Design Course
The Story of Indian Animation
History and Journey so far
by
Sekhar Mukherjee
Sekhar Mukherjee
Prof. Sekhar Mukherjee is an alumnus of NID Ahmedabad, where he also acted as a senior faculty of communication design from 2002 to 2018. As a commerce graduate, he decided to pursue his passion for the profession and started his career being a newspaper cartoonist, illustrator and info-graphic artist for the Economic Times, Kolkata. Afterwhich, he joined NID to study Animation Film Design in 1992. In 2000, he trained the first 2D animation studio in Dhaka, Bangladesh, which is one of his most cherished projects to date. From 2002, for the next 12 years, he headed the Animation Department at NID Ahmedabad. He was also the chairman of NID Film Club and the Artistic Founder Director of the iconic Chitrakatha event-A biennial International Student Animation Festival since 2007.
