ANIMATOR

Personal skill:

                      An animator should have an artistic bent of mind with a lot of passion and imaginative skills. Creativity is the most wanted quality for this career as animation starts with developing an idea to a story. The art of sketching or drawing is another basic skill one should possess. Patience, discipline and dedication to work is a vital ability as this field involves lot of hard work and long hours of thorough planning. He/ She should have a sound understanding of anatomy of humans, animals or birds and body movements and lighting effects. Good communication skill is also needed as most of the time it will be teamwork. One good animator should be one good actor also. So that only he could express the character well through his animation.

                      An animator should have a good sense of colour, proportion, size, design, visualizations, knowledge of background art and layout. They must have expertise in computer design software. Knowledge of programming languagues (C++, Java) will be an added benefit. It is advantageous to understand photography, lighting and movement for those planning to work in computer animation. They must be able to visualise how an object will look in three dimensions and have the know-how to make an animated object look real.

Eligibility

Degree and Diploma courses in animation are abundance nowadays apart from online services. Minimum education qualification for a degree and diploma course in animation is plus two or equivalent.

 JOBS OFFERED IN THE  INDUSTRY ARE:

•  Content developer

 •  Modeler.
 •  Story Broad Artist
 •  Character animator
 •  Background artist
 •  Layout artist
 •  2D animator
 •  In-between animator.
 •  Scanner operator
 •  Compositing artist
 •  Special effects artist
 •  Audio & video specialist
 •  Visualiser
 •  Texture artist
 •  Rigging artist
 •  Clean-up artist
 •  Lighting artist
 •  Editor
 •  Key frame animator
 •  Rendering artist
 •  3D animator
 •  Image Editor

India has over 300 animation studios employing over 12,000 animation professionals. Besides this, Indian companies are creating a number of animated films and cartoons for US and European studios. There fore the chances for good creative animators never ends.

Remuneration

1.  As a junior animator or trainee one could get between Rs.10000- 15000 per month
2.  experienced animator will get 25000 to 40000. per month.
3. well-experienced animator who has a good portfolio of excellent animation work could easily get 50000- 60000 per month.