When the outsourcing wave first hit India, it was primarily in the form on call center services. Now, a decade down the line, most call centers have evolved out of their shell of providing mere call-based services and developed into BPOs performing a variety of operations. Now the latest trend is animation outsourcing by several major Hollywood studios.
The full potential of the Indian talent pool has been realized only recently. Nowadays, India is much more than a source of a fluent English-speaking workforce. Companies in the US have began tapping the software and animation talent in the country and hence given rise to animation outsourcing.
India not only possesses some great untapped talent when it comes to the animation industry, but the Indian labor force is up to five to six times cheaper than their counterpart in the US. Right now, the major outsourcing comes from the US, Canada and Europe.
However, experts have predicted that the Indian animation outsourcing industry might soon face stiff competition from other Asian countries such as Korea, Taiwan and Singapore. But for now, animators in India can safely bank on the growing outsourcing within the industry.
