state-of-the-art facilities, including hardware and software like Maya, Shake, Smoke and 3DS Max.