Dreamworks, Thompson team up launch animation studio in B’lore

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Bangalore, Jan 14 : Next time you walk into any of the multiplexes to watch an animation movie coming out of Hollywood, there may be a Bangalore connection to it. For, Dreamworks Animation, producers of Shrek, Madagascar, Over the Hedge and The Bee Movie may use their Bangalore studio to co-produce these movies.

“India will become a third site for us. The studio here could work on movies in the future, but that will depend on when we will have the skill sets ready,” Dreamwork’s executive producer Joe Aguilar said. They have two other studios in San Francisco and California.

Dreamworks has allied with digital video technologies’ company Thompson to launch an animation studio in Bangalore. Its parent company Paprikaas - in which Thomson holds a controlling stake - said an additional pool of 250 artists would be hired in the new studio during the next 18 months. Paprikaas currently employs 250 artists across its gaming and animation businesses in India.

The focus would be to develop sufficient capabilities at the studio to conduct work involving custom commercial animation, additive DVD materials, television specials and feature productions, it said.

According to India’s software and services’ apex body Nasscom, the Indian animation development market would become a $950 million market by 2009, growing 34% annually.