last week the bangalore team at a production and postproduction facility creating digital visual effects and computer animation for feature films and advertisements which worked on life of pi lop got to lay its hands on the oscar the film won for best visual effects earlier this year bt speaks to mark benson the global md of the vfx company that created the effects and biren ghose the country head of the studio that provided the entertainment services for the filmhow special is this visit for the bangalore vfx team that worked on lopmark its a significant celebration because weve brought our friend here points at the oscar and we will share in the excitement and celebration of the achievement of winning a visual effects oscar for lop and to acknowledge the critical contribution that our colleagues in bangalore made to the success of the film the work we did on lop was done in vancouver and london as well biren our celebration is about the success of the movies we did last year three of our movies were shortlisted for the oscar skyfall prometheus and lop two of these movies were nominated for the oscar and one of them won ithow did you decide which studios work on which sequencesmark we were awarded fundamentally all the water work the oscar was shared between our facility and another one that created the tiger and graphicallygenerated creatures once weve been awarded those shots we shared the responsibility for delivering those them across our business based on where we are best placed to do certain aspects of that work there are also people who think that indian vfx is very derivative and not on par with international standardsbiren id say whats the most likely scenario for the local film industry to grow you can have it by having people whove worked on the best movies that are able to figure out how to create costeffective methods of doing something similar appropriate to the budgets of the regionwould you consider working on vfx for indian studiosmark we are already seeing a good number of advertising spots being finished in our london office so i hope that is the case in the nottoodistantfuture biren in india as you start seeing more 1000crore budget movies you will start seeing that those movies are capable of employing worldclass vfx in the future which today they cannot and as that happens that becomes an important market for us to keep an eye on