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Bhanu Prakash Busagari is an Assistant Professor at Mahindra University and an award‑winning short film director in both animation and live‑action films. He holds a Master’s in Animation Film Design from NID Ahmedabad, runs hands‑on stop‑motion projects using Indian handicraft toys (especially Kondapalli) to balance traditional crafts with digital technology, and has 16+ years’ industry and education experience including studio work, school curriculum design, a startup (Horse Cart Studio), and work in the Telugu film industry.
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Bhanu Prakash Busagari
Assistant Professor
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 2nd 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.
- Master’s in design (M.Des), National Institute of Design (Ahmedabad), 2007
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Applied Arts)
ORCID Id: 0009-0001-2068-0424
- Assistant Professor, Mahindra University.
- Associate Professor and Coordinator, Communication Department, National Institute of Design (NID), Andhra Pradesh.
- Assistant Professor, DY Patil International University.
- Concept Art Designer and Storyboard Artist, DQ Entertainment, Hyderabad.
- Creative Head for Art and Design Department at a school in Hyderabad, where he designed curriculum and trained faculty members.
- Founder, Horse Cart Studio, Hyderabad.
- Assistant Director in the Telugu Film Industry, contributing to the pre-production of feature films.
- Visiting Faculty and Jury Member at institutes including NIFT Hyderabad, MIT ADT Pune, and Avantika University, Ujjain.
- Writer, Producer, and Director of award-winning animation and live-action short films.
Stop-motion animation and AI, Design Pedagogy, Indian Handicrafts and Indian culture.
