AVGC 40 Under 40 Winnners
Since the age of 12 years, I am a voice actor for animation. Now I am an 18-year-old singer, dubbing artist, dubbing supervisor, and creative consultant for animation productions. At the age of 13 years, I worked on the first Sanskrit animated movie, Punyakoti. I trained the famous actor Revathy in speaking her Sanskrit dialogues. I am studying for my Bachelors in Arts at Christ University, Bangalore, and am active in the theatre circuit. My elective is Proscenium theatre. I also am assisting my father who is an animation filmmaker in his two productions. I can voice act in Sanskrit, Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam, and English. I know I have a long career ahead of me. When I was 13 years old, I developed a unique style of voice acting for animation and have provided the voice for the main child artist and expressions for over 6 characters in the first Sanskrit animated movie.
Ankita Shrivastava, 26, Live Liver Donor, World Record Holder and Gold Medalist at the World Transplant Games organised by The Olympics Association. Her name is also in the India Book of Records. She is the Executive Producer of Purple Turtle, IP that came from Books and travelled to 29 countries now being Broadcasted by Discovery Kids in Middle East. It's Season 1 is written by 5 Emmy Award Winners and a Co-production between India, Ireland and France. She has 14 Purple Turtle Pre-schools across India and Nepal. Ankita Shrivastava is the Director of MSA Sourcing and Direll Innovations Pvt Ltd running the business of Pre-school Education creating a network of Direct Sellers across the Globe.
Arjun Madhavan leads the strategic and business development efforts at Assemblage Entertainment, India's premier CGI animation studio. He has featured in the Forbes Magazine's 30 Under 30 Asia list in the media and entertainment category and remains focused at building Assemblage into a global media/content vehicle delivering high value CG animation content to international audiences. He oversees the studio and is responsible for its growth. A graduate from London School of Economics, prior to Assemblage, Arjun was an investment banker and private equity professional in London, working at global firms such as Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank and Genel Energy. With an entrepreneurial zeal with unending energy, a people's person and a communicator par excellence, Arjun is quickly establishing himself as a young force in the animation industry in India and globally.
Indranarayan Datta was born and brought up in the small city of Berhampore in West Bengal, India. After completing his Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata, he joined Toonz Weber Academy in 2004. Indra was part of the first batch of One Year Diploma in Animation Film Making course at the Academy. On completing his course, Indra got placement at Toonz Animation. He thus started his journey in the animation industry with Toonz Animation as a layout artist. For Indra, film-making has always been a passion. However, animation is the platform where he re-discovered himself as an artist.
A dedicated and compassionate professional specialized in the field of animation production. Challenges faced have always helped to grow my skill set to access, investigate, and make appropriate decisions that benefit. I am also profoundly grateful to philm CGI and the Directors for having a faith in me.
Energetic, dynamic and creative person offering 14 years of experience developing and directing visionary projects for high profile animation works. I am a people-focused and goal-driven person. A good team-player and a motivational team leader who likes to complete the project within deadline without compromising excellence. Looking back, ever since I can remember, I have spent every moment surrounded by, thinking of and creating elaborate stories in my head. A storyteller at heart, I ended up giving them face by sketching or drawing them out. I am a passionate storyteller! I am driven by the need to tell great stories in the best way possible. And I am fortunate to see my stories being loved across India! Animation and cartoons have always been dear to me. I believe stories have the power to change people’s heart and reach lives to make them better. Emotions make us human and stories keep us human. From early on I have realized that art as a medium will allow me to breat
Executive Director of Epica Studios Pvt Ltd Executive Vice President to Aries Group ( Parent Company) Guest Faculty at ICFAI university Driven with proven leadership experience in Corporate Oversight, P&L management, Strategy, Business Development, Mergers & Acquisitions, bringing close to fifteen years of successful global work experience. A committed leader in quality performances with a sharp eye for detail. An excellent people manager with remarkable leadership & team management skills. Successfully aided companies in implementing joint ventures, acquisitions, company structuring & long term strategies. Worked/travelled extensively around the globe and was placed short and long-term as a part of projects in the US, London- UK, Munich (Germany), Singapore, Dubai (UAE), Bangkok (Thailand) & New Delhi (India). Recognized for achievements in finding joint venture partners, setting up offices in a new territory/ country, building and leading teams, business development, cultiva
Anish Mehta, CEO of Cosmos-Maya, the studio that revolutionized the Indian AVGC industry - When Anish Mehta, a young man of 31 took over the reins as the CEO of Cosmos-Maya (hereafter CM) in 2012, he had his task cut out for him. Coming from a non-filmy background, Anish started as an Accounts Executive in CM in 2003 (the same year he became a Chartered Accountant), and went on to become a Shareholder in CM. His contribution to the AVGC industry through the growth of CM and its ancillary partners across the value-chain has been tremendous. With a clear vision to grow Animation, which was then a ‘Blue Ocean’ in India, Anish Mehta led CM has truly been the microcosm of the growth of the industry, and has created several significant benchmarks, some of which are highlighted ahead.
I have been working as visual effects artist for the past decade during which I have been associated with several memorable projects like Life of Pie and have made a successful transition from being a VFX artist at Rhythm & Hues to being a free lancer and now have my own company. I am passionate about the quality of my projects and like to deliver superior quality and raise the bar for the Indian audience.
I have been working as visual effects artist for the past decade during which I have been associated with several memorable projects like Life of Pie and have made a successful transition from being a VFX artist at Rhythm & Hues to being a free lancer and now have my own company. I am passionate about the quality of my projects and like to deliver superior quality and raise the bar for the Indian audience.
An experienced academician, mentor and guide with over 13 years of teaching and industry experience. Having a Master's degree in finance and an Advanced Diploma in 3D Animation affiliated from the University of Cambridge and a Certified MESC Trainer. A researcher with over 13 research publications and authored a book and four study materials for University. Has won various awards including Distinguished Teacher Award by MTC Global Award for Excellence – 2020, Young Faculty Award at Fifth Higher Education Summit Cum Eleventh Rashtriya Shiksha Gaurav Puraskar Ceremony, Best Young HOD of the Year Award (Below 40 Years), Young Researcher Award, Golden Pixel Award - 19 - Art/Animation Teacher, Best Academician of the Year and an Honorary Doctorate in the field of Multimedia to name a few. Members of Editorial, Advisory and Reviewer Board for International Journal of Engineering Research Science and Management and a Member of IJAHLS Board of Referees.
I am Amit Srivastav and heading Finance & Admin since foundation day of the Digitoonz.
I am an Animation Designer, Strategist and Educator. Despite being a Mechanical Engineering scholar, I have always been creatively inclined and actively participated in art, music and theatre. I worked with Bajaj Auto and Larson & Toubro prior to my Masters in Animation Film Design from The National Institute of Design (NID). I co-founded Girgit Studios, an Animation Design Studio with my batchmates Anuj and Avinash from NID in 2011. I have directed/produced over 110 Short animation design projects ranging from TVCs, Short films, Promo Films, TV Show packaging, Branding & Concept videos, Storyboarding for Feature Films, App & games, campaign design etc. The projects transcended boundaries of execution medium be it 2D, 3D, Stop Motion animation or Live Motion. Short films led by me have received over 15 awards and 75 official selections at prestigious international film festivals like Anima-Mundi Brazil, Warsaw Film Festival Poland, Stuttgart film festival Germany and such.
Animation professional with over 10 yrs of experience in writing, creating and directing shows which aired on multiple networks. I am a storyteller who relishes making wonderful stories for kids with humour, action, fantasy, spectacle and good values. Completely Indian at heart and takes pride in the rich legacy of our wonderful country and the amazing variety and nuances it offers to storytellers.
12+ years experience in CG Animation and VFX Production Management ? Strategic scheduling, bidding, tracking/reporting, financial forecasting and reconciling ? Working closely with Supervisors and Leads to establish workflows and maximize communication ? Identifying the creative, technical and production challenges and needs of a project ? Strong leadership skills while fostering a creative and supportive environment ? Attending to key talent, team building, and performance development ? Resource allocation, staffing and evaluating strengths to maximize team performance ? Vetting, contracting and managing outsource vendors ? Experience in start-ups, small and large team environments
Person with a can do attitude and never backed off from any challenges. Continuously producing quality product to client satisfaction, has raised the bars of the company and self.
With over 20 years of experience, I have managed and delivered several projects across the world. I have been the Executive producer and head of Studio for VF/CGI films with Bioware (US), Square Enix (Japan), Dice (Belgium), Meraas (UAE), Movie Park Germany as well as projects in Bollywood. I have been single handedly instrumental in setting up production studios in US, Dubai, Japan and India. Apart from delivering over 30 mins of photo real Final Fantasy feature for SQEX, I have been the EP for all cinematic and gaming production for the theme parks in the UAE, Mission Mangal (the first space movie from Bollywood) as well as delivering The Misfits (the most anticipated Hollywood flick of 2020). I'm currently in the production of the first ever Super Hero IP (of the likes of Marvel/DC) from Bollywood, concept embryo, written by self.
Deepak's role as a Director of Business Operations is well suited to his enterprising nature, broad business knowledge, and strong interpersonal and communications skills with a very down-to-earth personality. Having worked and studied in London, and assumed leadership roles in several multinational companies in India, Deepak has a strong bi-cultural leadership style. He is well adapted to the business culture and norms of the West, while also having the ground level knowledge of developing and growing organizations in India. Prior to BOT VFX, Deepak worked at Sony Pictures Imageworks India (formerly FrameFlow), where he oversaw the business operations for the studio. The scope of his responsibilities ranged from finance and accounting, to HR and recruiting, to regulatory compliance, procurement, marketing and PR, and due diligence support. Deepak was instrumental in ramping up the team and exceeded more than 3.5X growth within the year. His prior business experience inclu
Myself Sujith Subramanian. I've been in the industry since 2005. Now working as CG Show Supervisor at Philmcgi, also heading the Unreal Engine CG Department here. After my degree in BSc Electronics and Telecommunication, Just because of my passion for animation I had joined a course in 2D and 3D Animation at Toonz Animation Academy. After that, I spent my first 3 years as an artist at a Gaming studio called Section08 Studios, when their operation completely from India changed the company name to AntimaFX and I was more of a CG Generalist there. I do Animation, Texturing, lighting, rigging and also modelling when needed. Being the only artist in the studio(rest all are Game Programmers) I felt the need to expand my knowledge, so I started thinking I need to focus on a particular area. But I don't want to think on it too much because from the start itself I was passionate about Animating Characters. So I started looking at CG Animation more seriously and started to Concentrate on t
I was in 2nd year of my engineering course when I realized that I want to be in the film making business. That when I did my animation and VFX course. I love bringing the scripts to reality and it feels good to be a part of that magic. I am a hard-working and dedicated person when it come to my work. I am passionate about my work. I am Thankful for philmCGI and the directors for giving me the opportunity.
Over the last 18 years, Sohini's passion for content and production has driven her to hone her creative, digital & production skills and be at the top of her game.Her creative fix comes from helping companies give life to new brands, or imaginatively express existing brands. Providing great ROI to her clients is the endgame, and she can proudly say that every one of them has benefited monetarily from her work. Her experience is both extensive and non-traditional, from daily operational management to big-picture planning. She is no longer happy just producing content, her kick comes from the entire creative process - right from innovative ideating to planning, producing, leading and finally breathing life into the idea. At the end of it all, she is at her happiest when she is creating and producing unique work that bypasses the brain's radar and goes straight to the heart. She is privileged to lead a very talented team of designers and artists through the maze of creatives, production and post VFX. Together, they bring brands to life through physical spaces, products, systems, experiences and communications, putting out quality work on tight deadlines every time. She also does a host of other leadership/management things to expand her horizons: inspire her teams, mentor and coach, hire people who are smarter than her, take on speaking engagements, develop new business-you get the drift. Sohini takes on every challenge with delight and an entrepreneurial spirit. She is an adventurer, a thrill-seeker, a believer in turning ideas into reality and creating a positive impact on the world! She is even exploring her author side of life and has just launched her book - Black India - Season 1
Parth Shah is a Performance Capture Evangelist, Visual Effects Society Member, and a Director at Centroid India. He was instrumental in setting up Centroid India's Mumbai studio, and now supervises the studios' performance capture, virtual production, and previs services. Although still an industry 'Young Gun', Parth has a passionate understanding of digital performance. He has gained a wealth of experience working across Film VFX, Games, and television, and already has an impressive list of credits to his name. Parth has been a speaker and also on the panel for many Indian Conferences - Guest Lecture for Educational institutes like Jain University (iNurture), VEDA, Speaker on The Content Hub by AnimationXpress (2020), VFX Summit by IndiaJoy (2019), GAFX (2019), GAFX (2017), Animation Xpress SPARK Connect, Amity University Guest Lecture, ISDI Eye Myth Festival, Unity India 1st Developer Day and Reliance Animation School.
Sreyans is a co-founder of BOT and heads its India operations, the unit where all of the BOT's production activity happens with about 500 team members. His understanding of the creative process, strong operational discipline, and exceptional interpersonal skills make him uniquely qualified to lead the operation. Most importantly, Sreyans exudes a "can-do" attitude and tenacity that sets a great tone and example for the larger team. From an early age, Sreyans showed strong creative leanings and entrepreneurial drive by starting creative design companies and securing premier clients and projects. Whether it's for the print or the production arena, clients are invariably impressed with his tenacity and project management skills. Most of all, clients appreciate his ability to get the project done on-time and within budget. Prior to co-founding BOT VFX, Sreyans worked at Sony Pictures Imageworks India as a Project Head, where he oversaw the construction of a new state-of-the-art production facility for the studio, in addition to managing several other production projects. Sreyans holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Visual Communication from the University of Madras where he holds one of the University's highest academic rankings. He is also a Gold Medalist at the college and was awarded the "Best Outgoing Student" by the Visual Communication Department. When Sreyans isn't managing the production operations, he takes time out to pursue adventure sports, admire nature and art, or just whip up new recipes. Sreyans lives in Chennai, India.
Anant Roongta, a third generation entrepreneur at Famous Studios, is taking forth the legacy set by his respected Grandfather and Father. From an early age, Anant has been closely witnessing content manifestations in the audio-visual industry. He has nurtured his skill sets well enough to be equipped to manage a large chunk of the operations of the Famous Studios, while also taking the brand to newer heights. He took complete charge of the business early 2018. Anant has maintained a strong focus towards introducing innovative technologies, in order to add new age relevance to offerings at Famous Studios. He has spearheaded new service offerings at the studio such as Slow-Mo videos, Motion Capture technology among the many others. He is determined and is dedicatedly working towards expanding their creative studios and visual effects facilities. Anant has completed his Masters in Entrepreneurship from Aston University, UK.
I am an entrepreneur by nature. Growing up, I was a rebellious child & valued freedom of most which seeded my passion of having my own business. I have a commerce background but science & arts always enthralled me. While applying for my CA articleship, I came across 3Dprinting. I was 19 & I got goose bumps! It was the same technology that had bewildered me at the age of 8 while watching Jurassic Park 3. I can never forget the scene where they manufactured the vocal cords of a Raptor out of thin air. So was the end of 11 year old curiosity and start of something new. Through 3DP, I got introduced to 3D visualization in 2014. Freedom to create anything virtually fascinated me. What fascinated me even more was the intricacy of human form, how challenging it was to recreate digitally. This fascination led to I-C-E Studios… I love tech that can change the world which led me to start an AI company & invest in a mobility company. Being a foodie, I will put truffle on anything. Born in the 9
Sudhanshu Gupta is the COO of Paytm First Games and has been leading Paytm's gaming foray for the last 2 years. He has over 14 years of professional experience of which 10 of those he has spent in the biggest internet start-ups in India i.e. Flipkart and Paytm. During this time, he has launched and grown multiple products and businesses across e-commerce, payments, content and now mobile gaming. Under his leadership, Paytm First Games has successfully emerged as one of the highest user-engagement platforms with a total user base of over 60 million. An alumnus of MDI Gurgaon and St. Stephen's College, Sudhanshu is accelerating the growth of the company and is focussed on making it the leader of the Indian gaming industry.
I'm Sivaneswaran Sivanandy, an Indian gamer, Entrepreneur popularly known for Skyesports, a gaming event organization. I'm the founder of Skytous Game studio, Skyesports and Sky Cinemas. I built 'SkyTou Studios' in 2015, which builds and develops Hyper casual mobile games. My 2nd company is Skyesports, which is one of the biggest esports org in India.
Backed by Google Indie Games Accelerator, Chirag claims to be an inter-dimensional Game Designer with a zeal to craft experimental & innovative experiences. Recently, Chirag acquired the 'Indie Game of the Year' award at India GDC 2019 for the game 'Possessions', which is the first game from India to launch on Apple Arcade as part of their launch catalogue.
Having Started off as one of the first gaming content creators and livestreamers in the country, Ishaan transitioned to consulting with leading brands like NVIDIA, LG, Dell, ZOTAC and Lenovo before co-founding Basik Marketing, a specialized gaming and esports firm. Today he has helped develop some of the most exciting esports events and leagues in the country on their platform, The Esports Club.
A computer graduate started as a Game designer with few big gaming companies in India namely Indiagames, Games2win and Hungama before setting up my own venture called underDOGS! Over 13 years experience in gaming and developed over 200 games so far for clients across globe and self. Gamer | Product Guy | Design Specialist | Public Speaker | Motivator Strong expertise in Game Design, Production and Business, spearheading underDOGS for last 9 years. Started single handedly, grown the company to around 15 people now with a strong brand presence by consistently creating quality products, helping community and winning more than 9 awards. Also have a strong reach in the Indian Gaming community due to his digital presence, community building and regular content creation..
Tejas is an industry-leading expert in the games industry who has led teams and games played by millions of daily users, generating millions of dollars in revenue. He takes an active part in the Indian game development ecosystem, mentoring and helping studios build games of the highest quality and showcasing 'what good looks like.' Since leaving EA as a technical director, he runs a boutique games studio QYJO and is part of the team that runs the India Games Developer Conference. He is also a mentor for India Accelerator, India's only GAN partnered accelerator.
Responsible for the growth of brand within the India subcontinent region Head the various revenue initiatives and overall operations for the mobile esports teams across all tittles Launch the Fnatic Gear and Apparel business in India and build India's best gaming facility
Passionate gamer with over 10 years of experience in crafting games.
I am Raman Chopra and i have been streaming since 4 years and on youtube making some content since 21st july 2010 right now i am a brand ambassador of Asus Rog and Jbl partnered streamer
I am an engineer by profession and a passionate and hardworking entrepreneur at heart who believes gaming and esports can be a viable career option for India and all my efforts are currently dedicated to address this. I stumbled upon this career path during my early days in undergrad college when we were exploring emerging markets during that time. I followed a KPMG report that marked esports and gaming as one of the most booming industries in the country around 2017 and I was instantly hooked to the idea of being a part of the community. As of today, we (Trinity Gaming) have successfully executed over 20 campaigns during which we have managed to engage an average of at least a million people during every project. During my free time, I like to read non-fiction and stay updated with the world. Shark Tank is my favourite television show and I draw inspiration from the young entrepreneurs who are there for the hustle! I actively follow Indian politics and try to understand and adapt to how the system works in the country. All in all, I am an outgoing person who likes to network actively and try to be a part of as many lives as possible. My ultimate goal in life is to make the world a better place for everyone to live in while being as ambitious as possible!
I am the Founder and CEO of TBS Planet Comics. I am 2012 Silver Medalist from IIT Roorkee (B.Tech and M.Tech Dual degree Program), 2011 Limca World Record Holder for hand-drawing world's largest political map. Worked at Flipkart from 2012-15 and Xiaomi from 2015-16 where I was leading all non-mobile phone categories. Started TBS Planet Comics in 2016 with first comic "Ved". Also author of "Get Corporated before you get Fired!" novel.
While I'm your friendly neighbourhood Engineering-MBA guy, I always had my eye set on comics. I think that's true ever since my 9-year old eyes saw the glaring cover of the cult TinTin book "The Red Lotus". Ever since, it's been a long winding journey to get into a role that enables me to professionally contribute to the Indian pop-culture industry.
Kuriakose is a writer, designer, film-maker and stand-up comic who has been with Amar Chitra Katha for nearly six years now. A graduate of St. Stephen's College, New Delhi, and FTII, Pune, Kuriakose started out as a journalist with brands like Network18, Deccan Chronicle and Malayala Manorama, before dabbling in films and advertising, eventually finding his niche at Amar Chitra Katha telling stories through various mediums.
Arunabh Kumar, from the small town of Muzaffarpur in Bihar is an IIT Graduate, who failed in the 1st attempt in IIT –JEE because of wasting too much time, reading comic books on rent, in Kota. He quit his good life post IIT, and chose to follow his passion for storytelling. He is considered a pioneer of Digital Content in India and founded TVF & created Pitchers- India's highest rated show. He believes in balancing art & science of Creativity. With Indusverse Comic Books, he aims to bring the culture of comic-books in mainstream by empowering Writers & Graphic Artists of India. Within 6 months of the launch of its 1st edition, Indusverse won 4 awards at ComicCon India 2020, including Silver in Best Writing & Bronze in Comic book of the year. His book Outrage has been reviewed by Chuck Dixon, the creator of Bane, Dark Knights & other DC titles as "Masterful comic book storytelling"while another book "Stunt" has been hailed as "completely brilliant" by Mark Millar, currently dubbed as t
Currently I head the Editorial department of Tinkle at Amar Chitra Katha. Over the years I have at various times ideated, plotted and scripted original stories of fiction; researched, written and edited features; conceived new comics characters; given a fresh look to an existing magazine/book, as well as commissioned, curated and put together magazines and books from the ground up. In the course of this journey I have been a writer/sub-editor at Navneet Publications for 4 years, an assistant editor at Tinkle (India's most popular English-language monthly comics magazine for children) over 4 years and then took over as the magazine's Editor, in 2011.
I am a 2d animation professional from Mumbai with a penchant of working on anime style art & also run The Beast Legion, India's first mnga style webcomic series for the last 10 years. Over my experience of 9 years I've worked with studios but now solely focus on short freelance animation projects for clients abroad.