Workshops & Guest Lectures

Workshops & Guest Lectures

Many critically acclaimed professionals have shared and planned to continue sharing their knowledge and wisdom with our students. A few of them are:

International Fame

  • Mr. Barrie.M.Osborne, Oscar Winner (The Lord of the Rings), Producer (LOTR, Matrix)
  • Mr. Christian Rivers, Oscar & BAFTA winning Animator, VFX Producer, Art Director & Filmmaker. (Kingkong, LOTR)
  • Mr. Lorne Lanning, Co-Founder, Oddworld Inhabitants Game Company, USA
  • Mr. Collin Brown, CEO - Cinesite, UK (The Production facility of "Harry Potter")
  • Mr. Igor Chevalier, Art Director, Conceptual Illustrator, Creature Designer
  • Mr. Peter Chiang, Visual Effects Director -"Batman"
  • Mr. Michael Paycer, Film Producer (Speed 2)
  • Mr. Matt Costello, World Famous Writer of Doom and Pirates of the Carribean 3
  • Mr. Manikandan, Visual Effects Artist, Matte Painter (over 200 films)
  • Mr. Mike Williams, Vice President, Punch Entertainment (Mobile Gaming)
  • Mr. John Labree, Former CTO Weta Digital
  • Mr. Ernest Adams, Game Design consultant and Trainer – Author of Fundamentals of Game Design, Break into Game Industry, Game Design and Development, Game Design
  • Mr. Ryan Lobo - Freelance Photographer
  • Mr. Chung Tham - Game Conept Artist
  • Mr. Brian C Mcauliffe - Director of Production Sumo India
  • Ms. Shelley Page-DreamWorks Head of International Outreach
  • Ms. Joanne Greenberg, Vermont, USA -Director of 50 Theater Production
  • Mr. David Freeman, LA, New York's & London's most popular screen writing and development master class
  • Mr. Oliver Shyal Beardsley, Crowd Simulation Technical Director of Harry Potter Games ,X-Men etc
  • Sarath Madhavan, Technical Director of Weta Digital - Layout Technical Director Of Avatar
  • Ed Hook, Author of Acting for Animation- Acting teacher for twenty-five years in New York and Los Angeles
  • Greg Bridge, Senior Animation Instructor (DCA & 3D) Vancouver Film School,Canada

National Fame

  • Prof. MadhuKrishnan, CEO & Creative Director, Signet (Basel School of Design, Switzerland)
  • Mr. Praveen Chrispug, Consultant for Stopmotion Animation(BCU, UK)
  • Dr Parthasarathy, Retired Professor of Mathematics, IIT Chennai
  • Mr. Shivbilas Saksena, Principal Faculty (Film & Video Communication), National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad
  • Mr Arjun Gupte, Animation director and entrepreneur (NID)
  • Mr. Amitesh, Film Maker, (NID)
  • Ms. Sikha, Creative Head- ITC, (NID)
  • Mr. Kaustuv Ray, Animator, (NID)
  • Mr. Kalyan, Designer, (NID)
  • Mr. Anand Krishnamoorthi, Sound Technician
  • Mr. Nasser, Acting- Multi-talented Indian film personality
  • Mr. Sridhar, Director - Antima FX
  • Mr. Priyankar Gupta, Freelance illustrator, Animation film designer and Visualizer (NID)
  • Prof. G. Chandrasekaran, Principal, College of Fine Arts
  • Mr Sasi Film Director, (Tamil Films - Sollamalae, Dishyum)
  • Mr. T. R. Narayanaswamy, Freelance Photographer, founder Silver Image Fotografic studio
  • Mr. Senthil, Freelance Cinematographer
  • Zamir Hussain, Lead Compositor Geon Studio currently working as Sr Digital Artist at Lucas film, Singapore
  • Mr Manikandan, Lighting TD and Lead Matte painting Artist – Prana Studio
  • Mr.Fidiles, Miniature & Set specialist
  • Dr. Muthukumar, Director - Folklore Institute
  • Mr. Madhiazagan, Cinematographer
  • Mr. Vinod, Lead Manager from Bevytro, Chennai
  • Mr. V.M. Raviraj, Head of Dept. Direction – MGR Govt. Film & TV Institute, Chennai
  • Mr. Murali Kamath – Freelance Cinamtographer
  • Mr. Vasu Dixit - Story board artist and Swartham Group band
  • Mr. Girish J - Cinematographer (Proffession Camera Artist for Indian Cricket team)
  • Mr. Narsimha - Freelance Sculptor
  • Mr Sudhir Teli - Senior Aniamtor Blue Grass Studios
  • Mr. Pradeep - Bimba Aniamtion
  • Mr. Brahmanand - 2D Animator
  • Mr. Sudhir Shelar - CEO Shilahar Associates( Marcom Consultant)
  • Mr. Suresh - Illustrator/Painter, Creative Consultant
  • Ms. Archana Krishnamurthy - Head Outreach Technicolor
  • Mr. Murali Dharan- Freelance 2D Animator / Concept Artist
  • Mr. Vijay Ladha - CA , Director Fourell Appliances India Ltd
  • Mr. Neelanchala - Mobile Game Developer Hungama.Com
  • Mr. Shivaraman - Technical Director Lighting Dept-Technicolor India
  • Mr. VrushKetan - Game Designer Digital Chocolate
  • Ms Shamshad Khan - Freelance Photographer
  • Dr.Ruth - Asst. Proffessor, English Language
  • Mr. JAGAN MOHAN R - Senior Fx Artist of Tinker Bell (DVD Movie) , ZOKOMON (Hindi Movie)
  • Mr.Ramesh Desai Cinematography
  • Dr.Kennedy, Direction & Editing- Producer & Asst. Professor, Educational Multimedia Research Centre, O.U
  • Mr.B.Balaswamy Professional Scrip writer
  • Dr.A.Sai Prasad Resarch methodolgy
  • B. Kranthi Kumar, Head 3D Stereoscopic Animation - worked in Mougli 3D, Little Prince 3D, Iron Man, Donkey Ollie, Alpha and Omega 3D
  • Shesha Prasad – VP, Rhythm & Hue
  • Vardarajan, Project Manager / CEO of Vsire worked in Mickey Club House & many more
  • Charan Yedala, ROBO, Lead Dynamic Artist worked in Anaganaga O Dheerudu
  • Mr Kishen Goud MA History Of Art, MFA Painting - Lecturer JNTU University
  • Mr Prakash Lead Dynamic Artist- Dreamworks (ICAT)
  • ILAMPARITHI RAJU, Senior Game Artist at RAL Soft
  • Mouli Murur, Design Faculty - School of the Art Institute of Chicago
  • Fazil Ahmed, Rigging Team Head / Creature TD, Sanra Media