Monday, December 28, 2009

Career in Animation

Animation a rising industry


Animation is one of the most emerging and creative form of media. Today, animation has grown as a multi-billion dollar industry. In present scenario the animation is capturing the major chunk of the business world. This industry is creating number of jobs for the young people. There is a great opportunity of employment for those who are ready to try their skills in this creative industry. In this industry you require lots of hard work and dedication, long hour hard work and deep planning. Form a simple flick book to the computer animation of cartoons, stories, commercials, animation involves a lot of hard work. This field is new for the Indian talent, so due to its fresh appeal it has lots of strength and potential in it. It need to be properly groomed and exploited according the scope of the field. This industry can give new highest to the creative people as it require hard core creativity. There are many companies like Walt Disney, I MAX and Sony who are ready to outsource there work and ready to invest in Indian industry.

Animation is a complete team work and based on creative ideas. It required lot of coordination among the different people and teams. All the team which are directly or indirectly connected with the creative part needs lots of teamwork and creative ideas. The various steps included in the making of a 3D animation consist of:

Story → Story Boarding → Character Sketch → Concept creation → Modeling → Environments → Rigging → Character and Mechanical Animation → Storyboard Animation → Lighting → Texturing → Dynamics → Voice Recording → Digital Editing → Vfx → Final Film

In the same format the work flow goes:
Modeler - Layout artist - Clean-up artist -Scanner operator - Digital ink and paint artist – Compositor - Key frame animator - Background artist - In-between animator. Every role and every single stage is crucial for the successful creation of the animated project.

To be successful in this industry you need to have flair to be very creative. You must be a good learner and ready to learn new techniques and concepts to create good animation. You should always know what the client require out of you and how well you can fulfill his requirements. There are few people who are born with a great talent; you can hone your talent with the help of good grooming. There are many institutes in Delhi and all over India which offer different kind of courses in animation and multimedia at different level. Today, there is a huge demand of good animation courses and institutes. There are so many working professionals who are always in a search of some new development and courses to add on new talent to their creativity. Moreover, students completing Animation Cartoon Courses from a Delhi institute can find lucrative jobs in a number of fields including films, television, internet, print media and more. There are few animation institutes which offer these courses to the students: Global School of Animation & Games, Academy of Animation and Gaming, Integrated Management College (IMC), GECKO Animation Studios Pvt Ltd., MAYA ACADEMY OF ADVANCED CINEMATICS, PICASSO Animation Education and Production, Pumpkin Academy Of Digital Arts Training and few more.

1 comment:

  1. I wish to recomond one of the upcoming instituted CG MANTRA headed by Mr Reddy the founder of Picasso and advisor NASSCOM as a promising institute for VFX as well as Animation. They have degree programmes, diploma and short term programmes and boast of facilities such as Green Screen Studio, Smoke suite from Autodesk, Sound Studio.

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