Hollywood

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Hollywood has long been ruled by the studio system. The studio system includes a selected number of ‘major’ studios who engage in film production & distribution. They release a substantial number of films every year & earn a major share of box office revenues.

With significant changes marking the turning points in Hollywood, the frontrunners become the ‘big’ studios. The current ‘Big Six’ came into being from 1990 to 1995, when Hollywood became more of a conglomerate than a mere film production & distribution unit.

The ‘Big Six’ collectively command approximately 80 – 85 percent of US & Canadian box office revenue. These ‘Big Six’ are: 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros., Paramount Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Universal Pictures & Walt Disney Pictures. Of these, 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros., and Paramount Pictures were part of the original ‘Big Five’ who operated during the Golden Age of Hollywood (late 1920s to mid-1940s). The other three –Columbia Pictures, Universal Pictures & Walt Disney Pictures earned the market share much later.

Warner Bros. Pictures
Warner Bros. Pictures stands at the forefront of the entertainment industry. In 2013, Warner Bros. ruled the movie world with a market share of $5.03 billion globally*. Some of the biggest releases of the studio this year include The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Gravity, and Man of Steel. They also set a new record as the only studio to exceed $1B for 13 years running*. A few other titles that made Warner Bros. the # 1 name in the film industry include the Harry Potter series, the Superman series, The Matrix series & Star Wars.

20th Century Fox is the world’s second largest film studio after Warner Bros. The studio has distributed various commercially successful films, including Avatar, Ice Age, X-Men, Die Hard, Planet of the Apes, Night at the Museum, and Fantastic Four, securing them their position as one of the Big Six studios of Hollywood. Though, some of these sites were shared on movie streaming sites. But still they managed to reach the $1 billion mark in gross domestic revenue in 2014#, and with enormous earnings by the end of the year, the studio’s stunning turnaround easily surpass its previous records.

Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures is the longest operating major studio in Hollywood. It has a century of experience in finest production services from development of story idea to post production. In 2014, Paramount Pictures became the first major Hollywood studio to distribute all its films in digital-form only.

Universal Pictures

Universal Pictures or Universal Studios is best known for three of Steven Spielberg’s biggest hits – Jaws, E.T., and Jurassic Park, each of which became the highest-grossing film ever at the time of its release. The massive backlot of the Universal Studios is used by other film studios including Walt Disney. Parts of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, and the recreation of Whitecap Bay for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides were both shot at Universal Studios backlot

Sony Pictures Entertainment (earlier known as Columbia-Tristar Pictures)

Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) operates Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, Screen Gems, Sony Pictures Classics, and TriStar Pictures. The studio enjoyed its best year in terms of box-office grosses in 2012, with its films collecting US$ 4.4 billion in ticket sales. SPE has produced, distributed, or co-distributed successful film series including Spider-Man, Men in Black, Underworld, and Resident Evil.

Walt Disney Studios

The Walt Disney Studio’s multi-faceted film division produced some groundbreaking films, such as Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs, the first full-length animated movie, and Pinocchio, a film with intricate levels of technical brilliance in animation, that made the studio stand apart. Over the decades, Disney Studio introduced numerous technologies in animation & live action films. Disney’s Steamboat Willie was the first animated film to have synchronized sound & image, Flowers and Trees was the first in the genre with three-strip Technicolor, and Fantasia was the first film to use a multi-channel sound system called Fantasound.
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Best vfx course in chennai details

What is the difference between VFX Plus and ADVFX Plus (Advanced Program in Visual Effects) 
courses, and which one is the better one to opt for?
There are many things to learn in VFX like Keying, Rotoscoping, Tracking, Matching etc., Most of the course curriculum based on the depth/level of the subject they teach, in this case VFX. Many institutes teach and train the VFX students only with the fundamentals. MAAC ADVFX Plus will involve learning the subject to level next. Maybe like learning complete 3D with particles and dynamics, Camera Matching and Mapping, Motion Tracking, matching real world with CGI, Fluid FX, etc., In industry today concepts like roto, keying etc., is ok for beginners but to achieve that extra mile one has to go with advanced techniques.

Course Content

  •   Lighting VFX Workflows with Maya and Arnold.
  •   VFX Post Production: Rendered Passes and Channels.
  •    Advanced Program in Visual Effects process
  • Pre-production
  • Storyboarding
  • Cinematography
  • Stop-motion
  • Digital design
  • Layer based compositing
  • Clean plate & wire removal
  • Motion graphics
  • 3D design
  • Advanced particle effects
  • Cloth FX
  • Pyrotechnics
  • Rigid body simulations
  • Fluid simulation
  • Realistic rendering techniques
  • Advanced compositing
  • Concepts of set extension & CG integration
  • Node based compositing
  • Match moving & camera tracking
  • Stereoscopic conversion
  • Realistic digital environments
  • Procedural FX workflow
  • Project & case studies for motion graphics
  • Project – VFX shot with Miniature Models

Softwares Covered

  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Adobe After Effects
  • Adobe Premiere
  • Adobe Audition
  • Autodesk® 3ds Max®
  • Autodesk® Mudbox®
  • Autodesk® Maya®
  • Adobe Substance 3D Painter
  • Fusion
  • Mocha
  • Silhouette
  • 3D Equalizer
  • Nuke™
  • Real Flow
  • Vue
  • Houdini

Career Options

  • FX Artist
  • Motion Graphics Artist
  • Compositor
  • Camera Tracker
  • Match Moving Artist
  • Matte Painter
  • Clean-up Artist
  • BG Prep Artist
  • VFX Generalist
  • Stereoscopy Artist
  • Depth Artist
  • Video Editor
  • Pre-Viz Artist
  • Roto Artist
  • Paint Artist
VFX Artist salary in India with less than 1 year of experience to 7 years ranges from ₹ 0.2 Lakhs to ₹ 7 Lakhs 
with an average annual salary of ₹ 2.7 Lakhs based on 427 latest salaries.

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3d animation and vfx

3D animation and VFX

VFX is artificial imagery used to create false images and scenes on a screen that are not shot with a raw camera lens. While the animation is the motion graphics and the movement of the graphics and pictures are used. VFX creators do not have to learn 2D and 3D animation.

VFX definition in 3D animation Pipeline

Basically, the VFX stage of the 3D animation pipeline deals with creating complex motions or elements that are too difficult or even impossible to be 3D animated manually or motion-captured. In most cases, 2D VFX can easily solve the problem at the end of the pipeline.

 
A career in animation and VFX has long been underestimated and is not seen as a very lucrative career, particularly in India. However, the reality is just the opposite. According to an estimate, the animation and VFX industry is expected to grow at a CGAR of 17.2% by the year 2021 and will be worth INR 131.7 billion.

 

 

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