About Hero Animations Academy
Hollywood Evolved Research Oriented Animations
Academy Aka HERO Animations Academy
Hollywood Evolved Research Oriented Animations Academy (HERO Animations
Academy) - is a sincere attempt on part of a few committed professionals
in the field of Animation & Digital Art Media. It is our endeavour to turn out self-driven,
top class professionals in this field who derive utmost satisfaction
from challenges at work and deadlines. This industry focus sets us apart
from others in this field and if, we may say so, is also one of our competitive
advantages.
HERO, incorporated as Educational Institute for Animation, Multimedia
& digital design since 2009. For the last 2 years we have produced many
skilled designers most of them are working with some of the most renowned animation
studios, multimedia houses, e-learning companies, national dailies,
& web design firms etc.
HERO is tied up with UGC approved Annamalai University to provide Certificate,
Diploma and Degree programmes to its students in Media Graphics
and Animation.
At HERO, we innovate design study by giving an apt environment
i.e. full of daily regular sessions, project works, assignments, environmental
study, group discussions, celebrating design events, and contest and excursion trips.
Unified method of teaching also include, updating students through
various workshops, symposiums & design shows.
HERO has diversified its training programmes around the Fashion
Designing, Digital art, Media graphics & Animation, thereby students
has a choice to enrol a course ranging from 3 months to 3 years and can customized
their course curriculum according to their own requirements.
HERO has always been a special choice for the international students
coming to India. In the recent past we have trained a number of
students from Europe, West and North Africa, Middle East, Eastern Asia, and some
SAARC countries. We have got a special policy for the international
candidates by offering them small/ personalized batches with longer time duration,
helping them to complete their courses in a strict time schedule.
Vision
Hero Animations Academy (HAA) prepares students for careers where skills
and professionalism count. HAA train their students for successful careers
in animation, concept design, advertising, graphic design, art direction, comic
books and graphic novels. They promote the development of good work
habits. HAA offers small class size 1:16 ratio, serious individual instructions
and highly qualified instructors.
Why Animation?
Animation is a fast-emerging high-paying career option and become an
animator, one needs intensive training in 2D or 3D animation.
Professional diploma programs in animation and multimedia are available for higher
study. One can specialize in creating animation characters, creating
two- and/or three-dimensional shapes, special visual effects, video game programming,
game art and so on. The basic requirement is that students must have excellent creative
and artistic abilities such as flair for drawing, sketching or
caricaturing.
On the employment front, opportunities are many. Cartoon animation,
film animation, digital post-production, advertising, gaming, special
effects are some of the avenues that offer good career scope.
Animation application areas include many avenues in the following:
- Entertainment (movies and television)
- Business (product promotions and marketing demos)
- Sales (presentations)
- Education (Computer Based Tutorials/Web Based Tutorials)
- Publishing (graphics and printing)
- Virtual reality in Defense
- Web designing
- Engineering
- Advertising (commercials and print ads)
- Fashion designing and interior designing
- Development of computer games/mobile games
- Medical, legal and insurance industry (presentations and models)
- Studios and training institutes
Career Prospects
The Indian animation industry is currently at US $500 million and is
expected to reach US $1.5 billion by the year 2009. Yet, statistics
reveal not even half of the manpower requirement in the animation industry is being
fulfilled in India. With international companies such as Walt Disney,
Warner Brothers and Fun Bag Animation looking at India for sourcing content as well
as doing projects in collaboration with the Indian animation companies,
there has been a growing demand for animators.
NASSCOM says that India's gaming industry (computer games and mobile
games) is expected to generate $424 million by the 2010.
NASSCOM has projected a creation of an additional 300,000 jobs in this sector in
next few years.
In the animation industry you can work as:
- Modeler
- Layout artist
- Clean-up artist
- Scanner operator
- Digital ink and paint artist
- Compositor
- Key frame animator
- Background artist
- In-between animator
- Average Salary
After completing the on job training in some leading animation production
studio, you can earn around Rs. 12000 to 15000 as a junior animator.
A senior animator with an experience of 3 to 5 years can take home a sum of Rs.30000
to Rs.40000. If you have a portfolio of some outstanding animation work
you can expect to earn more than Rs.50000 to Rs.60000.
Important links to give more information about Animation Industry
- Animation Insider
- Nasscom
- Financial Express
- India Tribune
- Market Publishers
- Study Places
- Ezine Articles