AJAY JOSHI

Director (Global School of Animation & Games)

 

Ajay Joshi has journeyed from an Independent Television Producer for leading TV Channels and production houses to imparting new technologies to new minds as an Educationist. 

He started India's first graduation course in Animation at BIT (Birla Institute of Technology).

He also conceptualized, christened and established Academy of Animation & Gaming (AAG) in 2006.

He was the Founder Director and Chief Knowledge Officer of AAG, for the initial two years before moving on to promote animation education across the country. 

Under him hundreds of professionals have trained in the fields of Animation, Television & New Media Technologies. 

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Mohd. Faisal

Creative Head

 

The brand ambassador of Wacom, India, a 3D Animation Expert, as well as a renowned Concept & Comic Book Artist; some accolades that show Faisal's immense industry expertise in the field of International Animation Outsourcing.

With years of experience under his belt in the industry as well as in providing a content-rich animation education to students, Faisal has proved to be an invaluable resource to the animation industry.

But his popularity is not only on paper.

Known by his alias as "The Monster Merchant", his fan following on-line has crossed borders, as evident from the more than 70 thousand views of his sketching and animation tutorials showing on youtube worldwide.

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Mohd. Toufiq

Head Comic Department

 

Known throughout the industry for his more-than-13-years of experience in Comic Book Illustrations and Concept Art, Toufiq has been a Senior Artist in Raj Comics, has worked in Shaktiman Comics and has created characters like Parmanu, Anthony, Shakti & Doga.

With over 80 comic titles showcasing his high-quality work, Taufiq has won the respect of all his students and peers, and has also proven to be an inspiring teacher who takes pains over his class, especially the weaker ones.

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B.K. Kalia

Head of Visual Effects Department

 

Committed to excellence, B.K. Kalia is known for his analytical skills.

With his 9+ years of experience in the industry, he has gained an invaluable understanding of 3d and post production pipeline with great detail, alongside a good understanding of the IT domain i.e. programming, database, design, operating systems, internet etc.

He has proven to be a great resource to Global School, and continues to enlighten young minds in visual effects.

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DEEPAK NAIR

ANIMATION DIRECTOR

 

Has worked as Animator, Animation Supervisor, Animation Head, Layout Chief and Animation Director in the past 10 years of experience in Animation industry.

Animation Head in Firefly Creative Studio Pvt. Ltd., India’s Award winning Visual Effects Studio.

Worked on 4 European animated TV shows

Pans Bates,

Celestine,

Pablo the Little Red Fox,

Vampires - Pirates – Alien,

Talis,

Zoolane,

Ethelbert

Jasper the Penguin

Pigeon Boy

Animation Supervisor on an Italian TV show (Tinguaro and the Sun Lizards) CO-Directed ‘Kiddo the Super Truck’, a direct to DVD Feature film

CO-Directed ‘The Smart Crow’,a 3 minute Short film for Hyderabad Animations.

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R.Murali Rajan

 

CG film maker with Diploma in Mech. Engineering & Diploma In Computer Art (Illustration, Image Editing, 2D & 3D Animation, Digital Video Editing and Multimedia)

Character Animation (3D) and Vfx. Faculty- Taught and Produced some fine 3D artists, animators &Vfx artist. Some of them are working at MNCs like Papprikkas – Dream works (I), Rhythm & Hue (I), Sony Image Works(I), Data Quest, KenKreatives and etc.

As 3DArtist, Animator, and freelance worked on more than 80 commercials and 6 feature film works (among them Anji-Telugu feature film won the National award).

3D Artist and Animator – MUV Technologies Ltd (Dec 2000 – Oct 2001)

Worked on my first feature film project 12B (Tamil) at all the departments of the production.

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Praveen Chrispug

(Visiting Faculty)

 

Award winning Animation Director. Praveen completed his M.A (Animation) in the United Kingdom. Combining a craftsman’s approach to using technology in storytelling, with international animation experience.

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Vibhas K. Dhingra

Senior Game Developer

Vibhas has around 12 yrs experience in india's IT outsourcing industry, having handled game programming as well business projects, for distinguished clients. 
Given his experience with exposure to the complete software development cycle, and CMM level development processes, he brings to the gaming course and students, process discipline, ensuring developers graduating are ingrained with good programming habits.
Further,having been part of Engineering Excellence Group in top tier IT Company of India, and worked on sufficently complex game outsourcing projects, he brings a single minded  focus on core concepts and techniques of game development, instilling programming rigor in graduating students, and enabling them to be comfortable in professional game development scenario.

Having worked on both sides of the Atlantic he also brings a global cultural perspective and understanding of globalization to the classroom.