From VOA Learning English, this is the Technology Report.Not everything you see in Hollywood movies is real. Some of the beautiful, strange, scary images might have been produced on a computer.They are called visual effects. They once were produced only in Hollywood, but that has changed.New technology makes it possible for one film to include visual effects created in different countries.Venkatesh Roddam is the chief executive officer of Reliance MediaWorks in India."In the last five to seven years is where you've seen an explosion of content getting processed in different parts of the world,Not just India, but China, Taiwan, Korea, India; these are all the markets that content from Hollywood is going to," said Roddam.Dave Rand is a co-founder of the Association of Digital Artists, Professionals &Technicians.He says that sending visual effects work overseas hurts U.S. companies."I've been at 12 different visual effects companies. I've been on the staff of five, all of which have gone bankrupt for one reason or another;basically it's only two, the way we work and the subsidy race that's driven so many of them out of business," said Dave Rand.
