The accidental animator: Pushkaraj Bagwe considers his animation career accidental. But he seems to be making more than the most of it. Starting as an in-betweener, he is now show director of UTV Toons, one of India's leading animation studios.
Asia Image, November, 2003 by Gupta, Ritesh
He is considered one of the emerging talents of the Indian animation industry. But Pushkaraj Bagwe, show director at UTV Toons, says the journey hasn't been easy for him.
The soft-spoken Bagwe considers his tryst with animation as "accidental". But he knew, even for that, he had to persevere. In the first three years of his career, he wasn't even involved in animation.
He reveals, "I would term my career in animation as accidental planning. After graduation in the early 1990s, I started my career as a visualiser/illustrator for an advertising agency and then ...
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