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| Animation is a booming industry with a wide variety of jobs available. |
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| Industry overview |
Animators
can work on full-length animation movies, create television
commercials, make DVDs, make games for Internet, mobile, PC or consoles
(like PlayStation or XBox), work in the advertising industry or as web
designers. The e-learning industry also uses animators and so do fields
like medicine, engineering and architecture. |
| The entertainment industry including movies, TV programmes and Special Effects (VFX) for movies or TV is a major employer. |
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typical animated film requires 700 to 800 animators. Of the 30,000
animation studios around the world, 70 percent have a turnover of US $1
million. |
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India,
South Korea, Philippines, Singapore, Japan and China are seeing a
deluge of outsourced animation work from across the globe. Indian
companies are creating a number of animated films and cartoons for US
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latest NASSCOM statistics predict the size of the Indian animation
industry to be US $1.5 billion by 2009. Currently, it is at US $550
million. India has over 300 animation studios employing over 12,000
animation professionals. In addition to outsourcing, content is being
made for the Indian market as well. Films like Hanuman, Krishna, My Friend Ganesha, etc. have proved that animation can make huge profits at the box office.
Animation is a global industry with a large turnover (estimated at $59
billion in 2006) and a growing demand; this is causing a shortage of
skilled people. |
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| Career options |
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| There is a wide variety of jobs available in the animation industry, some of which are as follows: |
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Designer |
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Audio & video specialist |
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Visualiser |
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| Graphic designer |
Graphic Designing
A graphic designer is responsible for the layout and presentation of different types of
media (such as a poster, a package or a website)
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Multimedia author |
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| Web designer |
Web designer
A web designer creates webpages. Web designers use graphic design skills as also tools like
Flash, HTML, CSS, etc.
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| Modeler |
Modeler
Modelers facilitate the filming of puppets or any form of 3D models.
The puppets are positioned and filmed before being moved slightly and
filmed again. This gives the impression that the models are moving. A
modeler should have a solid understanding of anatomy, form and volume.
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| Texture artist |
Texture artist
A texture artist applies a surface to the 3D modeled character, object
or environment. Coordinates are laid out to give the model an
applicable surface for colour and texture.
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| Rigging artist |
Rigging artist
Texture artist
A rigging artist takes the modeled, textured 3D character or object and
sets it up with a skeletal system or joints (if required). Without this
step, the 3D model would not be able to animate, talk or move fluidly
and correctly.
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| 2D animator |
2D animator
2D animation involves the creation of a high volume of separate
drawings that define a sequence. This technique is widely used in
creating characters for animations and cartoon programmes.
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| Lighting artist |
Lighting artist
Lighting an animation requires the artist to create variations of
shade, colour intensity and shadows that would have been produced if it
had been a real-life scene with one or more light source.
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| Rendering artist |
Rendering artist
Rendering artists take all the data in a scene such as models,
textures, animation, lighting, etc and output the correct combination
in the form of individual frames of animation.
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| 3D animator |
3D animator
The 3D animator takes the sculpted (or modeled), textured and rigged 3D
model and breathes life into it. This is done by putting in order the
key frames such that they appear to be in motion.
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| Compositing artist |
Compositing artist
Compositing consists of layering individual frames of animation on top
of one another to create final images. These images are then strung
together to create complete shots or mini animated movies.
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| Editor |
Editor
An editor assembles various visual and audio components of the film into a coherent and effective whole
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| Storyboard artist |
Storyboard artist
A storyboard artist creates a series of panels that contains a visual
interpretation of the screenplay – much like a comic book
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| Character animator |
Character animator
A character animator brings characters to life and generally has
knowledge of traditional animation, stop-motion animation as well as
claymation
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| Effects artist |
Effects artists
Effects artists create a believable world for the action to take place in.
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| In-between artist |
In-between artist
Tweening (short for in-betweening) consists of drawings that are
inserted between the ‘key’ or important drawings to make the first
image flow smoothly into the next one.
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Image editor |
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Multimedia developer |
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Digital post-production artist |
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| Special effects artist |
Special effects artist
Special effects artists integrate live-action footage with Computer
Generated Imagery (CGI) or other elements (such as model work)
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