A typical vfx company will consist of multiple teams like Roto team, compositing team, FX team, Lighting team. Salary is dependent upon the artist category. For example Roto/Paint and Matchmove artist jobs are entry level jobs in vfx and low pay too. They will do remove unwanted things in the scenes, basic colour grade adding, adding basic elements in scenes etc…
Most people enter in this jobs and will work for 1 or 2 years. Later based on their interest level and skill level they will move into other category like Compositing or lighting teams.
Important Note – In this industry skill is the ultimate thing. Some people will join fresher as Roto artist. But within 2 to 4 years they will reach Supervisor level.
I have collected some approximate salary level. These salary details based on chennai. May be Bangalore or Mumbai based artists may get extra upto 10k based on their role.
For
roto and paint for juniors – 15k
Mid – 30k to 40k
Senior or heigher – above 45k
Comp –
Junior – 20k to 25k
Mid – 40k to 60k
Senior – around 70k
Sup and leads – near 1L
Fx –
Junior – 20k to 30k
Mid – 40k to 60k
Senior – min 70k to 1L
Sup and leads – 1L to 1.5L
Lighting
Junior – 15k to 20k
Mid – 35k to 50k
Senior – 70k to 80k
Sup or leads – above or near 1L
Animation
Junior – 20k to 30k
Mid – 40k to 60k
Senior – min 70k to 1L
Sup and leads – 1L to 1.5L
Match move and rotoanimation –
Junior – 15k to 25k
Mid – around 40k
Senior – around 50k
Sup and leads – above 70k
Reason for joining in phantom
- Brand Reputation is there.
- They will give enough time for an artist to perform a task. In vfx 2 things matter. One is money and another one is time. Even if you pour 100 crores of money and expecting a great output within short period of time doesn’t work here.
- Strong pipeline is there. Infra is at par with mnc’s. ILM kind of companies develop their own software or tools for their work. Phantom is still developing on technical side. Trainings will be there. artists will get regular chance to work on more complex projects like international projects.
- work timing is at par. There are vfx studios who torture the employees to work on extended time basis.
Day to work nature
Its not like that for a particular time period all artists will work for a single project. In a typical day usually they work on multiple projects. A comp artist work for an advertisement project. A roto artist at the same time working for an internation movie project. Next day they will work for different project.Generally they will decide these no of tasks (comp,paint,3d, matchmove etc) to be completed in these much time.
While speaking with them they said mostly they work on creative part. Sometimes if they choose to take the whole project, in that sense you need to do basic vfx tasks also. Take example Baahubali, the statue scene or the fight scene may require heavy vfx work. But some scenes just require patch work.
Regarding the domestic or international projects employess must not disclose the projects which they are working currently. But they said recently they are getting more work from vancouver and dubai. When i asked about the this question they are not comfortable to answer (nda policy there)
time line
domestic mostly 3 to 4 months. when it comes to international projects till now they are getting multiple scenes of the movie ( so it depends upon the complexity of the scenes). Offcourse in past they took few whole projects. But presently they are mostly working in sub vendors category in hollywood.
If you have anyother questions feel free to ask. I will try get the answers as muh as possible. 
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