Animation, new hope for budding talents

Hyderabad: To cater to the growing need of skilled human resources in the animation industry, several new institutes are coming up, offering a variety of programmes that covers advanced concepts in animation, visual effects, gaming, and multimedia.

Some of the career courses these institutes offer include AD3D EDGE, ADMD, VFX Plus, Max Pro, and Maya Pro, which will be handled by experienced trainers in real time environment. They also offer next-gen training programmes in Trinity 3D, VFX film making and gaming courses in Game Art, Game Design and Game Development.

According to a recent FICCI report, the Indian animation and VFX industry is growing more than 20 per cent. As per a recent report, jointly prepared by EY and FICCI, the growth of the sector is expected to get a boost in the coming years.

The animation sector in India has been growing at a steady pace over the past few years and reached Rs 17 billion in 2017, registering a growth of 13 per cent over 2016. It is expected to grow at a CAGR of 11 per cent till 2020.

While inaugurating such a centre in Hyderabad on Sunday, Jayesh Ranjan, Principal Secretary of Information Technology (IT) Department of the Telangana government said, "Telangana is a State that heavily advocates higher education to all. The State has also been working on adapting its policy on animation, visual effects, and comics sector (AVGC) to boost the industry in the State.

And can provide great impetus to the development of the State. The government of Telangana is committed to providing an ecosystem for the AVGC sector and trained human resources in the media and entertainment industry are the need of the hour."

"With over twenty-three years of experience, the new centre - Arena Animation - is focused on facilitating the youth with the right skills required for the future industries. We have trained over four lakh students globally since our inception and are extremely elated to proclaim that we are committed to empowering the youth of India in their journey to fulfil aspirations. Setting up a world-class animation institute in Mehdipatnam at this point is aligned with the cause of the government," commented Shajan Samuel, Aptech Assistant Vice President.

Arena Mehdipatnam franchise is owned by Mike (Madhav Reddy) Founder of Rotomaker India Pvt Ltd and has special privileges of getting support from the real-time production team and guaranteed placements in Rotomaker production.

Rotomaker is one of the top visual effects outsourcing companies in India that bears a reputation for working on more than 2000 VFX projects from which the majority of them being blockbuster Hollywood movies.