This article is a guide that can be useful if you are thinking about becoming animator. It includes work's place, how you will be pay and how much, what you should do to become one, how to manage your life and other interesting information. I'm thinking about becoming one myself, so this guide will be of help.
As an animator, you will work on bringing a whole word alive. It can be for a publicity, a movie a show, but you will always bring beautiful universe to life. It can be really creative but there's also a big possibility that you will have to stay in front of a computer as a long part of your work.
Animators principal job is to create a bunch of image that when you put them together make a film, a publicity, a cartoon or any other animation. How you do that is basically drawing, painting, modeling or any other way and then repeating the same sequence with only a little change during a lot of frames. Then, you edit all of those frames together and it creates an action or a scene and when you edit those scenes together it creates a story.
It definitely changes in function of your post! Every post has a different job, and they all complete each other. You will mostly work on a computer as a big part of your day, but you will still probably do a lot of creative stuff, from drawing to coloring to modeling. You will mostly work on little part of a bigger project.
Most of the time for larger production company, where they are going to be part of a team and work on a section of the whole project. However, a lot of animators use their own money to create little project to submit at competition and try to win. They do that with the hope of being able to win and make more animations that they love.
Anyone can become an animator! All you need is drawing skills, patience and an understanding of a computer and animations programs! A good eyes for small details can also be extremely useful. Of course, studying art in school can be a good way of getting better and developing your skills. Otherwise, it can be really hard to reach the level you will need for the job.
It totally depends on your post! You start with a low pay and after more experience and project, if you manage to survive in the industry, it will rise. After a while in the industry, you can manage to have the complete responsibility of a project. At this point, your pay will be the bigger it can be and will pretty much stay the same for the rest of your life.
You have many possibilities but studying Graphic Design and computer skill is an excellent start. For example, a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts or a Master’s of Fine Arts in Animation and Visual Effects can guide you pretty well on the animator path. Having those training on your portfolio can help you get interviews. Once you are in the animator's world, you can do like many aspiring animators and work with a small pay for pro animators, programmers, games designers, ... to be able to learn from them.
There's not many dangers of being an animator, if you ignore the possible bad salary and, also the back or hand pain, but what can be more difficult would be the pressure that you are under. The pressure on you from being in a team and from the deadlines can be draining.
Actually, some part of animation could be replaced by robots, but just like any artistic discipline, robot will never be able, or at least not with the progress of technology right now, to create art. They could probably help to reduce the work thought.
If you survive as an animator and manage to stay in the game, you will be starting to see a significant difference after around 5 years. At this point, you will have more responsibility, you will have a bigger pay and you will be able to let your creativity more freely. However, you didn't reach your full potential. After 10 years, you will be one of the few stills working from the ones that started with you. You will have full responsibility on projects and part of your work will be to manage budget and schedule. Your pay is high at this moment. Most of the time, you are professionally satisfied at this point. After some big project, you may think about retiring.
I'm currently a Visual Art student. I'm going on my second year. Usually my program is in two years but I decided to do it in 3 years. Next year I will have to choose a university, but I have no idea where I will go for the moment. I'm living in the present. The only goal I have for my future is to be happy in what I'm doing, whatever it is. I'm thinking about doing animations but it's not a goal for the moment, if you end up on this and it is for you though, I wish you all the luck and to be happy in this job!
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