The Funny Side of Indian Animation Industry!!

Well, if you are an aspiring, young Indian animator life isn't funny for you at all, especially after looking at the current scenario of our Indian animation industry. Just few years ago you had a dream of a glamorous, interesting, playful career in your heart. You nurtured it, you believed it, and most of you had also achieved it by getting a job in a studio or company. Bingo! You had your dream come true, experiencing the best day of your life. Finally you have proved the world especially your parents that you can face the world on your own, without having a clue that flames of delight will diminish quickly. And if you haven't experience it yet in your life, than ask your dream to wait for some time. How much? Well, it could be a day, a month or years, who knows? It's a funny business after all. Anybody who works in an animation studio like I do will tell you to reconsider your career prospects if you still have a time in your life.

But I know it isn't that easy, when you have so much passion for this field, you have always envisioned yourself as an animator or an artist and more than anything else when you have to recover those green bucks which you have invested in self-proclaimed 100% job guarantee institutes and animation programs. So what to do now? Well according to me and many experience talented animator that I work with, we have quite a few options with us in order to deal with it:-

•1) Change the field: - If you are not passionate enough about animation this isn't a thing for you at first place anyhow. So the wisest thing to do for you probably will be to pack your bags and move on. Find your true passion and work on it, you have nothing to lose here accept those green bucks, but once you'll find your true love, money won’t matter at all and you will earn it back in no time without much effort.

•2) Keep patience: - If there isn't anything much you can do about it than the best thing is to hang on and wait for the tide to turn, especially when you don't have added responsibilities on your shoulders. Spend your time learning more about this art and try to improve each and every day. If possible spend few more bucks on those reputed animation programs available online, many of them can give you a valuable insight on this market and it also helps you to increase your network at international circuit. So keep patience and play the waiting game and remember "Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

•3) Be the change: - As the famous quote from Mahatma Gandhi goes "You have to be the change you want to see in the world. If you are passionate enough and stubborn enough like me, then the best thing for us is to accept all three points in our life. Didn't get? Let me explain it! The world is unfair and we have to accept it no matter what. There will be obstacles in our way and some of them will be intemperate to deal with. The more we will try to fight the more there will be an equal and opposite reaction. So the best advice for us comes from the movie Rocky balboa " Just get hit and keep moving forward" We can’t just hinge upon our company to pay us for our daily requisites, we have to keep doing what we love and find a new source of income along with it. By changing the field I mean changing it for a particular period of hours in day which will help us to fulfill our necessities at some extent, a part time job, an online business or free-lance work is the best option. Because it's not just about our passion it's also about our responsibilities towards our near and dear once. The things I have elaborated in point number 2 also applies to all of us whether you are a newbie or an experienced artist, as they say we should never stop learning. Well I won't stretch on it as you are intelligent enough to understand it. And as we accept the first two points in our life we automatically becomes the change what we want to see.

Hope it will help you to cope with the situation and make a wise choice for your life. And as far as our industry is concern, I hope our experts will take some necessary steps in order to get it back on track. With sound management and government support things can turn positive and people like us can continue doing what we love to do with rightful returns .Till then "KEEP ANIMATING THE LIFE"!