Indeed, no American short made the list at all. Disney and Pixar have an effective stranglehold on the Oscars’ animated feature category, taking three of the five nominations, but made no mark at all in the traditionally more experimental animated shorts.

Through various traditional animation techniques like paper and pencil animation, Clay animation, papercut out animation, Chalk and Blackboard animation, we can nurture the creativity among the children at the right stage where their degree of curiosity to learn interesting things is rather more in comparison to the adulthood.What a strange moment in animation. I have always felt that animation needs to be taught in schooling stage onwards like an Extracurricular activity and I have been thinking of simple and legible ways to take this craft to the children without requiring much of software assistance and just using their natural sketching skills and playful mind. Currently am pursuing independent animation filmmaking fulltime and teaching animation on an occasional basis.

Computer Science Engineering and graduated in 2015. I have my post graduation in Master of Design in Animation & Film making from Industrial Design Centre, IIT Bombay and graduated in 2019. ( Bhanwar Rathore Design studio - Bengaluru, Visiting Animation Faculty - Kerala State Institute of Design 2021). I am an Independent Animation Filmmaker and Animation educator.

I am Divakar Kuppan from Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.

Pencil animation short film