Computer Generated Imagery Animation and Visual Effects Education in India during the Covid-19 pandemic: A significant assessment

The COVID-19 outbreak has been designated an epidemic in India. Lockdown was implemented on March 25, 2020 to fight COVID-19, affecting the country's school system. It has transformed conventional education into an Ed Tech paradigm where teaching and evaluation are done online. This research tries to highlight the challenges Animation and Visual Effects (VFX) educators experience while teaching and assessing online in India. This study used interpretive phenomenological analysis (IPA). Educators from public and private universities were surveyed. Animation and VFX Online instructors and evaluators were semi-structured. The research identified different types of difficulties experience while teaching and assessing online. Lack of basic amenities, external distractions, family disruptions during instruction and evaluation were key difficulties mentioned. Institutional support hurdles included training, technical assistance, and clarity, lack of understanding of online teaching platforms, In addition to a lack of technical understanding was came out from the research. That's good news for institutions that plan to frequently utilize online Computer-Generated Imagery (CGI) Animation and Visual Effects (VFX) education and evaluation in the future.