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Y Datsi

We are a creative learning hub exploring digital art forms from Animation, VFX, Gaming and Comics to immersive storytelling and filmmaking.

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DATSI School for Storytellers opened in 2023 to close the gap between how animation is taught and how it is actually made. We began with focused, short-term upskilling courses built around specific skill gaps in the animation industry. Today we are an animation, VFX and digital arts institute with full-time, 16-week programmes on our Trivandrum campus and part-time courses online. We're growing into a complete immersive storytelling and filmmaking academy across animation, VFX, games and film.

Setting the Context

Why DATSI's courses are built the way they are. Media technology and aesthetics never stop changing, so we ask every learner to question what it means to 'know' something, and to keep learning for life.

Course Offerings

Full time on campus courses

Online part time courses

Industry in the Classroom

What started as an experiment in work-based learning is now simply how we teach. DATSI shares its campus with Zebu Animation Studios, a working animation studio started by DATSI's founders. Your mentors are working professionals, and your coursework runs the way a studio does: production-style briefs, regular reviews and real deadlines.

Industry Connect

Our programmes are peer-reviewed by industry professionals and endorsed by our government partner, ASAP Kerala. Through Datsi Circle Time, studio leaders, artists and professionals from India and abroad meet our students to talk about how the work really gets made. And because DATSI was founded by the co-founders of Zebu, studio standards shape what we teach and how we review your work.

Life in Thiruvananthapuram

Coming from outside the city? Our wellness and support team helps you settle in for your four-month programme, from finding accommodation to finding your way around. Outside class, Kerala's capital has beaches, hills, good food and a busy cultural calendar.

For
Students and Professionals

We are a growing community of teachers and students, professionals and amateurs, young and old, famous and obscure, all coming together to learn from one another.

We share knowledge and resources, and work together to further the art of storytelling.

For Animation studios and
Creative organizations

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