What are the career & job prospects in India for Visual Effects/VFX?

All of us are aware about the huge commercial success of VFX incorporated films like Avatar. We would also have read news about the success of Bahubali part 1. Basically, India is a media and entertainment savvy nation and also produces the highest number of feature films in the world with over 1000 films every year. Every film has minimum 50-100 VFX shots to maximum 4000-5000 shots. VFX is a laborious and highly skilled work. For a film like Bahubali, it took two years to complete the VFX with over 600 artists working on it. So, you can imagine the number of people required and the volume of work which needs to be done from time to time. I am just talking about films. If you take the volume of work in Television and advertising, it just becomes much higher. VFX arenas include Painting, 3D Animation, Camera Tracking, Rotoscoping, Rendering and Compositing. You can also see this article on shiksha for this <a href="https://www.shiksha.com/animation/vfx/articles/your-career-after-a-course-in-vfx-blogId-4535" style='word-wrap:break-word;'>https://www.shiksha.com/animation/vfx/articles/your-career-after-a-course-in-vfx-blogId-4535</a>

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The animation & VFX industry is expected to grow at 18.5% to reach Rs. 55.9 billion by 2015. VFX & post-production services, meanwhile, are expected to grow at 24% and 19% respectively. Due to the tremendous growth of this industry, it is creating great career opportunities for trained & talented people. Career in Animation Blockbuster movies like Kung Fu Panda, Ice Age, How to Train Your Dragon & Brave are perfect examples of the magic of animation. The animation industry has immense career scope for those who want to bring their creativity to life and tell interesting stories. The Indian animation industry has a huge demand for trained & skilled animators. With worlds best animation studios like Disney, Sony Pictures & Turner Entertainment outsourcing animation content to India, animation industry is set to witness a boom in the coming years. The animation industry provides various job opportunities, based on your interests and your creative inclination.

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There are a lot of opportunities in this field like compositor, modeling artist, lighting artist, Animators in the movie post production houses not only in these, there will be a lot in advertising agency, Game designing Industries, TV industry and a lot. Now, it becomes a trend settlers to complicate with software jobs in India. And it has decent salary packages for freshers.

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Animation and VFX have emerged to become a very popular career choice among Indian students. In the last few years, this field has gained much attention and the demand for skilled graduates has also increased. Studios, film production houses and animation companies are investing more into this field in order to improve the quality of animation sequences present in their works. Based on the qualifications, one may take up the following job profiles- 1) Director 2) Production Designer 3) Script writer 4) Animator 5) Modeler 6) Compositor 7) Editor 8) Freelancer Some of the areas where the professionals can get jobs include: 1) Animation Studios 2) Media Agencies 3) Film Production Houses 4) Post Production Houses 5) Advertising Agencies 6) Game developing companies and so on. Pay scale: The starting salary would be around 2-4 lakhs INR per annum and with good experience and skills, it may go 8 lakhs per annum or even more.

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