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About Reliance Animation Academy Ultadanga

17+ years of building India's animation, VFX, and creative media workforce — one of the few animation institute in kolkata backed by india's largest entertainment conglomerates.

One of the few academies backed by its own production house

India's Leading VFX & Animation Institute

Reliance Animation Academy, a division of Reliance Animation Studios part of Reliance Entertainment group, one of India's most prolific film, television, animation, and gaming conglomerates. The group has produced and distributed hundreds of blockbuster films, animated series, and digital content.

This means our students don't just study from textbooks — they learn from the people who make the films you watch. Studio pipelines, real briefs, and production-grade tools are part of everyday classroom life at Reliance Animation Academy Ultadanga.

Since 2009, the Academy has grown to 30+ centres across India, placing over10,000 alumni in the animation, VFX, gaming, and media industries.

Reliance Animation

Reliance Animation Studios

Reliance Animation

Reliance Animation is an original IP production company established in 2005 with a vision to create fresh content and impeccable execution, bringing the best of both worlds together.

Reliance Animation is an award-winning studio in partnership with noted filmmaker ROHIT SHETTY, best known for delivering IP-driven animation content like Little Singham, Golmaal Jr., Little Krishna, and Smashing Simmba.

Little Krishna was its first 3D production from India, written by Jeffrey Scott, followed by one of the greatest stories ever told – 'Krishna aur Kans,' a theatrical spectacle released in August 2012. Reliance Animation produced an animated version of India’s first superhero, 'Shaktimaan.' The studio parallelly worked on some service projects like Astra Force, Ting Tong, Keymon Ache, Daduji, Gaju Bhai, and Tik Tak Tail, to name a few.

The studio takes pride in producing 'The Davincibles' show, which was a co-production with Moonscoop US and Neo Network. With creative energies and exemplary execution coming together, the team recently delivered a harmony show, 'The Twisted Timeline of Sammy & Raj,' which is a co-production between Nick US and Nick India.

The studio has won many international and domestic awards and accolades for its aforementioned creations. Little Singham and Golmaal Jr. are among the leading IPs in India and are creating records across platforms. Both have become very popular among kids in a short time. Little Singham is aired on Pogo India as well as on Amazon Prime and Jio TV., while Golmal Jr- is aired on Nickelodeon Sonic and Jio Hotstar.

Reliance Entertainment

Reliance Entertainment

Reliance Entertainment, the only 100% Indian-owned corporate player in the filmed entertainment, is a place where commerce meets art, blockbusters meet meaningful cinema, Bollywood & Hollywood meet Indian regional cinema and where genres like drama and comedy meet horror and romance.

Reliance Entertainment has an industry acknowledged Joint Venture business model, wherein creative filmmakers come on-board as JV partners and jointly share the IPR ownership and its rewards. Once on-board, the filmmaker gets to make all the films within his or her JV company. While the filmmakers oversee the creative development and production, they are ably supported by the Reliance infrastructure in marketing, distribution, syndication and international sales.

With 300+ commercially and critically acclaimed movies in its portfolio, Reliance Entertainment has been distributing and syndicating films across India and 100+ countries. The movies and the people associated with Reliance Entertainment have won appreciation from fans and critics alike. Besides winning 28 National Awards, our films have premiered at some of the most prestigious film festivals around the world.

Incorporated in 2016, Rohit Shetty Picturez LLP is a Reliance Entertainment joint venture with film director, producer and television personality Rohit Shetty. YNOT Studios is a joint venture between producer S. Sashikanth and Reliance Entertainment. In 2017, Reliance Entertainment joined Global Cinemas LLP as an equity partner with a focus to expand the theatrical distribution business into the Southern Indian markets. In 2018, Reliance Entertainment and filmmaker Imtiaz Ali partnered to form Window Seat Films LLP, a joint venture for production of movies.

Reliance Games

Reliance Games

Reliance Games a leading publisher, developer of mobile games and block buster hits include Real Steel, Real Steel World Robot Boxing, Pacific Rim, & a slew of exciting mobile games developed in association with Hollywood Studios such as Dreamworks, Sony Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Columbia Pictures and Warner Bros.

With currently 8 million registered gamers, Reliance Games is not only India's largest online casual gaming site but also amongst the top 5. Reliance Games is India's largest gaming company that addresses the complete value chain of Digital Gaming sites in the world in terms of traffic and registered users. With more than 10 million unique registered users, it is bigger in India than Yahoo games or miniclip.com.

Reliance Games is the only portal in the world that offers games across all genres be it single-player, multi-player, downloadable games, kids games, girl games and cricket games. In addition to the above Reliance has a wap site called Reliance Games which is world's first Multiplayer platform for feature phones.

It offers over 1200 free games and boasts of over 2 million unique visitors every single month. Reliance Games is synonymous to the mobile social community centre because of its huge entertainment, gaming and other offerings.

Reliance Games works closely with most of the leading global gaming and entertainment players such as Microsoft, Popcap, Boonty, Playfirst, Universal Studios, Shanda, Cartoon Network, THQ, iPlay, Oberon, come2play, Hands-On etc.

Our Journey

Global Industry Presence & Milestones

2009

Academy Founded

Reliance Animation Academy established as a training division of Reliance Animation Studios, launching its first centre in Mumbai.

2012

Pan-India Expansion

Expanded to 20+ cities including Kolkata, Chennai, Hyderabad, and Bangalore — bringing studio-quality education to tier-2 markets.

2017

University Affiliations Secured

Programs formally affiliated with recognised Indian universities, enabling students to earn dual qualifications — industry certificate + degree.

2021 - 2024

AI Curriculum Integration

One of the First Indian animation academies to formally integrate AI tools (Midjourney, Sora, AI Film Making) into the core curriculum.

2025

Best Animation Institute Award

Recognised as Best Animation & VFX Institute of 2025 by Academic Insights. Source: https://awards.theacademicinsights.com/; https://theacademicinsights.com/reliance-animation-academy/

A Message from Our Leadership

Vision for Creative India

"India has one of the world's fastest-growing animation and VFX industries. At Reliance Animation Academy, our mission is simple: to ensure every talented young person from Kolkata, from Ultadanga, from every corner of India — has access to the same world-class education that drives blockbuster films and hit games. We don't just teach skills; we build careers."

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Reliance Animation Academy Leadership

Reliance Animation Academy, India

Vision

To be India's most impactful creative media education institution — placing graduates in every major animation, VFX, and gaming studio globally.

Mission

Deliver industry-aligned, AI-integrated creative education that transforms students into sought-after professionals — with real studio projects and 100% placement support.

Values

Excellence, innovation, inclusion — we believe every student deserves a world-class creative education, regardless of background, with mentorship that never stops.

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