Tony Mingacci's List: 2.1 Industry Growth

• Today’s Growing Need for Animators in the Gaming Industry Opens Up Many Job Opportunities for Animation Students
• Amy Nutt
• (PRWEB) June 21, 2013
• the current need for animators in the gaming industry is on the rise which provides many opportunities for those in an animation program
• 2D and 3D Animation programs can help those looking to break into the animation world by teaching them the essential traits and skills required in the animation industr
• The gaming world is constantly changing – from 2D pixelated animation to high definition graphics and 3D animation, it’s hard to believe that the gaming world started out with putting a quarter into an arcade machine.
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  he animation and actual game play in the gaming world has become very complex
• The gaming industry is continuously getting large
• the need for animators in this industry is at an all-time high
• Canada especially
• Canada has come out with some of the most popular games of 2012 including, Mass Effects 3, Far Cry 3, Assassin’s Creed 3, and Sleeping Dogs
• Canadian company producing games is Ubisoft Montreal, which creates the Assassin’s Creed franchise and the Far Cry series

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• Global Animation & Gaming Market Size & Forecast (2011 – 2016)
• Published: Nove

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• The U.S. leads the market for animation patents, due to wide scope and demand for locally generated animation conten
• t, and the presence of top industry players such as Disney and DreamWorks.
• There is a huge demand for 3D animation across the globe, and most of the animation industry players such as Disney Enterprises Inc, Adobe Systems Incorporated, and Sony Corporation are trying to grab a share of the 3D market.
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  nnovative gaming techniques such as massively multiplayer online games and online role playing games have given a new outlook to the gaming marke
• The global animation and gaming market is expected to grow from $122.20 billion in 2010 to $242.93 billion by 2016. This represents a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12.94% from 2011 to 2016.
• Major driving force behind the animation market is government initiatives; whereas the gaming market is   pulled up by greater penetration & accessibility to broadband internet.
• lack of skills and piracy remain the restraining factors
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• animation and gaming
• e-Education, web designing, and animation entertainment
• movies, Visual Effects (VFX), TV & Broadcast, and Direct to DVD
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• PC games, mobile games, console games, and online games.
• The global animation & gaming market is segmented into four geographies: North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Japan, and ROW (Rest of the world)
• North America forms the largest segment with about 42% of the overall share, followed by Europe; whereas APJ is the fastest growing region with an expected CAGR of 19.08% from 2011 to 2016.
  

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• 'Wreck-It Ralph' is a Disney animation game-changer
• Susan Wloszczyna, USA TODAY
• 3:31 p.m. EDT November 1, 2012
• Walt Disney must be grinning in his grave.
• His namesake animation studio — where fairy tales have always come true, at least in cartoon form — is on the verge of a creative reawakening with Friday's arrival of Wreck-It Ralph.
• "There is a new generation of artists coming of age now who are very hungry and talented, and Disney now has something to offer them."
• - A new 'tude. Disney has always been an executive-led studio, Lasseter says, with layers of bosses deciding what the talent that actually makes the movies should do, including mandatory notes on changes. "That's the way most animation studios are set up," he says.
• But not Pixar. And now, not Disney, either. Instead, a so-called creative brain trust made up filmmakers is responsible for generating ideas that can be turned into scripts. They then pitch the best ones at a meeting, and directors are assigned to the ones that have the most potential.
• That way, says Lasseter, there is a personal investment that everyone shares. "We want to empower creative people," he says. "When they feel it's their child, they bend over backwards to raise it properly." As a result, "You are what you direct. You see bits and pieces of all of us in our work."
• The animators were pushed to their limits to make each game environment as true to an actual replica as possible
• - New techniques.
• . The most difficult proved to be the most crude: Fix-It Felix.
• Artists struggled to simulate the staccato movements of the blocky characters and re-create backdrops that looked like pieced-together Legos.
• Still, it is Paperman, the accompanying short with Wreck-It Ralph by first-time director John Kahrs, that might be a true indication of animation's future. The wordless story about a love at first sight combines minimalist black-and-white computer animation with traditional hand-sketched images in a breathtakingly unique fashion. "I think it is a good indication of where traditional 2-D animation is goin

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• Beyond apps: the future of smart TV
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• Beyond apps: the future of smart TV
• Alan Wolk

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