Microsoft, however, which is attempting to enter the market with new software, will feel less of an effect, industry experts said.
It uses three factors: the national effect (factors common among all industries nationally), the compositional effect (industry-specific factors at a national level), and the regional effect (factors unique to each industry at a regional level).
That review, by Ian Livingstone and Alex Hope, who are leading figures in the games and visual effects industries, called for the poor state of ICT in schools to be "urgently tackled".
In 2010, Ed Vaizey, the culture minister, commissioned him as joint author of a report on the skill needs of the video games and video effects industries.
Culture minister Ed Vaizey asked Livingstone to jointly write a report on the skills shortage in the video games and visual effects industries.
Mr Livingstone co-authored, with Alex Hope, of visual effects company Double Negative, theNext Gen report- an examination of how IT education in UK schools could better meet the needs of the games and visual effects industries.
It is just four years since two leading figures in the games and visual effects industries produced a document calling for a transformation in the way computing was taught in the UK.
In 1999, Debevec débuted the film at SIGGRAPH, the annual conference for the special-effects industry.
Will the visual-effects industry finally create animated eyes that satisfy our real ones?
(Another contributor wonders whether the creationist idea of divine action hasn't been "unduly affected by the 'special effects' industry").
The Rhythm and Hues bankruptcy compounds financial troubles across the effects industry, which has been affected by intense global competition.
