Pooja Pottenkulam was born and brought up in India. After an animation degree from the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad, she worked with MTV and Nickelodeon in Mumbai. In 2004, she moved to London to do an MA in Animation at the Royal College of Art. Following this she continued to live and work in London, up until December 2010, when she decided to move back to India.
Although trained primarily as an animation filmmaker, her professional work also includes illustration, book design, animation curating and most recently casual game design.
