Bhanu Prakash Busagari

Overview

Bhanu Prakash Busagari is an award-winning short film director in both animation and live-action films. His recent stop frame animation short film “Will with Wings” has won 2^nd prize at competition by AIDWA and it was also shortlisted in MIFF 2024 competition. His previous short films have won many awards including Best Director award too. Bhanu Prakash likes to make stories with stop frame animation using Indian Handicraft toys specially Kondapalli toys to promote them. He was the founder of his startup studio called Horse cart studio and designed logos for few companies and one of them is for Hyderabad Metro. He has 16+ years of experience in Industry and Education field. In this AI generation where things are happening with click of a button and making students impatient, Bhanu Prakash tries to make students unflappable by training them with hands on experience in stop frame animation. He tries to maintain balance with Indian Handicrafts and latest digital technology. He likes making furniture design, miniature handicrafts, interior designing, bicycling, playing chess and caroms.

Education

Masters in Animation Film Design

Bhanu Prakash Busagari has done his Masters in Animation Film Design from National Institute of Design (Ahmedabad) and Bachelors in Fine Arts from Sri Venkateshwara college of Fine Arts (Hyderabad) with specialization in Applied Arts.

Experience

He is an Assistant Professor at Mahindra University, After receiving his Masters at NID along with Pride of NID 2007 Award, Mr.Bhanu Prakash Busagari joined DQ Entertainment animation company at Hyderabad as a Concept Art Designer and storyboard artist for 2years. Later he joined an upcoming School at Hyderabad as Creative Head and designed curriculum for Art and Design Department and trained 4 teachers in his four years. He started his start up studio called Horse cart studio at Hyderabad. He did promotional advertisements for Flintobox and designed logos for several companies. In 2018 he joined NID, Andhra Pradesh, as an Associate Professor and Coordinator for the Communication Department. Later he joined DY Patil International University as an Assistant Professor and worked for a few years. He worked in the Telugu Film Industry as an Assistant Director and worked for 3 upcoming Telugu feature films in Pre-Production Department.

Mr. Bhanu Prakash Busagari also worked as a Visiting Faculty and Jury Member for Design Institutes like NIFT Hyderabad, MIT AD Pune, Avantika University Ujjain MP. He has also written, produced, and Directed award winning short films in both animation and live action mediums.