the quest to create world class VFX, the process has been evolutionary. Indian VFX artistes first honed their skills in VFX that were invisible. This involved set extensions, wire

late 2007 release, VFX is becoming more complex and is being attemp-ted at a much larger scale. In fact, if these films are anything to go by, then the trend of building VFX into

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removal, cleaning up production mi-stakes etc. However with films such as Krrish and Dhoom 2, Tara Rum Pum last year, Indian Visual Effects

the script and creating VFX themed films is increasingly gaining ground in India. Apart from commercial Hindi cinema,  the South Indian market has 

isual Effects (VFX) in Indian films has been a phenome-non in the offing for a while now, previously limited by issues of quality and its ability to actually fit into the scheme of traditional Indian love stories. However the last couple of years have seen something of a paradigm shift in the industry. VFX – both overt and invisible have become a part and parcel of Indian films today. This is primarily on account of the fact that India has fast developed the skill sets to execute on complex VFX projects.
   Although we have come very far in
 

have  truly come  of age. VFX today has become as mainstream as Digital Intermediate (DI) and in a lot of ways the problem has been turned on its head. While earlier it was a question of not enough films being made with VFX built into their stor-ylines, today post production and VFX facilities are dealing with an overwhelming demand from the ma-rket and struggling to scale up fast enough to meet these requirements.
   What’s more, the trend shows no signs of slowing down. With big ba-nner films such as Jodha Akbar, Sav-ariya, Love Story 2050 etc. set for a

grown as well. This year’s block-bust-er– Sivaji – took  VFX   in  South In-dian films to a new level and the work done is a great indicator of thi-ngs to come in regional cinema as well. In fact, Visual Computing Labs (VCL) recently won the 53rd Natio-nal Film Award for Best Special Effe-cts for their work in Anniyan, a Tamil movie that went on to becomea mega blockbuster.
   What is interesting about the VFX boom is the fact that in a lot of ways DI has contributed to the growth in the adoption of VFX. With DI alm-ost  becoming  an  industry  standard,