Career as an Animator by Institute For Career Research

Author:Institute For Career Research [Institute for Career Research]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Institute For Career Research
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Personal Qualifications

First and foremost, animation requires talent. It also requires a rare combination of maturity and childishness. And if you're not willing to constantly refine and expand your skills, you're looking into the wrong business.

Animating the inanimate requires a great deal of skill. The first building block in the creation of any skill is talent, the innate flair that makes some things easier than others. If you didn't have some artistic talent, you probably wouldn't have picked up this report. You have probably already begun to turn you talent into skill by taking art classes in school and by drawing or painting in your spare time. You'll work even harder when you get to college. There you'll learn the basics of animation: squash and stretch, anticipation, staging, straight ahead action and pose-to-pose, follow-through and overlapping action, slow in and slow out, arcs, secondary action, timing, exaggeration, solid drawing and appeal. This is complex stuff. You may be willing to work hard to develop your skills, but you won't get very far if you don't have artistic talent to begin with.

Most animated films are made with children in mind. The best films appeal to people of all ages, but they all require viewers to willingly suspend their disbelief. Along with persistence of vision, suspension of disbelief is one of the conditions that makes animation possible. Nobody believes that animals can speak, at least not in English, but we temporarily forget about this disbelief - suspend it - in order to watch a cartoon about talking animals. Children suspend their disbelief easily and willingly accept contrivances like a forest filled with talking animals who come to the aid of humans. You will absolutely, positively have to maintain a childlike ability to suspend your disbelief if you want to make it big in the field of animation.

Animation is changing at an extremely rapid pace. The field has always been a hotbed of innovation and open to new ideas and techniques, but the advent of CG animation is making unprecedented waves across the industry. If you pursue a career as an animator you will need greater technical skills than the animators who came before you. You will be in some kind of training, at least part time, for your entire career. If you love to continue learning, you may have what it takes to succeed in animation.

Animation is part of the legend and mystique of Hollywood, and a part of the industry that many people want to work in. For those with a truly creative mind and endless imagination, there may be no more appealing career. What could be more fun than earning a living by making cartoons?

People in creative professions, often known simply as creatives, have always held a unique place in society. Creatives seem a bit mysterious to most people, which explains the bottomless appetite for news about what happens behind the scenes in creative industries. Nowhere is this more true than in the motion picture business. In reality, Hollywood is a small suburb of Los Angeles.

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