• The animation industry is a competitive field with a wide variety of possibilities
• Most who are interested in breaking into animation need to start at the very bottom of the pack before they get a break
• Talent is necessary and a degree with computer experience is helpful, but neither is a guarantee of employment.
• There are different types of jobs available in animation. Both two dimensional (2D) and three dimensional (3D) animation are still being produced, so there are jobs in drawing and computer animation
• Storyboard artists
• Layout artist
• To begin a career in the animation industry, a degree is always a good idea
• The highest quality of computer animation involves an artist's eye and hand, and it requires skills that can only be gained by the study of art
• Many artists have to begin on the literal bottom rung of the ladder as a gopher or other similar position to prove themselves.
• The new college graduate may be disappointed to find that the job involves tasks that hardly seem artistic, but these jobs can provide that all important foot in the door
• Sometimes, the jobs are specifically computer-based, like dealing with data saves, checking disk space, and testing software. Others require knowledge of web-based animation and web design
• "inbetweener." These beginning animators fill in the blanks between key scenes by imitating other animators' drawings

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• Animation Careers Outside of Entertainment: Medical Animation

• By Adrien-Luc Sanders
• it also has a foothold in the career field devoted to saving lives.
• education to demonstration to data capture and manipulation
• Medical animation has a large variety of applications, from
• Animation can have both hospital, institutional, and pharmaceutical applications. Animators in the medical field can apply their skills to many tasks, including:
• Demonstration of how pharmaceutical drugs work in the bloodstream and body
• • Interactive models of the human body on both macroscopic and microscopic, interior and exterior scales;
   
  • Interpretation of patient data into 3D visual images;
   
  • Creation of instructional materials for medical students;
   
  • Demonstration of surgical techniques in virtual representation;
   
  • Breakdowns of how medical equipment/proposed medical equipment will work
• requires a great deal of education beyond mere animation technique
• It's like being a surgeon, without getting your hands dirty--and it's equally fascinatin

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• PowerPoin
• Medical animation gets the message out
• By Cathy Gordo

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• "The best way to explain the really complex stuff is with a super clear animation,"
• There are incredibly
• skilled heart surgeons out there, but some are so inarticulate they can't tell a joke. If they spoke before 50 people, not one of them would understand what was said. Medical animation has changed that."
• Animation trumps the cadaver when it comes to teaching certain procedure
• They cranked out an animation about lip cancer surgery that played on the "Dr. Oz" TV show when it visited Houston a few years ago.

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• Animation Careers Outside of Entertainment:

  Architecture and Landscaping
• By Adrien-Luc Sanders
• If your interests lie less in the realm of character animation and more in the realm of environments, landscapes, technical modeling, and architecture, then you could seek out a career in architecture, landscaping, or even interior design.
• Landscape plans for acres of land can be modeled down to minute detail in 3D program
• s, even emulating the real altitudes and slopes of the existing tracts of land; these can then be used to generate blueprints and timelines for development and construction
• Landscaping can also cross over into architectural animation
• Architecture, landscaping, and interior design are a far cry from the classic uses for animation skills, but are still very rewarding careers that you might find far more suited to your tastes than traditional animation

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• Architectural animation
• Commercial demand for computer-generated rendering is on the rise
• These professionals ofte

  n find their clients are unable to grasp the complexity and spatial qualities of large projects without the help of computer generated visual aids.
• architectural firms are now using architectural animation because it attracts investors and customers who may not know much about building designs and can prefer visualisation rather than technical drawings to see the buildings look and features

• . Architectural animation is considered to have a bright future ahead of it as more and more architects and real estate developers are including computer animations in their marketing programs.^[1]

   
   

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• Animate characters by evolving them
• TED2003  ·  18:20  ·  Filmed Mar 2003 
• Torsten Reil talks about how the study of biology can help make natural-looking animated people — by building a human from the inside out, with bones, muscles and a nervous system. He spoke at TED in 2003; see his work now in GTA4.
• By coding computer simulations with biologically modeled nervous systems, Torsten Reil and his company NaturalMotion breathe life into the animated characters inhabiting the most eye-poppingly realistic games and movies around

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• Breaking into the industry

• Mexopolis, Animation Studio

  with Jorge Gutierrez and Sandra Equihua
• Jorge Gutierrez: While I was at CalArts, I kept exploring Mexican culture.

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• Paul Debevec: 

   

   Animating a photo-real digital face
• TEDxUSC  ·  6:06  ·  Filmed Mar 2009 
• Computer graphics trailblazer Paul Debevec explains the scene-stealing technology behind Digital Emily, a digitally constructed human face so realistic it stands up to multiple takes.
• Paul Debevec's digital inventions have powered the breathtaking visual effects in films like The Matrix, Superman Returns, King Kong and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

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