Is animation a "real" career?

As the entertainment industry grows globally, in the past two decades, the amount of animation film, television channels exclusive for animation, VFX in feature films, GAMING have grown phenomenally. There are plenty of career opportunities not just in India, even in International segment.

How do I know if animation is the right career option for me?

Every body goes through, storytelling, drawing, painting & creativity at some point in life, starting from childhood. Animation is even more fun and enjoyable career option, since every body has some creative potential within themselves, which needs to be identified and streamlined.

Does animation mean that you only get to work in movies?

In feature films there are 2 categories A - fully animated films ex: lionking, shrek, finding nemo etc., B - VFX almost every film has got some portion of VFX integrated ex: lord of the rings, spiderman, matrix, krish, dhoom etc., there are close to 10 channels in TV format telecasting only animation contents, animax, cartoon network, pogo, disney etc., Gaming - is a huge business in entertainment and gaming industry generates more revenue than films & tv(including live action).

What software / programs will be learning during the term of the course?

Softwares keeps changing as per the industry requirements. As WWIL is already partnered with many indian studios and international studios like dreamworks etc., softwares keep changing. Our approach in teaching softwares is, it?s just a tool to communicate your creativity. At the moment, apart from traditional animation, we teach Photoshop for matte painting, toonboom for 2d digital animation, Autodesk Maya & Softimage XSI for 3D training and we have exclusive training in Zbrush and FACEROBOT for facial animation.

What kind of equipment will we be exposed to during the training?

The equipments used are very high-end equivalent to any studio production process. We use high end Apple Macpros with Wacom Intuos and apple renderfarm.

What kind of faculty will be teaching us?

The full time faculties are 8 -10 years of working professionals who had been working in top notch indian studios and had experience in working on projects for disney, warner bros, etc., Part time & visiting lectures are from different studios across India and international. To name a few, we had visiting lectures from Sony Imageworks, dreamworks, disney, crest, Big animation, Paprikas, UTV, Primefocus, Pixion etc., coming as visiting faculty.

What are the job profiles available in this field?

Depending on the talents demonstrated by each individual, students may hold a variety of positions: traditional, digital animator, visualizer, digital matte painting artist, storyboard artist 2D,3D character animator, effects artist, modeling artist, technical artist, compositor, BG, Layout artist, rigging artist etc. in all departments, the growth is beginners, junior, mid level, seniors, supervisor, director is the path of journey. Everybody will start as beginner or junior level artist in any of the above mentioned department.

Will I be able to make a global career in animation?

Animation is another art form. If the student has strong creative skills demonstrated particularly drawing/sketching/painting/photography/technology there are plenty of opportunities in global animation segment.

What kind of salary can one expect in the initial stages?

Salaries depend on studios and individual skill set. There is no standard fixed rule. It might start from 15K - 30k for the students graduating from our students and it?s purely on merit of students skills and it varies from individual to individuals.