Our Team

Abid Shaikh is a stalwart in the animation industry with a career spanning over 12 years. In this time, he has donned many caps including that of an animation artist, rigging artist, and even a role where he helped educate production staff.

Abid’s ambit of work capabilities includes Maya, Motion Builder, Vicon, and Production Manager. Abid has two 3D movies (Chandarani …A Dream to Reality and Sonam …Aur Saath Ajube) under his belt as a technical lead and project manager. Over time, he also amassed a prowess for game programming and development, and applies his history with 3D in these facets of video game creation.

His diversity and longevity in the industry make him the perfect man to assume the mantle of Department of Game Art, Design and Development.

Bratati has completed her BCA & MCA from West Bengal University of Technology. She has earlier worked with Infoway India, Institute for Quality Skill Training & ICAT Design & Media College as a lecturer.

As an artist, Sanjita Shetye is passionate about making moving images. She graduated from Srishti Institute of Art, Design, and Technology with her master's degree in Animation and Virtual Effects. She utilises various mediums in her art practices, including conventional and digital methods.

She started out her career in the arts while pursuing her Bachelor's in Fine Art, from Goa College of Art. Since then, she has worked on a variety of freelance art projects, including wall murals, paintings, caricatures, Illustrations, graphic designs, motion graphics, and video edits, among others.

In the past, she has worked for an advertising agency where she was responsible for creating video content. She also has worked with a children’s book writer for illustrating the story for children’s book.

Mrunal has been working in the VFX industry for 7 years.

She has worked with studios like deluxe and red chillies and is expert in roto, paint and compositing. Having worked on various movies like Avengers, Jurassic world and many more she loves teaching and has a teaching experience of 4 years.

Rahul has more than ten years of experience in Digital Media & Advertising, Visual Effects Artist, Professional Educator and handling department. He has been teaching various graphic & Visual effects software and working on it to create designs and VFX work. He has specialized in Matchmove, Dynamics and Compositing. In addition, he has done PGDM in Media and advertising. He likes exploring places, listening to music, being a movie buff and occasionally reading books. Interested more in the tech world and like to be updated with the time in all ways.

Atharva is a Hindustani Classical vocalist, music producer, a music recording and mixing engineer and a sound designer. He has worked on various regional films as sound editor, sound designer and also has experience of working as a recording and mixing engineer with commercial and independent music. Apart from this, he has also been a part of the advertisement industry and has worked with some of the major brands like Google India, Facebook, Amazon, Garnier, Skoda, Burgerking, Parle and others.

Salil brings 6+ years of experience with a Postgraduate Diploma in Game Designing and a Bachelors in Animation and Multimedia. Ranging from being a Game Designer & a 3D Artist, he has multiple exposure and experience in teaching and Game Production house which brings in a unique combination of perspectives from both supply and demand side of the industry.

He has proficiency in multiple software used in-game and film industry. He is still fulfilling his thirst for learning by teaching and bringing out the best in his students.

With over a decade spent in the field of pro-audio Johnston has collected vast amounts of knowledge and experience both as a touring and a studio engineer. Some of his noted work can be seen on Vir Das- Abroad Understanding (Netflix special) Vir Das'- Jestination Unknown (Amazon Prime Video), Vir Das'- For India (Netflix Special). Apart from this, he is touring as the monitor engineer for artists like Neeti Mohan and Shamali Kholgade. He is also the FOH engineer for Vir Das' Comedy Rock band Alien Chutney. Johnston has also worked with several well known Indie and Bollywood artists, touring all over India and abroad, these include Hardy Sandhu, Monali Thakur, Amit Mishra, Maati Baani, Mame Khan and Neeraj Arya's Kabir Cafe etc.

When not on tour Johnston works as a studio mixing engineer and has recorded and mixed several indie musicians, these include award-winning tracks for Raman Iyer, Atkan Mathan, Hour Glass Inversion, Clynton Fernandes, projects for Sofar Sounds Pune. He has been a consultant engineer at multiple studios around Pune.

Arindam brings with him a professional experience of more than 12 years in the animation industry. His expertise is in Post Production and Academics and has an extensive knowledge in CG/ VFX/ Stereo/ Motion Graphics Compositing as well as in Quality control for VFX movies.

After Graduation, Arindam took specialization in Digital Film Making and VFX from Arena, Mumbai, and started his job as generalist in TSA Event Management Company. Later he joined studios like Prime Focus, Prana Studios, MEL Studios, Stereo D, Network 18, and Redchillies (VFX).

He has been part of the academics from past 3 years and has worked with various institutes and colleges like Arena Multimedia, MAAC, and Gujarat University.

Himanshu is a graduate from Himgiri ZEE University, where he received a degree in B.Sc. in Animation and VFX.

After graduating Himanshu joined VFX training institution - MAAC as VFX faculty. He has worked with various other brands like Reliance Education, DQ School of Visual Art, ARK Infosolution and ZEE Media.

Due to this dedication and passion towards the field of VFX and Gaming, he was brought up to a lot of exposure from the tech giants like an Augmented app where he worked as a 3D modeller, Amazon Australia for 3d modelling and several E-learning templates.

During this period he also visited London, to study, polish, and learn even more techniques of core Compositing. His list of satisfied clients includes Cinesite (A London based VFX Production House), Royal College of Art (London) and many more.

Kshitija has done her engineering in Information Technology and M. Sc. In Media and Communication studies with Media Research as major subject from Savitribai Phule Pune University. She has worked as a researcher in media organizations for a couple of years in Mumbai. She has also worked as a freelance market researcher and a social media marketing consultant. She is passionate about academics and she looks forward to pursuing a PhD in Media Studies. Her goal is to become an honoured academician.

Roger Walker comes to SeamEDU with his experience working with different international brands in the audio industry.

Roger is a Java programmer, not long after discovering a love for music composition & post-production audio. He decided to pursue a degree in Audio Production from SAE - Dubai. Worked on major projects for a performing arts theatre in Dubai, bringing his creativity to life on stage; then moved to Singapore as the Creative Manager handling his very own tech-team in live-sound and post-production for local and international bands performing for Montreux Jazz Festivals - Switzerland.

Ever since 2019, he has also been lecturing students. He brings his knowledge of the industry to every classroom. Taking strides to improve his own skills.

In his current position, he oversees the course, facilities, schedules, and lectures. He strives to facilitate students learning in a comfortable and proactive environment where the quality of education is the priority.

As an audio engineer, he actively records for local artists and bands. He is also an avid musician and if you don't see him on campus, you can find him performing on a stage.

Jamie D silva is a location sound mixer and engineer based in Bangalore. He has worked in the kannada Film Industry for over 8 years doing location sound recording and mixing, sound editing and mixing. He studied audio engineering at SAE Chennai and thereafter moved to Bangalore to introduce location sound to young film-makers. Over the past 8 years, he has worked on a number of Kannada and Tulu feature films which are considered benchmarks in the Industry. He has also worked extensively with documentary film and short film makers. Some of the films he has worked on are - Arishadvarga (2019), Paddayi - Tulu Feature (2018), Shuddhi (2017), Rooting for Roona - Docu (2018).

Hitansu Patnaik is an established music producer & arranger, composer, multi-instrumentalists, mixing engineer and vocalist with over 8+ years of industry experience in the music industry. He began his career as a Pianist, percussionist and Vocalist. The moment he has completed his B.Tech and Sound Engineering, he then started getting opportunities to work for south film industry and engineered many renowned artists down the line. He is not only a creative & aspiring educator since 2016 for media & sound, but also an Ableton Certified Trainer in India as his international recognition in the Ableton Website. He has made music for many distinguished artists to the name of few alike-Raghu Dixit, Vijay Prakash and record label-Lahari Recording Company pvt., jingles for TVCs, scoring for films and also worked as a music arranger & scorer, recordist and mix engineer for many independent Artists, Bands & films.

Sushant is a Mixing - mastering engineer and a certified instructor for AVID Pro Tools. He completed his Diploma in Studio Sound Engineering & Music Production from Alchemea College, London and has been associated with studios like Abbey Road Studios. He has over 4 years of experience as an educator.

Atul Lanjudkar studied at Film and Television Institute of India, Pune and B.Tech in College of Engineering, Pune. He began his career as Location Sound Mixer in National Geographic’s Megastructures(Mundra Port), Kajal a short which won international and national film awards and filmfare nomination, Pahuna: The Little Visitors which screened at Cannes and won international and national awards, Chudala a short film internationally awarded and acclaimed. He worked as a Sound Designer in Mhorkya which won 65th National Awards and awards in PIFF 2018, as Location Sound Mixer in Inside Edge-Season 3 a Emmy Awards nominated web series. He also worked in Gonekesh as Sound Designer and Location Sound mixer and also associated international film Gahim Fel Hend. He also worked in several ads, shorts, web media, corporate films. Working on a Under The Open Sky, observational documentary on Jatt nomadic tribe since 2018.

FILMOGRAPHY: Pahuna: The Little Visitors(2017), Mhorkya(2018), Goneksh(2019), Inside Edge Season 3 (2020), Kajal(2016), Chudala(2017)

Varsha comes with a strong background in the field of Educational Counselling & Business Development. Throughout her career of 13 years+ she has been associated with many leading colleges and institutes as a counsellor like ISB&M, Pune, helping students to fulfil their dreams through. Her passion in counselling & familiarity with the education sector has made her a stellar in the field. For last 10 years she is associated with Seamedu School of Pro-Expressionism.

Amey has spent his life in trenches, reporting on hard news with an enduring resilience and unwavering dedication to broadcast journalism, production and reporting.

Amey claims a glittering 15-year career in television journalism and a star cast of media houses as previous employers. This luminary list includes national and international organizations such as ETV Marathi, Saam Marathi, Al Jazeera International, Russia Today and The New York Times. Amey has been in the thick of the action, covering several major stories such as the 26/11 attacks on Mumbai, the 2006 train bombings in Mumbai, and the floods in Mumbai on 26th July 2005.

He has also put in time as a consultant with International Center for Journalists, a Washington-based NGO working for quality journalism education across the globe, out of their Delhi satellite office for three years. He is a graduate of Mumbai University and Ruia College.