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Gaming industry

India has a huge potential in gaming industry not only for international market but even at domestic level. The craze for games is increasing in India. There is a strong belief among experts that gaming industry would witness a boom in the near future.

Apart from this, India's established IT reputation is attracting the eyeballs of the world's gaming fraternity.

As per the predictions of NASSCOM, the revenues of animation and gaming industry is expected to reach $ 1.25 billion by the year 2009.

Other Options
Animation has much wider spectrum than one can think of. In India, there are multiple areas which are still in infancy and are promising an attractive career prospects, yet to be explored. For instance, animation is used in fashion industry, textile industry, virtual reality and many more. "In India, animation industry is catching up the spark but there is lot more to come up. In abroad, even toddlers are taught how water goes into air and how it comes down and all this is shown on computer screen with the help of animation techniques.

It becomes easy for the students as they can recall easily what they see rather than what they mug up from the books and enables the students to understand the concept properly", said, Mr. Kirti, Director of Arena multimedia, Pitampura centre, Delhi.

Advent of animation has provided a broader scope and dimension to the all the related fields because of Static 3D object modeling and scene designing through computer graphics.

Offering ample opportunities to those who are planning to gear up their career in animation.

Skills Required
To become a good animator, one must possess necessary creative skills. He/she must be creative and should have ability to visualize, imagine, understand the concept and implement it with clarity.

A good animator must have proper Knowledge of basic computer techniques. "Anybody who wants to succeed in, this field must have knowledge of computer tools as one has to learn computer software during the course. Sometimes, we came across instances where some students having immense creativity but no computer knowledge. Here, we taught the very basics of computer applications.

Thus, for getting into animation, your interest and creativity are primarily important.", said Mr. Shrikant, teaching in Maya Academy (Noida).

Job Prospects
Animators find job in various fields whether it is print, electronic, web, architecture, interior designing, gaming or textiles etc. Opportunities for animators are splurging up and these are likely to grow.

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