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With – Hollywood blockbusters like Lord of the Rings, the Matrix reload, Finding Nemo, pretty much dominating the box office, even Bollywood (Mumbai) is catching up with special effects embedded in Koi Mil Gaya, Rudraksh or Jajantaram Mamantaram. It's safe to say that digital filmmaking has arrived in full force and special effects are no longer so special.
Stars Wars, released back in the dim past of 1977, not only made its creator, George Lucas, a very wealthy man, but more importantly, it changed the way movies were made. "There's always jobs for talented animators. At the beginning of this industry it was strictly the technicians who were using the software and it was tough to use. But slowly artists have seen what the technical people have been able to create. According to Nasscom, the overall size of the market in content development, animation, engineering and design is a whopping Rs 2000 crore in India. So this industry is growing quite extensively and a desire to see high-quality action is driving the animation market," says Naveen Gupta, Vice President, Maya Academy of Advanced Cinematics (MAAC)
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