Forging the Blade of Indus: In conversation with Iksa Studio
Some studios begin with decks and deadlines. IKSA Studios is shaped by curiosity, enthusiasm, long friendships, and what its Creative Director & Co-Founder, Soham Chakraborty, calls “the perfect storm.” …
AGIF 2025: Celebrating our Animation Community
There’s something quietly magical about a room full of animators. Sketchbooks peek out of backpacks, laptops hum softly, and conversations flow from favourite childhood cartoons to late-night render struggles. …
Redefining the Modern Indian Aesthetic with Aditya Damle
Step into the world of Aditya Damle’s illustrations, and you’ll find stories that feel at once familiar and futuristic. …
Kites, Comics, and Chaos: The Worlds of Arya Pandey
When you ask Arya Pandey where it all began, the answer is not a design school classroom or a studio, but comics. …
Behind the Stop-Motion Tribute to Asian Paints Sharad Shamman
When Asian Paints and Ogilvy set out to celebrate 40 years of Sharad Shamman, they weren’t looking for a simple retrospective. …
A Festival, A Folktale, A Film: Ketan Pal’s Ghughuti Ki Maala
At 28, Ketan Pal is many things- freelance animator, short film director, motion designer, and, in his own words, someone who sips on strawberry milkshakes while animating scenes deep into the night. …
Shivam Choudhary’s Journey Through Art and Animation
When Shivam Choudhary was a child, he rarely went anywhere without a pencil in his hand. He drew on scraps, notebooks, margins - anything that could hold a mark. …
From Architecture to Animation: Geet Sampat’s Creative Journey
In the world of motion design, few portfolios feel as versatile and quietly confident as that of Mumbai-based 3D Motion Designer, Geet Sampat. …
Method to Their Madness: Behind the scenes of 1000 Deaths with Improper TV
Long before Improper TV became a creative studio with a distinct voice and a growing list of cult-favorite title sequences, Aditya Dutta and Mehr Chatterjee were two kids scribbling on furniture, notebooks, and pretty much any surface they could get their hands on. …
From Notebooks to Netflix with Ritaban Dass
Growing up in the golden age of Cartoon Network, his earliest drawing education came from sketching characters on the back pages of notebooks. …
