Animation Bangalore has come a far distance from the inception and opening up of the first of its Bollywood kind animation institute. In the last 5 years, this institute has trained well over three thousand animation professionals for the industry. When asked what is the percentage of students placed by this institute which was started by a Hollywood returned creative artist and actually took shape in – Hyderabad the current cyber city; a professional could just return a meager 20%  figure.

Further analysis shows that even today, more than 40% aspirants doing various courses in animation in Bangalore have taken it as a hobby course, merely a ‘filler’ in between their +2 and career choice. About 20% of the left over were already working in the same or other industry after completely hurrying through a short term animation training course in another institute which has only resulted in their becoming a ‘computer operator’ rather than becoming a ‘creative artist’. They have returned back to their ‘animation disks’ and ‘maya consoles’ to upgrade their skills in hope of reaching much higher in the food chain.

As per the official, top 20% of the passing out are crème de la crème who have may be dropped out of the engineering colleges, left their jobs as teachers and marketing personnel and have delved deep into the industrial training nuances to fulfill their desire of someday getting to a better position in animation industry. They are blind to all distractions and have focused their aim to get their faster. Many of these are actually having relatives, or peers in other established production houses and piggyback with an ease. These are the arrogant lot who believe in themselves and have pre-calculated their career path to the finest details. Not to mention, these do not heed to placement calls and do not attend smaller interviews made available by the inexperienced placement executives. This returns the final 20% figure of students required to be placed.

Clearly, this leaves only about 20 of each 100 students trained by the industry today who are actually inclined to create a niche and were reasonably able to gather entry level skills to be taken seriously. These will continue to find their careers in the non-organised sector of Bangalore Animation Industry and across the states, to Pune, Mumbai, Chennai and even as far as Delhi.

Questions that should concern Animation Bangalore are :

1. Should the industry spend its efforts in training 40% of those who will not join the industry?
2. Should the curriculum be organized so that students do not have to come back and get trained after taking a break from their careers?
3. Should there be a better awareness campaign to teach people about actually sustainable career prospects available in the Bangalore Animation industry today?
4. Should there be more industry and academia platforms to bring the two together to increase the training qualities?
5. Should Government sit up and notice and recognize the industry so that it can be organised?

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