The staff shortage

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The staff shortage in India's special effects industry Published 1 day ago Share Vinay Sastha R, technical director VFX IMAGE SOURCE,VINAY SASTHA R Image caption, Vinay Sastha R has just started out in the visual effects industry By Priti Gupta Mumbai As a child, Vinay Sastha R found his imagination fired by films like The Lord of the Rings and the Harry Potter series. But unlike most other people, he now works on movies. Based in Trichy in southern India, Mr Sastha R works as a technical director creating visual effects (VFX) for DNEG, one of India's leading VFX studios.

Not only is India's domestic film industry demanding more special effects, companies from overseas are sending work to India. For example, the dragons in the fifth season of Game of Thrones were created in Mumbai. Emilia Clark on drago Brazil Mobile Number List  MAGE SOURCE,HBO Image caption, The dragons in season five of Game of Thrones were created in India Streaming entertainment firms like Netflix, animated TV and film producers, and the computer games industry are all demanding more.



India has become a big market for outsourcing though not the entire movie - but parts of movies," says Ketan Mehta, founder of Cosmos Maya, a visual effects and animation studio. He says it's only a matter of time" before Indian studios are handling all the visual effects for big global productions. But being plugged into the global market has its downside. India could not dodge the effects of the strikes in Hollywood, which shut down TV and film production for months last year. "The strike in Hollywood had a big impact on the Indian market. We could clearly see the ripple effects. There were layoffs and production houses downsized.