subject: Top Animation Courses in India [print this page] Animation courses have become very popular over the recent years as a career in animation allows to fulfill both the creative and material needs of the budding artists. In India, Animation courses have become very popular and the same can be seen in various movies and other programs. There is a huge demand of animation artists in movie, video games, Television, Medical visualizations and corporate presentations industries and other creative fields. Therefore over the years, quite a good number of Animation institutes have come up that offer various short term and long term courses in animation.
India is now one of the most serious contenders for Animation. There are several career institutes offering Animation and Cartoon Courses in India.
There are various courses on animation and cartoons offered in colleges all over the country.
Even though both diploma and degree courses are available across colleges in India, post graduate degree courses in animation and cartoon is very rare.
Please check below the qualification required for doing a diploma course in Animation in India.
Qualification: For applying for a diploma course in animation, one has to pass the 12th standard examination from any recognized board with a minimum of 45% marks. For the bachelor's degree program the same eligibility criterion is applicable, while for the PG program one must have a bachelor's degree.
Benefits: As the animation & multimedia industry is growing rapidly, pursuing a course in these fields can boost your career. Moreover, if you have a knack of drawing or creating characters it would help satisfy your creative spirits.
Scope Abroad: Though cartoons and animations hardly seem to be products meant for outsourcing, yet Indian cartoonists and animators have begun working for foreign companies. Indeed, Indian companies are moving ahead of their South East Asian counterparts in the field of animation. The western countries are favoring India over any other country for outsourcing animation because of the following reasons:
1. Vast base of English speaking manpower
2. Cost advantage
3. Abundance of well-equipped studios
In India there are many institutions offering undergraduate Courses in Animation
Some of the courses offered in various colleges are
B.A Digital Media
The B.A. in Digital Media programs have been designed in response to the growing need for good professional program in Digital Media. A three year program has been conceived to address this need.
The aim of this program is to introduce and prepare its students for a career in the Digital Media industry. It seeks to achieve this by providing an environment that would foster the gaining and deployment of technical skills, knowledge and methods that would enable them to take the position of a key team member in this rapidly developing and changing industry.
Type of Digital Media Courses offered -
3D Animation
visual effects
Game Development
Game design
P.G Diploma
The Post Graduate programs combine instruction in the artistic and technological skills required of contemporary Digital Media professionals. The student acquires a critical and strategically informed perspective of the evolving technologies used in the industry, their application and the future of the industry.
It provides students with a theoretical as well as practical knowledge in the production of Digital Media content and prepares the student for a career and related employment within their chosen specialty. The students are also given ample opportunity to develop their interpersonal and project management skills which will enable them to be effective in a team based or networked production environment.
Type of PG Diploma Courses offered
3D Animation
visual effects
Game Development
Advertising Design
Industrial Design
B.Sc. Digital Media
The B.Sc. Digital Media program has been formulated with particular reference to the Indian market, keeping in mind the dynamic nature of the Indian Digital Media Industry and its relationship to the Digital Media Industry around the world. The aim of this program is to introduce and prepare its students for a career in the Digital Media industry and at the same time maintain the academic ethos of a graduate study. Structured similar to the BA program, this program lays greater emphasis on the theoretical aspects of Digital Media.
Year 1 focuses on the foundation skills of digital media production, introducing concepts of design and how they are implemented from original concept to completion. In addition they will have the opportunity to explore a variety of visualization techniques.
Year 2 helps students to further develop themselves within their area of specialization.
Year 3 builds upon the individual skills of the previous two years and will focus on their ability to develop to do Digital Visualization which will include preparing a project brief, project execution plan, developing concepts, creating story boards and other pre visualization data.
The above are some of the popular Animation Courses offered in India. Hope the above will help you decide on what course and in what college suits your necessity best.
