VFX Course in Kolkata · Visual Effects Training · Est. 1998
Train in VFX (Visual Effects) at the Kolkata institute whose alumni hold credits on Life of Pi, The Jungle Book and Guardians of the Galaxy — two of them Oscar winners for Best VFX. Learn the real production pipeline — Nuke, Houdini & Maya — in batches of just 8 students, with placement support.
- EPIC Authorized Instructor
- WCEL Best Centre · India 2026
- EPIC Authorized Instructor
- WCEL Best Centre · India 2026
- Park Street alumni have worked on
Kolkata's longest-running VFX & animation institute
Reputation earned over 28 years, not bought.
VFX programmes in Park Street, near St. Xavier's College
From a focused compositing-and-editing sprint to a complete Houdini-to-Nuke pipeline, every track is built on the software studios actually run — and ends in a reel built to get you hired. Five ways in. Swipe through and find yours.
0% Bajaj Finance EMI on every programme
West Bengal Student Credit Card accepted
From Class 10 · all streams
Why Arena for VFX in Kolkata
Park Street didn’t become the institute it is by accident. Across nearly three decades, the same things have set it apart — here are the five that matter most for a VFX career.
ISO 9001
Certified · India
Reason 01 — Credibility
The first ISO 9001 certified animation & VFX centre in India.
Long before “quality” became a marketing word, Park Street had earned the certification — the first Arena training centre in the country to do it, and the standard has held ever since. When a family trusts the institute with a VFX career, that rigour is the baseline, not the boast.
Reason 02 — Alumni
Alumni on Oscar-winning films
Reason 03 — Pipeline
Students work the same tools studios run — compositing in Nuke, FX in Houdini, 3D in Maya, real-time in Unreal — so day one on a production floor isn’t the first time they’ve seen them.
Reason 04 — Expertise
Park Street is part of the three bodies steering India’s animation and VFX industry — so the curriculum moves with the field, not behind it.
Reason 05 — Placement
Across the Arena Animation network of 200+ branches nationwide, Park Street has been recognised five times for the highest placement record in India. We don’t just lead in Kolkata — we lead the network.
Certified & aligned
MESC-aligned curriculum
NSDC Partner
Skill India
★ On-campus green screen studio
Arena Animation Park Street runs an in-house green screen studio with professional lighting — one of the few VFX training centres in Kolkata that does. Which means students don’t just pull keys from someone else’s footage. They light the screen, shoot the plate, spot the spill and the uneven lighting themselves, and then take it into Silhouette and Nuke to roto, key and composite. The mistakes happen here, in training — not in front of a supervisor on day one.
Awards & Recognition
The recognition below didn’t come from the institute. It came from independent juries, industry bodies and government awards — for teaching quality and the work students produce.
★ WCEL · 2026
In 2026 the World Creative Excellence League reviewed Arena centres across India on teaching quality, faculty quality, placement velocity and graduate portfolio strength. Park Street ranked first among all small-batch Arena centres in India.
#1 IN INDIA
WCEL Best Centre 2026
#1 IN INDIA
WCEL Best Centre 2026
★ Alumni VFX credits · Soumava Das, Batch 2008
The films below aren’t a wishlist. A Park Street alumnus holds lighting credits on all three — two of which won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, the third nominated.
Life of Pi
2012 · Dir. Ang Lee · Rhythm & Hues
Academy Award — Won, Best Visual Effects
The Jungle Book
2016 · Dir. Jon Favreau · MPC
Academy Award — Won, Best Visual Effects
Guardians of the Galaxy
2014 · Marvel Studios · MPC
Academy Award — Nominated, Best Visual Effects
Soumava Das graduated from Park Street in 2008 and worked on the lighting teams behind all three productions — at Rhythm & Hues and MPC. The credits are publicly verifiable on IMDb.
★ Best Rigging
Sumedha Paul
WAVES Awards of Excellence
Recognised for strong 3D character rigging skills at a studio-level standard during the programme.
ASIFA India × Ministry of I&B, Govt of India
★ Best Modelling & Texturing
Souhardya Chakraborty
WAVES Awards of Excellence
Recognises technical precision, artistic judgment and industry-ready execution — rare at the student stage.
ASIFA India × Ministry of I&B, Govt of India
★ 3D Character & Props
Atasi Chakraborty
World Creative Excellence League
Winner — the same league that ranked Park Street the #1 small-batch animation centre in India.
World Creative Excellence League · 2026
Recent VFX placements · named in full
Both graduates below were placed at Cine Visual FX in the final week of classes — before their final exam and diploma. That’s how the placement process works here: studios interview while students are still on the floor. Salaries are monthly take-home in INR, the entry-level standard.
Placed within 30 days of finishing
Pritam Chakraborty
Jr Compositing Artist
Cine Visual FX
₹20,000 / mo
The track record · more VFX placements on file
Recent and past VFX graduates, placed into compositing, roto and matchmove roles at working studios. Every name is verifiable with the employer.
Sayandip Chakraborty
3D Environment Modelling
Shubham Hembram
Lighting Artist
Sanket Das
Animation Artist
Dibyendu Bhumij
Unreal Artist
Atindra Biswas
3D Generalist
Shravani Bose
Production Coordinator
Manoranjan Hazra
Lighting Artist
Riya Chakraborty
CG Generalist (Unreal)
Arena Park Street does not guarantee placements. No honest institute can. What it does: every student who finishes the curriculum, keeps attendance and submits a real reel has found work within three months. Names, roles, studios and salaries above are verifiable with each employer.
Production experience included.
Our faculty are industry veterans who learned to teach. Every core member brings at least five years inside production studios and five years in the classroom — so you’re mentored by people who’ve shipped real work for a living and care about your success.
3D & Production Faculty
Sumit Banerjee
Senior & supervisory roles across Xentrix, DQ Entertainment, Zoetrope and Hi Tech. Leads the 3D track — modelling, rigging, character animation, rendering — across AVGC Maya & Blender.
Pre-Production & 2D Faculty
Patralika Biswas
2D animator on Chhota Bheem at Green Gold, then Fountain Pixels in Pune. Storyboard & character-design lead at Mayabious Art. Teaches the pre-production foundations every student starts with.
VFX, Post & Unreal Faculty
Subhra Saha
An Unreal Authorized Instructor — certified directly by Epic Games, who evaluate production experience before granting it. Former lighting trainer at Prana Studios. Leads the Unreal, VFX & post track.
Examples, not promises
Park Street alumni light Oscar-winning films, head virtual production at major studios, and run companies of their own. These aren’t entry-level stories — they’re careers that reached the top. Each one began in the same seat you’re considering.
★ Park Street Alumnus
★ 2 Oscar-winning films
Batch of 2008
Soumava Das
Senior Lighting Artist
His name is in three films that were up for the Oscar for Best Visual Effects — and two of them won. Today he works at Framestore in Melbourne.
Life of Pi ★ Won Best VFX
The Jungle Book ★ Won Best VFX
Guardians of the Galaxy Oscar-nominated
Now at Framestore · Melbourne
Works at a top film studio
Batch of 2021
Somali Ghosh
Unreal Generalist
She builds virtual film sets using Unreal Engine — the kind used in movies and web shows. Today she works at Annapurna Studios, India’s biggest film studios.
Annapurna Studios Unreal Generalist
Virtual Production Film & OTT sets
Unreal Engine 5 Real-time pipelines
Now at Annapurna Studios · Hyderabad
★ Park Street Alumnus
Bollywood blockbusters
Batch of 2006
Surajit Sen
Sr. Character Modeller
His CGI work for Pathaan looked so real that PETA wrote to the makers. He works on the biggest Bollywood films — and now teaches here too.
War 2019
Pathaan 2023
Tiger 3 2023
Now at Visiting Faculty · Park Street
★ Park Street Alumnus
Founder & CEO
Batch of 2014 · A+ Grade
Rambhik Biswas
VFX Compositor & Founder
He passed with an A+, worked five years at top studios, then started his own company. It now has clients in the US, Canada , delivering creative projects for international brands.
Frame Founder Studio Founder, est. 2022
Ny Vfxwaala Ajay Devgn Films
Fourth Dimension VFX Kolkata
Clients across US · Canada · UK
★ Park Street Alumnus
Films seen by millions
Batch of 2022
Sudarshan Saha
Unreal Generalist & VFX Artist
He creates virtual sets and environments in Unreal Engine and has worked with leading studios, including the makers of Chhota Bheem — on films seen by millions.
Light N Light Unreal Generalist
Digikore Studios Virtual production · Pune
Green Gold Animation Chhota Bheem studio
Now at Light N Light · Kolkata
★ Park Street Alumnus
Preparing for what's next
Our curriculum builds Generative AI into the production pipeline — not as a gimmick, but as craft. Students learn when to use AI and when to do it by hand. Studios hiring in 2026 don’t want button-pushers; they want artists who can direct an AI workflow with the same judgment they’d bring to a frame they animated themselves.
No fine print
The things parents and students actually ask before joining — fees, duration, eligibility and placement — with no run-around.
Our animation & VFX course fees in Kolkata depend on the programme you pick — from a short CGI sprint to the 37-month Trinity flagship. Every programme carries a transparent fee structure with 0% Bajaj Finance EMI, and we accept the West Bengal Student Credit Card. Book a free counselling session and we’ll walk you through the exact fee, EMI plan and duration for the track that fits you.
Yes. Most of our animation courses are open from Class 10 onwards, across all streams — you don’t need a background in art or coding. Whether you’re an animation course after 12th aspirant or a working professional pivoting in, there’s a programme and a batch timing built for you.
We do — Arena Park Street is an animation, VFX & gaming institute. You can specialise in 3D animation, go deep on VFX with Houdini and Nuke, or take the Trinity programme that crosses all three. It’s why students searching for the best VFX course in Kolkata and the best animation institute in Kolkata land on the same campus.
All of them, depending on your track. Our 3D animation courses are built on industry-standard Autodesk Maya, Blender and Unreal Engine 5, with ZBrush, Substance, Houdini FX, Nuke and Generative AI tools layered in. These are the exact tools on the credits of films like Life of Pi and The Jungle Book.
Yes. We don’t sell guarantees — we publish results. Every student who finishes the curriculum, keeps attendance and submits a real portfolio reel has found an animation job within three months. Our 2025 batch of eight was placed across nine studios, names and roles listed in full above.
We’re at 105 Park Street, 1st Floor, Kohinoor Building, Kolkata 700016 — next to St. Xavier’s College, a five-minute walk from Park Street Metro. If you’re searching for an animation or VFX class near you in central Kolkata, this is about as central as it gets. Visit us on a Saturday and see the labs for yourself.
Free 30-min counselling
You can keep researching for weeks. Or come in, see the labs on a Saturday, meet the faculty, and decide once you’ve seen the actual training.
8
Seats per batch. When they’re gone, the next batch could be weeks away. The students who get placed first are the ones who didn’t wait.
1st Floor, Kohinoor Building, 105 Park Street, Kolkata 700016
Next to St. Xavier’s College · Park Street Metro: 5-min walk
+91 90070 63660 · mailbox@arenaparkstreet.com
Free 30-min counselling
No script, no pressure. We’ll look at your goals and tell you honestly which programme fits — or whether you should go elsewhere.
Kohinoor Building (1st Floor), 105 Park Street, Kolkata 700016. Near St. Xavier’s College. Kolkata’s leading Animation, VFX & Gaming training institute since 1998.
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