Animation is one
of the fastest growing outsourced services industries in India. Whether it’s
about outsources content or content for the domestic market, Indian animators
are proving their might. The recent Hollywood releases such as Life of Pie
& Frozen had Indian animators weaving their magic. Apart from this
animators have also shown their might in Indian blockbusters such as Krrish 3,
Dhoom 3 and Chota Bheem. As a result of this exponential growth, the Indian
animation industry needs a skilled workforce to remain competitive on a global
scale.
It is very
important in today’s date to have expert animators which requires quality
education in animation education apart from up-to-date IT infrastructure to
support the same. Students need modern infrastructure, a professional
environment and a wide variety of courses to support students requirements. A
student might be interested in 2D or 3D or maybe VFX or rigging or lighting;
the sector is so vast that one single individual cannot educate himself/herself
with the entire ecosystem. During the course of study, a student will not only
learn the visual language that every animator has to learn at some stage or the
other, character presentation, software, sketching, portfolio design, etc. A
reputed institute will always keep itself updated to the latest developments in
technology worldwide this can be either be the improvements in hardware or
animation software. As at the end of the day, these factors will affect the
output that an animator generates as it is this output which is a blend of
his/her ideas, creativity and skills and will be a stepping stone towards
recognition in the industry. Therefore students go through a long and
cumbersome process while choosing an animation institute as very few government
or state universities teach the subject so a potential candidate has to look to
private institutions and mostly programmes are not of degree level but of
diploma level. The good thing is that many a animation institutes have
international partnerships with international animation colleges where they can
do either a year or two in India and can do their final year in the college’s
international campus. At a later stage, this also gives them the benefit while
applying for a job in the animation industry. However, one needs to see that
the animation institute of the course covers the basic elements of animation
such as drawing, animation techniques, fundamentals of movement, character
design, lighting, landscape design, etc so that they can focus on one particular
area at a later stage of their curriculum.
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