School of Animation, Digital Asia has its own Placements Cell that helps prepare its students for placement. It organises seminars, workshops, industry visits and regular in-house activities like group discussions, debates and mock interviews. Prominent experts and specialists from the industry are invited to speak at the seminars and workshops. Campus recruitment and job fairs are also arranged.
Campus interviews are held regularly. All eligible students of last batches are well placed.
Some of the regular programmes:
Perspectives: These seminars bring together professionals from the animation community to share their knowledge, thoughts, views and experiences with School of Animation, Digital Asia students.
TechWize: These are workshops by industry people on technology/ opportunities in the field of multimedia and animation such as on special effects, gaming, media and broadcasting, post-production, etc.
CareerWize: These are workshops to improve the students’ personal and interpersonal skills, e.g. effective presentation skills, resume building, facing a group discussion, facing job interviews, how to set and achieve goals, importance of creativity in your job, making a demo reel, etc.
Job fairs: From time to time, School of Animation, Digital Asia students participate in job fairs. Various studios as well as other companies participate in these fairs and recruit professionals trained by DASA, straight from campus.
School of Animation, Digital Asia students have been placed at various companies. Among these are blue-chip animation studios and entertainment companies like Prime Focus, Rhythm & Hues, Crest Animation Studios, EFX, UTV Toons, Toonz Animation, Nipuna Services, Prasad Studio, Colour Chips, Ramoji Film City, Green Gold Animation, DQ Entertainment, Paprikaas Animation Studios, Usha Kiron TV, Sony TV, Google India, NDTV, TOI, DD Sports, Discovery Channel, Divya Bhaskar, Asian Satellite Communications, ETV and Zee TV. Our students have been placed as graphic designers, 3D animators, AV editors, technical trainers, 3D modelers, compositors, visualisers, content developers and pre- and post-production executives.
