About the department

The Department of Animation Cinema at SRFTI offers a unique learning experience to the student that incorporates a perfect blend of both animation and cinema learning under the same roof. Hence recognizing Animation Art as Cinema, the department has a view in re-inventing its learning pedagogy. It intends and hopes to shift perceptions of animation from "the cartoon" to a form that is an extension of the plastic arts with Cinematic Expression. With a distinguished visiting faculty, the Department's faculty is equipped to teach Hand Drawn Classical Animation as well as Computer aided Animation techniques, Sequential Art, Game collaborative spirit of Design and Visual Effects. Drawing out the movie making, the Department has an open and inclusive philosophy to function as a crucible for the aesthetics and sensibilities of modern moving image making.

Course objective

Animation activity in our country has largely been that of creating humor by moving supple cartoons about. And in doing so, we seem to have easily adopted a way of telling that is much away from our true sensibilities. Very rarely has Animation here been seen as a form of Cinema that can provoke thought, entertain, educate and inform with true dynamics of able narratives. The method of learning conceived at the Department of Animation Cinema explores our own ways of telling, our signs and gestures, and our theater and narrative traditions to construct a unique language and grammar for the art. It thus hopes to bring in an intellectual foothold for Indian Animation Cinema that is clearly lacking today. A 'reason for being that will bring in a true Avant Garde to the much needed times, to re-engineer and shape an animation that is ours.

Faculty & Academic Support Staff

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  Arghya Sengupta

  Associate Professor
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  Suvobrata Roy Chowdhury

  Assistant Professor
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  Saatwik Biswas

  Assistant Professor

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