| Animation is the art and science of giving life to still | | | | the best institutes in India that offer courses in the |
| cartoons. It is a science because you need to create | | | | animation sector. |
| an optical illusion by rapidly displaying some related and | | | | |
| unrelated images. But animation courses also teach the | | | | Scope of Animation Courses in India: The animation |
| art of displaying emotions and telling a story. Thus | | | | industry in India is witnessing growth at an |
| animation courses seek to nurture and channelize the | | | | unprecedented rate and the size of India's animation |
| sea of your creative fluids and help you giving shape | | | | market is expected to reach USD 950 million in 2009. |
| to the ideas through a medium that is perhaps the | | | | This is a remarkable growth if we keep in mind the |
| most exciting. | | | | fact that India got exposed to the animation market |
| | | | | only after mid 1990s. India has become a favored |
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| one's aspiration and confidence, students can select | | | | animation industry during the last decade mainly due to |
| from a bouquet of animation courses. Thus animation | | | | the availability of talented animation artists at |
| institutes in India offer various certificate courses, | | | | relatively low costs. Apart from outsourcing, the |
| diploma courses, degree courses and also | | | | expansion of the domestic market has also opened up |
| postgraduate courses. As art is at the core of the | | | | opportunities for the animation artists. |
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| Arts or Master of Fine Arts courses to have an edge | | | | Ironically, the available opportunities have also posed a |
| in animation education. Moreover students may also do | | | | challenge to the industry in the form of demand-supply |
| some specializations in both 2D and 3D pre-production, | | | | gap. But with increasing awareness and popularity of |
| sound engineering, editing, modeling, performance | | | | animation courses, the industry is expected to |
| animation, technical animation and other branches of | | | | overcome its challenges and continue to create new |
| animation. The National Institute of Design, JJ School of | | | | benchmarks. |
| Arts, Industrial Design Center, IIT Mumbai are some of | | | | |