Kalika Kharkar Sharma brings years of industry experience and high-level teaching to her courses at NYU-SPS/CALA. An NYU-Alumna herself, she also studied Film and Animation at Rhode Island School of Design. Her clients include Brooks Brothers, Carnegie Hall, United Way of NYC, CNBC, Nickelodeon, Sesame Street, iHeartRadio and Steve Madden, among others. In addition, she’s been teaching motion design, character animation and traditional and experimental filmmaking since 2005. Within NYU, Kalika also teaches at Tisch School of the Arts and SPS-Department of Applied Undergraduate studies; at Pratt Institute she developed a Cinematic Typography course for their Film-Video department, has been a guest lecturer at CUNY, and teaches industry professionals motion graphics best practices. Past students now hold lead creative positions at Samsung, Kayak-OpenTable, NASA, Microsoft and Comedy Central, where 3 won Emmy Awards for Motion Design.
This Fall, Kalika is teaching After Effects I and After Effects II at CALA. To learn more about what you’ll walk away with after taking these exciting courses, check out these short videos: After Effects I and After Effects II. Be sure to visit these galleries of student works, too: After Effects I Student Works and After Effects II Student Works.