Pursuing Animation in India

Animation is a beautiful career field. Although pursuing animation in India is a really difficult job if you compare other countries to India. Since everyone else around you is going into engineering and science streams, its really difficult to convince your parents to let you go into a stream totally different from the norm.

I'm going to be listing a few things which i think are important for pursuing animation before explaining them in detail.
Listed below are the things i think are important to look for before going for animation:-
1)Types of institutes offering animation
2)Types of degree
3)Jobs offered
4)Effort needed

• Types of Institutes that offer animation

After looking all over internet, shiksha.com, collegedunia.com, you can categorise all institutes into 2 types: One that gives you a degree after completion of the course and The other one that does not give you a degree after the completion of the course(they may give diploma).

Institutes like MAAC, Arena Animation, ZICA, are the one with excellent course structure but do not give you a degree, whatsoever. These institutes are NOT UGC approved.
I am not against these institutes but i am just telling you what you will get yourself into.

Others are the colleges and universities who do give you a degree after completion but the course structure vary college to college.
To see more details, look onto my new blog posts.

• Types of degree you get in animation

This category mainly focuses on the colleges and not private institutes. Yes, so looking all over the net you can guess the two(or three) main types of degree for animation.
B.Des or Bachelor of Design. is offered by institutes like National Institute of design, IDC-IIT, etc.
They are a 4 year course. These are very very different from the course of  private institutes. I'll get into detail in my other blog posts.

Then there is B.Sc. or Bachelor of Science offered by BITS, Amity, Whistling woods. The course duration vary from college to college, but the norm duration is of 3 years.
This is a very vast and debatable topic, so I will get into detail in my other blog posts.

• Jobs Offered

Well, it is quite obvious that, since the institutes and the degrees vary so much, obviously the job offers you'll be getting will be different and unexpected to say the least. You in any case won't be getting a job offer from disney or pixer studio in India unless you go for masters in US.

• Effort

This is a totally different topic on its own so keep updated with my blog to know more about it if you still decide to stick around with animation.