 Okay, don't look. I am not looking. Don't look. My eyes are closed. Okay. Okay. It's a movie. Yes. It stars people. Yes. It's Hindi. Yes. Amitabh Bachchan. Yes. Black. No. Sholay. No. Okay. SRK? Nope. Okay. Newer? Newer? No. It's older. Yes. The one I don't like. Am I Akbar Anthony? No. Okay. Older and we've seen it. Yes. And it's not Sholay. It's not Akbar Anthony. Even we're acting to do a scene from it. Oh. Oh crap. His breakthrough one. No. No? Anand? Yeah. No. Crap. I don't know. Divar. Josh! Hey welcome back to our Stupid Reaction News of Corp. I'm Boom. And you can follow us on Instagram, Twitter for more juicy content. Thanks on Patreon. Follow us on Twitter to the account. Subscribe to our Stupid Reactions. Yeah man. Yeah. Do it. La la la la la. There we got a information. This is, is India taking over VFX industry? No. So this is about obviously, I don't know if it's out already, but we saw a corridor correct into RRR, but this is the overall, them talking about India and taking over. Well. In terms of not just India stuff, they're doing Hollywood stuff for Hollywood. Yes. And all that kind of stuff. So yeah, I mean, we've talked about this before. Just in the three years we've been watching, the evolution of the visual effects in India, they went from being way behind to now, not just on par, but right on that leading edge. And the only reason you'll see any difference is because they won't spend as much here. Right. Right, but like I know for example, I don't know how many companies. We were told this from Minimal Nari. We were told this for RRR, that the VFX houses, which is the truth for a lot of industries all over the world, it's no longer homegrown. It's VFX places all over the planet. You can have 10 different places working on your VFX stuff. In different countries. So I'm interested to see this, but yes, it is, I wanted massive alcohol. I'm with you. I already been to the gym, so I can imbibe with you. Here we go. Nice. In 2011, the size of the Indian VFX industry was around 31 billion dollars. But within 10 years, it has risen to massive 74 billion. With international companies like MPC, that have a negative frame store or digital domain establishing their offices there, and now shifting from potoscoping and cleanup to creative visual effects creation, India's VFX industry will surely continue to grow. Having its own huge film industry, India has also established its own VFX companies over the years. What made the Indian VFX companies rise constantly in the last decade? Let's find out. Shabu Khan. The king did. This video is sponsored by F-Truck, the creator of Academy Award Emmy-winning production tracking and media review solutions for VFX and other creative industries. Hey, stranger things. I'll talk more about it at the end of this video. And now let's talk about India's VFX industry. Ha! The turning point was in the 1990s when CGI, computer generated imagery, started gaining importance and that was also noticed by the Indian industry. Soon, Indian companies decided to advance themselves to match with international competitors. Until recently, everyone associated India with rotoscoping. It was the number one place for outsourcing this kind of work. Also, so-called paint and cleanup work, which usually means wire-wrapping, wire removal, painting out unwanted objects, was being sent to India. Big VFX companies, like they mentioned, NBC have established their branches in India to have their own teams for such work. However, a gigantic film industry, there's around 1,800 films being produced in India each year compared to around 700 made in Hollywood. Clearly developed in need for visual effects. Due to relatively lower budgets, those effects had to be created locally and so India's VFX studios began to emerge. Prime Focus, Makuta VFX or Red Chili's are just a couple of examples of India's VFX powerhouses. Those companies are responsible for some amazing effects created for Indian films, but they begin to spread on international productions. Red Chili's is one of the leading firms in the country that has now more than 300 artists working for them. Their scope of work ranges from beauty work, environments and set extensions, creature creation, simulations. Their credits include some Indian blockbusters, but they also had a bite on international productions like Sin City 2 or League of Gods. Dang. VFX is not just about film projects. Commercials are today in demand for visual effects as well. One of the leading firms named Famous Studios claims to deliver 15 to 20 TV ads each month with heavy VFX work. Along with the VFX industry, the animation studios in India bloom and companies like Green Gold Animation or Toon's Animation are producing dozens of animated films and series for Indian and international markets. Oh, really? India's VFX industry is quickly catching up with the latest technology trends. It's no different with the virtual production. Stages with LED screens, as originally used in the production of Mandalorian, are being built in India and were used to continue producing movies during the pandemic. Actually, despite the massive impact of COVID-19, the animation industry in India grew by 10% in 2020, while the whole economy was going down. Some of India's biggest films featuring heavy VFX work include Bhanubali, produced in 2015 with a budget of approximately 28 million dollars and 90% of the movie having some kind of visual effects created by 17 VFX studios and around 600 artists. Imagine if they spent the amount of money we spent here. This film will be released 2.0. Oh, yeah. And the 2018 science fiction film being the most expensive Indian film so far with around 76 million dollars budget. Visual effects were created by Double Negative and 22 other companies and animatronic effects by U.S. based... Green Oxygen! known for Avatar, Avengers or Jurassic World. Zero, a 2018 romantic comedy for which the main actors fight had to be reduced to around 137 centimeters. Visual effects were provided by Red Chili's DFX. Amazing. Over the years, the demand for visual effects all over the world has increased dramatically. VFX studios were opening branches in different parts of the world to catch up with the demand and to gain access to new artists. In the meantime, VFX artists in India gained experience and were now ready to move from simple tasks to more demanding ones. This is especially visible with... Now our aren't. The London-based VFX company was bought by Indian Prime Focus in 2014. Originally, Dinex Indian offices were taking over rotoscoping and cleanup work. But recently, we see that more complex work like compositing or effects simulations are being done in their... The Dune? That was the case with Dune, Matrix Resurrections or the Uncharted. Top-notch VFX in that film. The rapid growth of India's VFX industry is also influenced by government financial incentives and wider education possibilities with universities offering VFX and animation studies. Some of the most known are Unibrain School of Media Design, MAAC, Mayan Academy of Advanced Cinematics, National Institute of Design or Sampit University. Despite VFX industry growing constantly since the last decade, the younger generation in India and their parents are still facing difficulty getting out of the century-old mindset of pursuing career in law, government service, engineering or healthcare. Yeah. But the career trends are quickly changing. Visual effects industry gets more recognition and starts offering good financial... Tell your kids to do something in computers. Junior VFX artists in India can earn around 150 to 350 US dollars per month. Mid-level artists can expect 400 to 800 dollars and senior VFX artists earn up to around 1500 dollars per month. Come to America. Lead artists and supervisor salaries can be substantially higher. Obviously, I know India's cheaper. I get that. The cost of living... India's VFX industry has now managed... You'd be making six figures here. ...of the global market and is expected to rise by 25% in 2025. On technicolor. ...even if we take a large chunk of the world's VFX production. However, with growing demand for visual effects... Wouldn't be surprising if India becomes the leader. I don't think that we would see an outflow of jobs from Europe or America. Huge number of film and episodic productions for numerous streaming platforms will simply create new opportunities for VFX artists around the world, including India. Now back to our sponsor, EFTRAC. EFTRAC Solutions. Yeah, wouldn't shock me if in the next 10 years it kind of veers over to, like, Marvel stuff has been sent over to India. Not only because obviously the quality is good but also the fact that they're gonna be probably cheaper too. Yeah. Unless India starts asking the normal prices of VFX companies in America. Right. Maybe they already do. I have no clue what the asking rates for actual VFX companies are, but I know it's high. Yeah, and it's not going anywhere because so much visual effects work is... I'd love to know the ratio because it wouldn't surprise me if more visual effects work is done on simple VFX, like when they were walking down the hall and they just created the hallway chandelier. Rather than building a set, I mean, you're gonna be paying out for the CGI but time is money. And so rather than have to do all that carpentry and have to set that up, to just be able to add what you need is huge. Probably it's... Even though it's cost a lot, it's cheaper to do VFX work than it is for lumber, man hours, all that kind of stuff. Weather, yeah, it's quite insane. So yeah, it would save time. And it wouldn't shock me with just also depending on Braham Astra, how well that film does and how good it looks in theaters and we're obviously very hopeful. Yeah, it looks as good as the trailer for it, but the fact that RRR, obviously, even though we had issues with KGF II, the visuals were obviously gorgeous in KGF II and Pushpa as well. The VFX weren't the issues in those films that we had with those films. So the fact that the artistry is already there and now you just, I wouldn't shock me if you just see companies now pouring money with the success that RRR is having here in America, being like, please make more and give them a hundred million dollar budget. Yeah, because the quality is, it's there now. Because the only thing that's gonna make it any better is you just pouring more money into it. Obviously you have the talent of the directors, the actors outside of white artists. Outside of white artists. You pour more money in there and get good artists. Yeah, it's true. We know the reason for it. It really is true, you get what you pay for. Yeah, 100% know why there's bad white actors. It's quite obvious now. But just pour more money into it and I think companies are gonna, you're gonna start seeing more international stuff. And they will when they see the returns they get on films like RRR. And that's why, again, on the one hand, when you're talking about the artistry of a film, the box office doesn't matter. That's not a measure of how good a film is or not. The thing that's important about the box office is what it does and communicates to the filmmakers and the distributors and producers because when a movie makes money, they take note and they make more movies like it. Yeah. Yeah, so. That was a good video. Great video. Let us know what other videos we can react to and if you're part of VFX, let us know down below. Come work for a, I don't know. Stay where you're actually gonna make good money. Make money.