The Opportunity
Stories need someone who can bring them to life. Brands need motion designs that evoke emotions. Digital platforms need animations and short films that captivate the audience. Every world, fictional or real, needs a designer who can draw from imagination to create novel experiences.
The opportunity belongs to animation film designers who think in narratives, characters, and motion.
At UDIT, you become that storyteller.
What Makes This Different?
The Craft and Art of Animation Film Design.
The Craft and Art of Animation Film Design.
Stories Unlimited
From personal experiences, local flavours, and craft traditions, you discover the art of storytelling through play and exploration. Build with narrative intent, directorial vision and technical craft.
Frames to Films
You learn to draw. Character, gesture, movement, and expression begin on paper. And then you master the art of creating memorable films through digital tools. The foundation of hand-drawn skills is what breathes life into your animations and films.
Storytellers by Design
Narrative structure. Cultural context. Sound design. World-building. You develop the complete toolkit, the authorship. The story comes alive through the method, the medium and the message of your making.
From Ideas to Visual Stories
2D and traditional frame-by-frame. Stop motion and material animation. Live Action, 3D, VFX, and motion graphics. illustrations and concept art. You develop fluency across diverse forms of sequential storytelling, animation and short films.
AI and Emerging Technologies
AR, VR, projection mapping, AI-assisted animation. Embedded into studio practice and interrogated as a practitioner. You engage with emerging technology as a critical storyteller.
Industry Immersion
Real briefs. Film screenings. Animation and film festival visits, practitioner co-creations, and industry collaborations. By graduation, you’ve spent four years with the animation and film industry.
Each Year Adds to Your Portfolio.
8 semesters. Each builds on the last. Every semester produces tangible, portfolio-worthy work and includes industry immersion outside campus.
YEAR 1
Design Foundation
Learn to see, draw and communicate visually. Build the grammar of design before you specialise. Understand how creative ecosystem and design thinking works from the ground up.
Learn to see, draw and communicate visually. Build the grammar of design before you specialise. Understand how creative ecosystem and design thinking works from the ground up.
Integration Project
Industry Immersion
YEAR 2
Develop your Animation & Film language
Immerse yourself in the visual language of animation and film. Explore image-making, storytelling, the principles of movement, sound and digital media through hands-on experimentation. You build your craft across traditional and digital techniques.
Immerse yourself in the visual language of animation and film. Explore image-making, storytelling, the principles of movement, sound and digital media through hands-on experimentation. You build your craft across traditional and digital techniques.
Integration Project
Industry Immersion
YEAR 3
Build Your Showreel
Move from technique to authorship. Develop characters, design immersive worlds, direct films with social impact, and engage with the technologies redefining animation. You show your stories in your style.
Move from technique to authorship. Develop characters, design immersive worlds, direct films with social impact, and engage with the technologies redefining animation. You show your stories in your style.
Integration Project
Industry Immersion
YEAR 4
Define Your Direction
Full-time industry. Professional output. Your transition from student to practitioner.
Full-time industry. Professional output. Your transition from student to practitioner.
Capstone Options
Industry Immersion
WORK SHOWCASE
The Work, The Impact And The Minds Behind It.
Social Impact Animation Film
MRGNA: In the Stillness Something Stirs by Spraha Mangal
Mrgna is an experimental animated film exploring the emotional complexities and silence surrounding child sexual abuse, encouraging dialogue around consent and safety.
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Hand-Drawn Animation Film
Kannimanga – Hand-Drawn Animated Film by Rachel Tom Anthony
Set in Kerala, Kannimanga explores intergenerational relationships, emotional inheritance, and unspoken love through poetic visuals and deeply personal storytelling.
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Experimental Animation & Cultural Storytelling Project
Patangarh Ka Hero by Nanki Ghuman
Inspired by Gond art, this animated short explores heroism through layered narratives, blending traditional visual language with contemporary animation techniques.
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Narrative Animation Film
The Day My Dad Arrives by Sreeram Jayaram
A frame-by-frame animated film portraying longing, migration, and family relationships through the emotional journey of a Kerala-based migrant worker’s family.
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Awareness & Social Impact Film
Women’s Folklore by Shreya Arora
This film creates conversations around gender, sexuality, equality, and identity while encouraging openness, awareness, and safe spaces for young audiences.
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Social Commentary Animation Film
Suni Sunai by Tarika Jain
Exploring fake news and media manipulation in contemporary India, this animated short examines how information transforms across communication platforms and audiences.
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Anish Sekhri
Graphic Designer
B.DES.
Animation Film Design
One of the biggest things I learned was to trust the process. Even when things felt uncertain, every step eventually helped me reach the goals I was working towards.
Anindita Banerjee
Communication Design Consultant
B.DES.
Animation Film Design
Being part of such a supportive and encouraging community gave me the confidence to experiment, take risks, and push my creativity further.
Nanki Ghuman
Graphic Designer
B.DES.
Animation Film Design
This journey taught me to slow down and really observe people, places, and stories with empathy. I realised that design is not just about making something beautiful, but about understanding the lives and realities behind it.
Surbhi Verma
Graphic Designer
Shubhi Gupta
Brand Designer
Saisha Bahl
Designer
Janvi Khera
User Experience Designer
Aakriti Jain
Product Design Lead
Sahil S. Aleria
Founder, Sunflower Studios
Mallika Johari
Programmer Analyst
Mohini Bothra
Founder, Hillside Potter
Career paths
Where Animation Film Designers Go.
Animation Studios & Production Houses
Junior Animator 
Animator
Senior Animator
Animation Director
Creative Director
VFX & Post-Production
Junior VFX Artist
VFX Artist
Senior VFX Artist
VFX Supervisor
VFX Director
Fashion Photography & Styling
Junior Art Director
Art Director
Senior Art Director
Associate Creative Director
Creative Director
Motion Design
Junior Motion Designer
Motion Designer
Senior Motion Designer
Art Director
Creative Director
Film & OTT Platforms
Assistant Director
Director
Creative Producer
Executive Producer
Social Impact & Cultural Institutions
Designer
Senior Designer
Design Lead
Creative Director
Design Entrepreneurship
Launch your own animation studio
production house,
creative agency
design-led venture
Every animated film that moved you was made by someone. Every character you've ever loved was designed by someone. Every story you've lost yourself in was created by someone. Be that someone.
this is your call.
Limited Seats.
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Fee, Admission Eligibility and Scholarship
Annual Fees
5,95,000 INR
Eligibility
10+2 in any stream with a min 50% aggregate.
Scholarships
Merit-cum-means scholarships.
Eligibility
10+2 in any stream with a min 50% aggregate.
