American video game developer and publisher Epic Games' has announced, ‘The Women Creators Program’ for India. Aimed at promoting more women storytellers to come into the spotlight, the program will select some talented women producers and VFX professionals from India to participate in a four-week-long virtual training and mentoring program.
Starting on April 19, 15 women to selected and mentored by former Unreal fellowship graduates along with Unreal Engine evangelists. The applications are currently open and interested candidates that apply till 10 April.
The ‘Women Creators Program’ was announced on March 25, through a panel discussion with women creators in partnership with ASIFA India. The major aim of ‘The Women Creators Program' is to inspire and train women creators and form a community of creators.
Several evangelists and women mentors are on the panel for the program. Some coveted names include Vani Balgam, Creative Producer-Dancing Atoms; Charuvi Agarwal, Founder, and Director CDL; Marta Ampudia Dalmau; Arvind Neelakantan, Tech Evangelist at Epic Games; Dean Reinhard, Technical Account Manager at Epic Games and Karan Parikh, Founder- Green Rain Studios and Unreal Authorized Instructor partner for Epic Games.
The program will cover the VFX industry’s relevant themes such as Animation and DCC workflows, World Building and Terrain Tools, Lighting and Post Processing, Material Editor, Sequence, Livelink, and Blueprints.
