The staff shortage in India's special effects industry - BBC News

With international studios sending more work to India, the industry is struggling to train enough staff.

1 day agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, Vinay Sastha RImage caption, Vinay Sastha R has just started out in the visual effects industryBy Priti GuptaMumbaiAs 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.

Aged 26, he only has a couple of years in the industry, but still gets to work on fun projects.

"A technical director mainly deals with creating elements that could not be made while filming... like creating a lava rain in a city, making rain freeze in air, or the moon melting - anything fantastical you can think of," he says.

"I love and enjoy what I am doing."

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