MULTIMEDIA Software are usually a sound word among millions of students and aspiring designers and animators.
Both Graphics and animation industry have merged in India along with parallel Hollywood’s visual effects animation.
A$70 billion industry by 2005, multimedia and animation may prove to be the sunrise sector.
Indian Film Industry can compete the world market by animation and visual effects providing career scope for both aspiring students in India and world market for making animation industry happen in India that to in Mumbai, Chennai, Hydrabad.
Remember the Indian movies Hey Ram and Hindustani or the special effects in Daler Mehndi’s famous music albums or any films Opening Title reel. Or remember the movie, Twister, where a crow flew across the screen? The mind-blowing special effects in cartoon films, movies like Matrix or the more recent Spiderman.
Do you know who is behind all these breathtaking effects - a multimedia artist at work who specialises in animation. There is no need for today’s artists to work with easels, palettes and brushes. This is the computer age. Much larger canvases are opening up for artists to indulge in, thanks to the swift technological advances. Today it is the mouse, rather than the brush that is used to give vent to the artist’s imagination.
Career
This is creating plenty of career opportunities that didn’t exist earlier.
’Multimedia’ technology is something that integrates video, audio, text and graphic components in an interactive format from movies to education.
The applications of multimedia are wide-ranging:
- internet applications, designing, broadband application, animation on Web, Web development, streaming videos, network publishing, graphics, printing, eBooks, fashion industry, apparel design, jewellery designing, interior designing, garment Designing, engineering design, assembly designs, CD Rom, interactive kiosks, computer-based tutorials, corporate presentations, marketing and sales, and engineering applications.
Similarly, the job opportunities for multimedia specialists include high growth careers in music, publishing, graphic arts, films, television, advertising and corporate communications.
There are two main work areas for a multimedia professional:
One is the creation of graphics, animation and usage of audio-video.
The other is the application of multimedia for a range of usages including ebooks, CD-Roms, corporate and marketing presentations, TV and films.