Jobs In The Indian Animation Industry!

The Funny Side of Indian Animation Industry: Advice for budding artists for getting into Indian animation.

Finding jobs in the Indian animation industry can be challenging. And if you are an aspiring, young Indian animator, life isn’t fun for you at all. Just a few years ago, you had a dream of a glamorous, fascinating, 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 to the world, especially your parents, that you can face the world on your own without knowing that flames of delight will diminish quickly. And if you haven’t experienced it yet in your life, then 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 the indian animation industry like I do or will tell you to reconsider your career prospects if you still have 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, you have to recover those green bucks invested in self-proclaimed 100% job guarantee institutes and animation programs. 

So what to do now? Well, in my opinion, and many experience talented animators that I work with, we have quite a few options with us to deal with it:-

•1) Change the field: – 

If you are not passionate enough about animation, this isn’t a thing for you in the 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 except those green bucks, but once you find your true love, money won’t matter at all, and you will earn it back in no time without much effort.

•2) Keep patients: – 

If there isn’t anything much you can do about it, then 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 valuable insight into this market. It also helps you increase your network on the 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 and I quote, 

“You have to be the change you want to see in the world.” 

 

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 an alternate source of income along with it. 

By changing the field, I mean changing it for a particular period of hours in a day. This will help us to fulfill our necessities to some extent; a part-time job, an online business, or freelance work is the best option. Because it’s not just about our passion, it’s also about our responsibilities towards our near and dear ones as well. 

The things I have elaborated on in point number 2 also apply 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 it as you are intelligent enough to understand it. And as we accept the first two points in our lives, we automatically become the change 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 concerned, things seem to be improving for good compared to a few years ago. With sound management and government support, things can turn positive. People like us can continue doing what we love to do with rightful returns. 

Till then, 

“STAY ANIMATED STAY MOTIVATED “! 

And If you want to know more about the challenges in our industry, do read the segment “The Faults in Our Art!”