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While several Hollywood studios are outsourcing VFX work to India, you’ld be remiss to forget about the Czechs.

Even during the salad days before the crash, Prague post facilities were surprising skeptical foreign crews with their precision and professionalism, as shingles such as UPP scored vfx work for such pics including “Flight 93,” “AVP: Alien vs. Predator,” “Perfume: The Story of a Murderer” and Francis Ford Coppola’s “Youth Without Youth.”

The article points out that the Czechs are mostly interested in complete start-to-finish work, but I suspect that in this economy anyone is willing to take work.

via Czechs beef up visual effects firms – Entertainment News, World Report: Central Europe / Karlovy Vary Film Festival, Media – Variety.

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With the recent closing of some old names in the VFX industry, the effects of last year’s writer’s strike are more evident than ever. Combined with the recent economic downturn and studios are looking at new and creative ways to trim budgets and save costs.  One of the newer tools is outsourcing VFX work from the big names in Hollywood to India.  COO of Mumbai’s Visual Computing Labs notices it:

“In 2003 and 2004, when I would visit the U.S. and meet with visual effects companies, I’d be told we can’t outsource it. It requires creative control and you are too far away,” said Pankaj Khandpur, the company’s creative director.

Now, he said, those naysayers are telling him, “’Hey, let’s talk.”’

via India grabs more U.S. film special effects work : Tech : Ventura County Star.

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If you’re near Kolkata City in India sometime in the near future, you might want to check out the Science City Bypass address.  They are in the process of installing an immersive “edutainment” system to create immersive environment recreations of such spectacles as Mt Everest, the moon, and the Amazon Rainforest.

It is in this hall that the 3D Immersive Visualization Facility will be installed. “This is a technology that makes a virtual situation feel real. For instance in the Mt Everest programme the situation around you will be set in such a mode that you will actually feel you are standing on top of the world s tallest peak “

via Trip to the moon at Science City – Kolkata – Cities – The Times of India.

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