March 3 , 2006 - There is a lot of high end VFX, animation and simulation work happening at VCL.
On the VFX front, in India last year we worked on Bose, Bunty aur Babli, Neal N Nikki, Salaam Namaste, this year too there's quite some interesting stuff coming up. Our work for Rang De Basanti, the latest rage in Bollywood has been highly appreciated and it's something we are proud of. In the pipeline there's theatre actor Feroz Khan's My Father Gandhi, Karan Johar's Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna, Dhoom 2 and two other big films which I cannot disclose as of now.
In Hollywood last year we delivered XXX2 and Into the Blue. We are in the finishing stages of One Night with the King which is a Biblical tale starring Peter O Toole and Omar Sharif. The story involves a palace which is surrounded by hills. The producers after research zeroed upon the Umedbhavan Palace in Rajasthan and our team has really enjoyed the challenge of doing the whole thing in CG with some great research work and referencing. There's also a lot of walk cycles and illumination FX in the movie.
There's also a top of the league Hollywood film we are working on which should be released by end of '07 and another Horror movie with an A grade Hollywood actor.
At VCL we have long term plans on HR and we are against the artificial inflation that happens in the industry due to poaching and job jumping where people with just 2-4 years experience demand and get extremely high salaries without actually focusing on honing their skills and bringing value to the table.
If you had a 1000 animators coming out every year the industry will no longer have the manpower problem. We are talking to international academic institutions to share their expertise and to design courses where students will be taught how to think animation and then develop domain knowledge within the graphics realm. That domain knowledge can be then applied for games, VFX, animation, simulation VR etc.
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