Zee Institute of Creative Arts is one of the top-notch private colleges of Central India for short-term creative programs. ZICA was established in 2019 and is a part of Essel Group. The institute offers employment-oriented short and mid-term courses in the discipline of Animation, Graphic Designing, Interior Designing, Fashion Designing, VFX, Web Designing and Digital Marketing. In addition to this, Essel Group also manages brands like Zee Network, Dish TV, DNA, Fun Republic, E-City, Asian Sky Shop and Essel World. ZICA has more than 20 centers in major cities like Bengaluru, Bhubaneshwar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Cochin, Coimbatore, Darbhanga, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Indore and Jaipur etc. The institute is also a certified and recognized Media and Entertainment Skills Councils (MESC) training provider.

ZICA Courses

Zee Institute of Creative Arts offers Professional career development programs, Professional development programs along with certification courses in various domains. Below are the details for the same. Currently the Students are being charged less than the actual prices for all the courses and EMI Facility is also available

Course Name Specializations Eligibility
PDP 3D Animation Visual Effects, Filmmaking Visual Effects 10+2 in any stream from a recognized school
Professional Programs 2D Digital Animation, 3D Digital Animation, Visual Effects, Graphic Design, Interior Design, Fashion Design 10+2 in any stream from a recognized school
Certification  Graphic & Web Design, Game Art, Architectural Design & Animation, Compositing, Digital Marketing, Audio & Video Editing, Digital Photography 10+2 in any stream from a recognized school

ZICA Admission

The admission process of ZICA is completely online and students can visit the college website for more details.

How to Apply?

  • Fill inquiry form along with all the correct details.
  • After this a creative test followed by personal interview is conducted by the institute to assess students’ skills.
  • Final results to grant admission in various courses are declared by college on the basis of written test and PI.

ZICA Placement

At ZICA, most of the students have been recruited across various levels in top-notch media and entertainment companies and the institute has a dedicated Placement Cell to provide all the students training and 100% placement assistance to all students. 

Top talent-hunters of ZICA  Zee Studios, PRANA, Drishyam Films, Vriksh, TATA ELKSI, Resonance Digital, Vertex Volt, DNEG, Lawn Chair Studios, Trace, Orange Radius, Vistaprint, Byju’s, Suvarna, Redchillies VFX, Rockstar Games, RGBA Studios, Prime Focus, Golden Robot, Krios Digital, Hasbro Digital, Disney, Yashraj Studio, Fluidmark Studio

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ZICA Facilities

In order to enhance the knowledge of students, increase their active participation during lectures, and to give them more freedom over their learning so that the best quality professionals can be produced, ZICA provides the below facilities to all its students.

Instructor-Led Training: As we all know, nothing can beat the importance of classroom teaching and direct interaction with teachers. Hence ZICA offers physical classroom sessions which are generally delivered by highly qualified professionals.

Virtual Classrooms and Video Lectures: To promote the culture of hybrid learning, the institute provides live virtual classes to all its students which they generally attend using apps like Gmeet, Skype or Zoom. In addition to this, students have the flexibility to access pre-recorded video lectures of experts using the ZICA App.

Web-Based Training: The college has an e-portal called ESTUDIO which contains reference study material for all subjects of each course that ZICA is offering.

Masterclasses: To bridge the gap between education and industrial world expectations by inculcating confidence in students and developing their employability skills, the college organizes industry-interaction masterclasses on a regular basis.

ZICA FAQs

Ques. Why should I join ZICA?

Ans. Zee Institute of Creative Arts is definitely the right choice to give wings to your dreams. Because ZICA offers most practical interior and fashion designing courses. And college also offers top-notch facilities in the form of an amazing infrastructure which includes well developed 2D/3D Animation labs, photography studios, digital classrooms and interior designing drafting tables. In addition to this guest lectures and workshops are also conducted by industry experts from India and abroad.

Ques. What is the time duration of PDP and Professional courses offered by ZICA?

Ans. Below are the details of time duration for both the programs.

Course Name Duration
PDP 27 months (3D Animation Visual Effects) and 24 months (Filmmaking Visual Effects)
Professional Programs 24 months (for each specialization)

Ques. What’s the benefit of pursuing a certification program of Architectural Design and Animation from ZICA?

Ans. A wide variety of job opportunities are available in the market for students after successfully finishing this course. They can work as a property developer, builders, freelance visualizer, 3D architectural visualizer, architectural designers, architectural animators and design consultants etc.

Ques. Which software are important for a student pursuing the course of Graphic Design?

Ans. Basic knowledge of software such as Illustrator, Photoshop, CorelDraw, InDesign, Premiere, Audition, After Effects, Adobe XD, Figma and Dimension would definitely be helpful for students.

Ques. How are the faculty of ZICA?

Ans. ZICA has 7+ faculties, all highly qualified and extensively experienced in their respective fields. They maintain a very cordial relationship with all the students in and out of the classrooms.