Click to play videoChennai: How do you make a superhero out of a hero? Well, all you need is a computer, some software skills and a way with colours. This is what special effects or visual effects in films is all about.
It includes processes like matting, rendering, colour correction, animation to create an animated wonder.
Special effects artists and Director Oysterr Studios, A.Venkatakrishnan says, "I was a painter, then I was a photographer. Then I started working in an advertisement, then slowly started working on visual effects shots. now I do feature films and commercials,” he says.
Like Venkat, if films and commercials are your choice of work too, get ready to be a team player because this job's all about team work.
"If he's not an artist, then part of the job if he's a person who can understand the movements of an object. He can work on tracking. If he's really good with colour, he can work with colour correction and if he's not an artist but can understand the colour and depth of field, he can work on camera animation,” he says.
Besides the Visual Communication courses offered by colleges, one can opt for the 13-month Advanced Diploma course in 3-D animation and Special effects at Maya Academy of Advanced Cinematics, the specialisation or one year course at Pixelloid in Hyderabad or the Palette School of multimedia in Hyderabad.
Visual effects course at the Image College of Arts, Animation and Technology in Chennai.
But if you're the lone wolf you could try branching out into medical animation, designing e-brochures and catalogues or even animation.
"If you're working on your own with the web or CD ROM or those kind of things-then you can easily earn up to 40-50,000,” says Venkatakrishnan.
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