Zee Institute of Creative Art - ZICA

About Zee Institute of Creative Art - ZICA

India's Premier Classical & Digital Animation Institute

Zee Institute of Creative Art - ZICA is the nation's first full-fledged Classical and Digital Animation Training Academy that trains youth in classical 2D and modern 3D animation. The past seventeen years has seen the institute nurture some of the brightest talents in the world of animation. The institute has adopted a novel training style and is focused entirely on creating a stimulating environment for its students.

"Zee Institute of Creative Art, with its state-of-the-art infrastructure, gives practical training in 2D Animation, 3D Animation, Visual Effects & Gaming, covering the stages of visualization, Pre-production, production and post-production. At ZICA, a lot of emphasis is laid on the principles of art and design and fundamentals of classical animation, while extracting the same knowledge to computer based Digital animation. Students are also assured of creative exposure with a healthy mix of theory and practical sessions, delivered with the right amalgamation of Art & technology, under the supervision of in-house experienced faculties and industry experts from India and abroad. ZICA's Training Studio is equipped with high end animation tools, 2D animation facilities, 3D software, Visual FX Labs and imaging technologies. After every semester, a well laid out assessment procedure ensures the student's acceptability as dignified professionals in the world of animation.

ZICA propagates the inherent artistic and aesthetic skills in each student, rather than only the software, which keeps on upgrading from time to time.

Today ZICA, with over 30 centres in more than 15 major cities including Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Pune, Lucknow, Chandigarh, Bhubneshwar, Ahmedabad etc. emerges as young India's chosen partner to turn passion into profession.

ZICA Association

"Essel Group" of Companies, founded in 1976, is a diversified conglomerate with interests in Media, Packaging, Amusement Parks, Entertainment and Education among others. It's portfolio includes some of the most renowned brands in India such as Zee TV and other allied channels, Dish TV, Siticable, Fun Republic, Esselworld, Playwin and Kidzee. Zee has always endeavoured to establish a 'connect factor' among Indians worldwide to their culture, and provide them with the best form of Indian entertainment.

Infrastructure

ZICA boasts of a state of the art infrastructure with world class facilities that include cutting edge animation tools, 2D animation facilities, 3D software and Visual FX Labs. Facilities include

2D Infrastructure

It is well designed to fit in custom made Cell Animation tables for each student, line test machine, spacious lecture halls and sketching area, lectures and workshops from renowned faculties and studio experts conducted during the course of sessions.

3D Infrastructure

Advanced digital labs installed with the latest workstations. Students are trained using high end software's like Autodesk Maya for 3D Animations Fusion, Nuke for compositing as parts of the course curriculum to give our students the winning edge.