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Cheil Worldwide SW Asia announces a raft of creative appointments
MUMBAI: Cheil Worldwide SW Asia [Cheil India] has bolstered its creative department with the appointment of seven new members.
The names include Jayant Mathew, Varun Goswami, Joy Sen Gupta, Prashant Sharma, Navajyoti Pegu (Oyio), Prasanth G and Ankur Kalita.
“These are truly exhilarating times at Cheil India as we see top talent making a beeline to join us,” said Cheil Worldwide SW Asia COO Hari Krishnan. “This creative infusion will give impetus to our philosophy of ideas that move in creating winning solutions for our clients.”
“At Cheil, we are always on the lookout for talent and we have been steadily filling the place with good people at all levels. This time, however, an opportunity presented itself because of which we were able to open our doors to all these guys in a matter of a couple of months,” added Cheil Worldwide, SW Asia chief creative officer Nima DT Namchu.
At Cheil India, Jayant Mathew will be partnering Navin Theeng, group creative director-copy. Both Varun Goswami and Joy Sen Gupta will be working as a team as will be the case with the duo- Prashant Sharma, and Navajyoti Pegu (Oyio). Prasanth G will be working on brand Samsung for SAARC and Ankur Kalita will report to Navin Theeng.
Jayant Mathew moves from Publicis where he was creative director and will now take charge as group creative director – art.
Varun Goswami and Joy Sen Gupta, both join from Lowe Delhi where they were unit creative directors. Goswami’s will join sr creative director –copy while Gupta is the new senior creative director –art.
Prashant Sharma joins from McCann World Group where he was creative director- art and will join in as senior creative director-art. Similarly, Navajyoti Pegu (Oyio) will be joining as senior creative director- copy who was earlier with McCann World Group.
Prasanth G joins from JWT and will be the new sr creative director-art.
Ankur Kalita has moved from McCann World Group, where he was creative leader at their New Delhi office. His current designation will be creative director – copy.
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IICT partners with Gativedhi to bring studio production tools to students
New MoU lets students explore AI-driven production pipelines for AVGC-XR
MUMBAI: The Indian Institute of Creative Technologies (IICT) has teamed up with Gativedhi Technologies to give students a front-row seat to modern studio production. The collaboration will integrate Gativedhi’s AI-powered production intelligence platform, Shotrack, into academic programmes, letting students experience the workflow systems used by animation, VFX and gaming studios.
Under the MoU, faculty, students and researchers will get hands-on access to Shotrack through beta programmes, pilot deployments and academic evaluations. This will allow them to explore simulated production pipelines, understand asset management, track tasks and monitor schedules, essentially seeing how complex projects come together behind the scenes.
Shotrack is designed to tackle a key industry challenge: when multiple studios work on the same project, differing internal systems often create bottlenecks, slow approvals and complicate version control. The platform provides a unified production environment, enabling smoother collaboration across distributed teams while generating operational insights and predictive analytics to optimise crew allocation, forecast schedule risks and manage costs.
The collaboration also opens doors to Gativedhi’s wider ecosystem. Upcoming tools include StudioTrack, for studio operations management covering budgeting, recruitment and IT infrastructure, and WorkTrack, which measures workflow efficiency and team productivity across industries.
IICT plans to embed these tools into programmes covering animation pipelines, VFX workflows, gaming production and media project management. Students will also benefit from guest lectures, masterclasses, workshops, internships and research projects that connect academic learning with real-world studio practices.
IICT CEO Vishwas Deoskar, said the partnership provides “An environment where production pipeline tools can be explored, tested and refined while students gain insight into how large-scale productions are organised.”
Gativedhi Technologies founder & CEO Senthil Kumar added, “This collaboration introduces students to real-world studio management tools and helps us improve our platform with academic feedback.”
With Shotrack in classrooms, India’s future animators, VFX artists and gaming producers will get a taste of studio life long before they step into one.
