Ram Mohan is a veteran in the Indian animation

Animation

Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. The effect is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in several ways...

 industry, who started his career at the Cartoon Films Unit, Films Division, Government of India in 1956. He was awarded a lifetime achievement award at the 2006 Mumbai International Film Festival

Mumbai International Film Festival

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Education

Graduated in Science from the University of Madras and later gave up post-graduate studies to join the Cartoon Films Unit, Films Division, government of India in 1956.He received training in animation techniques from Clair H. Weeks of Walt Disney Studios, under the US Technical Aid program.

Career

Scripted, designed and animated many of Cartoon Film unit's productions from 1960 to1967, including 'Homo Saps' which won the National Award for Best Experimental Film, 1967, and 'Chaos' which won an Award at the Leipzig Festival of short Films in1968. He participated in the 1967 world retrospective of Animation Cinema in Montreal. In 1968 he left Films Division and joined Prasad Productions as chief of their animation division. In 1972 established his own production company, Ram Mohan Biographics.

Awards

1969- National Award for the Best Film on family planning, “Baap Re Baap”.

1972- National Award for the Best Animation Film; “You Said it”.

1974- He was commissioned to script, design and direct a series of educational films on population and environment, “Down to Earth” for the International Planned Parenthood Federation and the Family Planning Association of India.

1996- Communication Arts Guild

Communication Arts Guild

Communication Arts Guild or CAG is an organisation dedicated to Indian Advertising Industry and encouraging budding artists. It serves as an example of the high quality of work done in Visual Communication today. Located in Mumbai, this is the only organisation which has the complete record of the...

Hall of Frame award for Life Time achievement. Series director:“Meena” for UNICEF, a series of 13 episodes dealing with issues concerning the girl child in south Asia.

2001- Advertising Club Award 'ABBY' for Life Time Achievement.

2002- Chairman, Graphiti Multimedia, Pvt. Ltd

2003- I.D.P.A. 'Ezra Mir' award for Life-Time Achievement. Broadcast India