Datsi School for Storytellers

Our Virtual Q&A Session has been rescheduled to 1 August at 3:00 PM, giving you even more time to reserve your spot.

If you're curious about building a career in animation, filmmaking, storyboarding, lighting or texturing, this is your opportunity to hear directly from industry professionals and ask the questions that matter.

✨ Learn what studios look for.
✨ Understand the real production pipeline.
✨ Get career guidance from professionals working in the industry.

🎙 Featuring
Michael Joseph, Suresh EC, Shine Bose, Anup G John, Sutosom C, Shabnam B and more.

📅 1 August 2026
🕒 3:00 PM IST
💻 Live Online
🎟 Free Registration

🔗 Register through the link in our bio.

We'll see you on 1 August!

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Struggling to Start A Career In Animation ?

Join our FREE Virtual Q&A Session and get real answers from industry professionals working across animation, filmmaking, storyboarding, lighting and texturing.

Whether you're a student, aspiring artist, or someone exploring creative careers, bring your questions and learn directly from experts.

Featured Speakers:

✨ Michael Joseph – Director, DATSI School for Storytellers
✨ Suresh EC – Head, Animation
✨ Shine Bose – Senior Storyboard Artist/ Faculty
✨ Anup G John –Senior Texturing Artist/ Faculty
✨ Sutosom Chakraborty – Lighting Artist / Faculty
✨ Shabnam B – Head, HR & Operations at Zebu Animation Studios

📅 25 July 2026 🕒 3:00 PM 💻 Live Online 🎟️ FREE Registration

🔗 Register now through the link in our bio!

Tag a friend who's planning a career in animation.

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Every great storyteller has a bookshelf that shapes the way they think.

Behind every memorable film, animation, and visual story is a creator who never stopped learning. If you're serious about building a career in animation, filmmaking, or visual storytelling, these five books deserve a place on your reading list.

From The Illusion of Life and The Animator's Survival Kit to Framed Ink, The Visual Story, and Directing the Story, each book offers timeless lessons in animation principles, cinematic composition, visual language, staging, and storytelling. They're not just books to read. They're books to revisit throughout your creative journey.

Which one have you already read, and which one are you adding to your collection next? Tell us in the comments.



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What happens when storytelling steps off the page and onto the stage?

At DATSI School for Storytellers, our students brought Beyond the Land of Hattamala to life through a vibrant theatrical performance, exploring the timeless satire of Badal Sircar. Following the journey of Kenna and Becha through a strange and thought-provoking world, the play challenged ideas of greed, materialism, and the values that shape society.

Conducted as part of a Theatre Workshop by Mr. Abraham T. Chacko from , the experience encouraged students to think, perform, collaborate, and connect with storytelling beyond the screen. A reminder that every great storyteller begins by understanding people, emotions, and the world around them.



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Admissions are now open for our September 2026 Batch.

Every great storyteller starts with a single step. If you've been waiting for the right time to build a career in animation, this is your moment.

At Datsi School for Storytellers, you'll learn through a studio-inspired environment, be mentored by industry professionals, and develop the skills needed for today's creative industry.

📚 Choose your path:

• Mastering Animation in Maya
• Mastering Animation in Unreal
• Unreal for Lighting Artists
• Texturing & Look Development
• Storyboarding

Whether you're taking your first step or looking to sharpen your creative skills, we're here to help you grow.

🔗 Tap the link in our bio to explore the programs and apply.



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How does a studio handle thousands of assets, shots, and iterations without slowing down production?

At our recent Circle Time session, students had the opportunity to learn from Joseph Tom .josephtom_ , Senior Pipeline & Technical Director at Sony Pictures Image Works , as he explored the role of Python scripting and automation in modern animation and VFX pipelines.

From building small tools to streamlining repetitive tasks, the session offered valuable insights into the technical systems that power large-scale productions. More importantly, it sparked conversations, questions, and curiosity among students eager to understand how creativity and technology work together behind the scenes.



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A room full of ideas, colours, questions, and imagination.

Last week at the DATSI campus, more than 20 young participants stepped into a world of storytelling, animation, drawing, movement, and creative exploration through the Summer Camp experience.

Some arrived quietly. Some arrived curious. But somewhere between sketches, stories, laughter, and collaboration, the room slowly transformed into a space filled with creators discovering new ways to imagine and express.

A beautiful reminder that creativity begins when children are simply given the space to explore.

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From Script to Screen with

A special session on production design, visual development and the craft of turning ideas into cinematic worlds.

Rupali took our students and artists through the journey of how stories move from paper to image, and from image to screen, through observation, references, mood, scale, space, culture, colour and visual intent.

A beautiful reminder that great images are not just made.
They are thought through.

Thank you, Rupali Gatti, for sharing your process with such generosity.

Grateful to and KINFRA Film & Video Park, Trivandrum, for providing the space for this session.



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