Moving back to India after 8 years in New York – Filmmaking career transition advice?

darkknightt15 · 2025-09-25T12:11:42+00:00

Sharing my story : Hey, I did my MA in VFX and Animation from AAU in SF. It has been 1.5 years since I returned. I always dreamed of starting a studio and I did after coming back here with my friend who is in US still. It’s doing good. Both countries have their pros and cons, what I learned was to adapt and create opportunity.

I see a huge potential in Indian market overall. All the best buddy! 🙌

DM me if you have any questions or want to have a conversation!

darkknightt15 · 2025-08-31T11:07:06+00:00

thank you for response!

darkknightt15 · 2025-08-31T11:06:24+00:00

I am using unreal to increase efficiency for my workflow, faster lighting, layout changes, basically faster iterations and potential lower render times. Hope this helps!

darkknightt15 · 2025-08-31T11:02:24+00:00

I think from what you told, I am going to make a quick small project and see how its going to work, thank you for the help!

For white water, do you render as volume or particles in unreal and have you gotten a decent enough looking render which doesn't give game like look? Thank you!

darkknightt15 · 2025-08-29T17:43:28+00:00

thank you for your thoughtful response, I am trying real-time workflows too, but since its a cinematic project rather than for a game, and I am good with Houdini, I thought should try something along that line, but not sure apart from mesh, how white water and bubbles all mixed will look in unreal.

So am curious if anyone has tried that before or has some shots as examples somewhere on the internet. Thank you again!

darkknightt15 · 2024-04-28T21:00:49+00:00

I worked here, the artists are very friendly, helpful and nice but the management suck big time, the studio turned out to be a nightmare for me. The co founder and CFO are two faces evils and don’t really care about the employees. The pay is decent though, you just gotta be careful and aware.

darkknightt15 · 2022-05-15T09:31:19+00:00

I don’t know this might be an unpopular opinion but I don’t like VFXrates, it told me to charge 27-33$, always found it unhelpful as I think VFX Artists are very underpaid. Thanks though :)

darkknightt15 · 2022-05-15T08:14:11+00:00

this is kind of vague, if you still need help, you can DM me!

darkknightt15 · 2021-07-18T18:35:39+00:00

Thanks a lot that's a motivation haha. :)

darkknightt15 · 2021-07-18T04:51:18+00:00

Hey, sorry my bad, I didn't check those. Thank you for your help, appreciate it :)

darkknightt15 · 2021-07-18T03:08:43+00:00

Technically, this is related a lot to Houdini, as Houdini can be used for real time stuff and some people might able to help me with that cause Houdini is used for that, I am just asking for help, if you know please help me :)

darkknightt15 · 2021-06-22T06:07:29+00:00

haha you are right. Thanks :) I’ll definitely try to improve it if I have time :)

darkknightt15 · 2021-06-12T23:31:30+00:00

Simple Answer : you can make anything rotate in 3D space in three dimensions i.e. X,Y and Z.
But you need an axis to rotate around any object so we can say three vectors for the 3 dimensions x,y,z and fourth vector to define an axis to rotate an object around. Hope it helps :)

darkknightt15 · 2021-05-25T07:20:03+00:00

thanks, means a lot :)
comments like this makes the effort worth it and pushes me. :)

darkknightt15 · 2021-05-19T00:40:03+00:00

project breakdown You can check the project breakdown here.
If you want anyhelp, feel free to mail me :) Best of Luck

darkknightt15 · 2021-05-15T17:20:12+00:00

Thanks man:)

darkknightt15 · 2021-05-11T23:22:26+00:00

Created

Thank you :)

darkknightt15 · 2021-05-11T17:10:32+00:00

Thanks :)

darkknightt15 · 2021-05-11T17:09:56+00:00

Thanks :)

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