Prime Focus opens 50,000 sq. ft. studio facility for 2D to 3D conversion, creating employment opportunities for over 3000 professionals.

Prime Focus, one of the world’s largest visual entertainment services groups, announces the launch of its new facility in Chandigarh. This is the tenth Prime Focus facility in India, which also operates studios in Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Goa and Mumbai.

The 50,000 sq ft, which opens on December 25, 2010, will hold 3000 artists, and be dedicated to working on global projects, utilising Prime Focus’ global digital pipeline which connects India to North America and the UK.

Mr. Merzin Tavaria, Co-Founder & Chief Creative Director (India), commented: “Our new facility in Chandigarh is a major expansion of our View-D™ 2D to stereo 3D conversion capacity.

One of the world's leading animation studio, Prime Focus, has decided to open its studio in Mohali near Chandigarh.

Frameboxx Animation & Visual Effects, India's premier animation training institute with 50 centres across the country, organized a career seminar at Chandigarh, Punjab, December 11, 2010 to apprise the students for growing opportunities in the field of animation and 3D work.

Mr Naveen Gupta, Executive Director, Frameboxx said that a major chunk of Hollywood work for conversion of movies into stereo 3D conversion is being outsourced to India in a big way and one of the leading Indian studio, Prime Focus, has recently bagged an order of US$ 2 billion, and there is a huge demand for trained manpower to handle the work.