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AVGC-XR (animation, VFX, gaming, comics & extended reality)
What it is
Animation, Visual Effects, Gaming, Comics and Extended Reality - the government's grouping for the content-technology sector, backed by a National Centre of Excellence and a promotion task force
India's role has historically been outsourced execution for global studios, and policy aims to shift it toward original IP creation and higher-value work
Impact on industries
- Cost advantage and English-language technical talent make India a natural hub, with global studios already routing substantial VFX and animation work here
- Feeds directly into streaming and film demand, so growth in OTT commissioning pulls domestic post-production and animation capacity with it
- Service work captures little of what a title earns - the studio owns the IP while India bills hours, and generative AI threatens that mid-skill layer
- Policy ambition is IP creation rather than services, but that requires financing risk and global distribution access, neither of which a skills mission supplies