Hollywood May Transfer A Lot Of Visual Effects Work To India

International Herald Tribune has an article on how Hollywood could increasingly transfer some of their post-production work like visual effects to India. There is already proof that Indians can do a good job. “The Chronicles of Narnia” became the first Hollywood movie with a substantial Indian contribution to be nominated for an Academy Award for visual effects this year. Some 50 Indians at the Rhythm & Hues India, the Mumbai arm of the Hollywood visual effects studio, worked on the movie. It was another mater that the movie lost the Oscar to “King Kong.”

This is not to suggest that Indians will soon be writing most Hollywood plots or that auditions will have to be conducted from Mumbai. But the overseas assignment of visual effects work illustrates the way Indian workers are chipping away at an imagined barrier between drudge work and the creative process.
“I don’t think creativity is going to be limited to the West,” said Prashant Babu Buyyala, managing director of Rhythm & Hues India, the Mumbai arm of the Hollywood visual effects studio that was the lead effects maker on “Narnia.”

Indians are of course not behind in creativity, but it also saves money for Hollywood studios. The entry- level salary for an artist in India is $2,700 a year, or $1.35 an hour, substantially lower than $40,000 a year, or $20 an hour, in Los Angeles.
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