‘Animation industry lacks creativity’

The Indian animation industries leave no room for animation film-making and creativity as most of the students are only trained in software skills,necessary to get jobs in firms that handle work outsourced from foreign countries,one of India’s senior-most animators has said on Wednesday.

Professor IS Mathur,founder of National Institute of Design’s animation programme back in the mid-1960s,said,“This is a part of a shift from value-based education to need-based education”,gripping the country’s education sector,terming it “intellectual colonization.”

Mathur was delivering a lecture titled “History of Animation Education at NID and beyond” in the first day of NID’s biennial International Animation Festival,Chitrakatha 2011,on Wednesday.