Shilpa Ranade

Shilpa Ranade
Born	1966
Nationality	Indian
Occupation	Animator, filmmaker, illustrator, designer and acamedician
Years active	1995-present
Notable work	'Mani's Dying', 'The Harvest', 'Goopi Gawaiya Bagha Bajaiya'

Shilpa Ranade (born 1966) is an acclaimed Indian designer, animator, illustrator, filmmaker and academician. She has been faculty at Industrial Design Centre in Mumbai since 2001. She has directed animated short films for Channel 4, UK and her films have been screened all over the world, winning accolades in some of the most prestigious film festivals. The award-winning animation movie Goopi Gawaiya Bagha Bajaiya was her first full-length feature film which world premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Her other films are Naja Goes to School and Mani's Dying.

'Mani's Dying', 'The Harvest',

As a child, she was deeply interested in drawing and art. Her parents encouraged her to pursue a career in an area of her interest. After class 10, she decided to pursue applied art and she went to Sir J.J. Institute of Applied Art where she specialized in Illustration and Video. She then decided to pursue visual communication at I.I.T. Bombay and in 1989, she graduated with Master in Design (Visual Communication) with a specialization in Advanced Illustration and Video. To study animation formally, she pursued her M.Phil in Animation at the Royal College of Art in London. Her thesis was on 'Indigenous Images and Narratives for Socially Relevant Animation'.

After receiving her masters, she worked for six months in 1989, as an intern under renowned Indian animator Ram Mohan after which she went on to work for two years as a filmmaker at the TATA Institute of Social Sciences. At TISS, she made films on themes such as mental health, blind parents bringing up sighted children and the social implications of art.

After her M.Phil. in Animation, in 1996, she produced her first animation film 'Mani's dying' which was based on a 1960s pioneering marathi novel called Kosala.

In 2001, she returned to the Industrial Design Centre at I.I.T Bombay and was responsible for setting up the centre's first degree program in animation. Its first batch graduated in 2006.

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