The studio floor, Haldwani
A school inside a working studio
Creating Tomorrow's Storytellers.
One-year specialised programs in illustration, animation, CG, VFX and digital growth — taught in Haldwani, inside the studio behind Monal Kids, Zappy Toons and Wands & Wings.
10
Specialised Programs
12
Months, Full-time
10+
Years of Studio Craft
50B+
Views Across Our Network
Why Monal Academy
Don't study near the industry. Study inside it.
Monal Academy shares a roof with Monal Digital — the studio whose shows reach millions of children. Your classroom is a working production floor, and that changes everything about how you learn.
World-class craft has always been taught the same way — beside people doing it for real. We're bringing that apprenticeship back, in the hills, an hour from where our own story began.
Mentors who ship
Your reviews come from working artists and growth leads — people whose own scenes and campaigns went out the door this month, not career lecturers.
Real briefs, real deadlines
From the first term your exercises are shaped like production work; by the last term they are production work, on live studio briefs.
A portfolio, not a certificate
You graduate with a showreel reviewed to shipping standard and work made on real productions — the thing studios actually hire on.
Ten programs, three tracks
Pick your craft.
The academy teaches the studio's own pipeline: art becomes animation becomes an audience. Every program is one year, full-time, and goes deep on one discipline.
011 program
Art & Story
Ideas become worlds.
Drawing, digital painting and design — the images every production starts from, and the artists every studio starts with.
026 programs
Animation & CG
Worlds come alive.
2D, 3D, modelling, rigging, VFX and post — the production floor disciplines, taught the way our own floor runs them.
033 programs
Marketing & Growth
Stories find audiences.
Social, paid and YouTube — the skills that took our network to billions of views, taught by the people who did it.
How the year runs
Twelve months, one craft.
Whichever program you choose, the shape of the year is the same — because it is the shape apprenticeship has always had.
01Months 1–3
Foundations
Fundamentals, daily. Whatever your program, the first term builds the craft basics everything else stands on — with no prior experience assumed.
02Months 4–9
Specialisation
Deep in your discipline. Weekly briefs, weekly reviews, rising difficulty — the same feedback loop the studio's own work goes through.
03Months 10–12
The Studio Floor
Live briefs from real productions. You finish with a portfolio of work made to shipping standard — not classroom exercises.
The mentors' day job
You'll train behind real shows.
These are in production on the same floor you'll study on. The people who make them set your briefs and review your work.
