Career Opportunities in Animation and Multimedia

It seems that animation offers ample opportunities as this is considered as an emerging career option in recent times. Animation is a combination of entertainment and technology. In other words animation involves in the exploitation of still images to create the illusion of movement by using multimedia objects like text, pictures, sound, charts, graphics, shapes and music etc. Using advanced computer technology, a sequence of staggered images captured in related. Animation is mainly offer number of solutions for Film industry, gaming industry and web designing. Almost every field is using computer graphics up to some extent, industries like pharmacy, aero space, civil, automobile are also using animation.

Skills required & Eligibility Criteria: The main work of an animation professional is generation and manipulation of graphic images, animation, sound, music, text and video into consolidated multimedia programs for entertainment, education or instruction media. Multimedia development includes a combination of different skills, combination of art, music, education and many other areas with computing and information technology. You need not to have any special degree in order to enroll into animation courses; many institutes in India are offering a number of diploma courses in animation and multimedia. It is desirable to have some basic knowledge on computer based graphics design, digital audio- video mixing and editing. All you need to have is creativity, flair for innovative design and artistic talent are other traits which can give more advantage.

Career Opportunities: According to recent surveys, Almost 90% of the animation work done in India is outsourced work. Most of the Indian companies that do animation work for studios abroad often do low-quality, high-volume work this is mainly due to the shortage of skilled professionals. India is certainly poised to grab high quality of animation projects in the future with the quality of animation improving.

You can opt for any one of these paths in order to pursue a career in animation and multimedia:

Animation: Animation is the design, drawing, layout and production of photographic sequences that are incorporated in the multimedia products in order to give it a smart appearance. In other words, animation involves the manipulation of still images to create the illusion of movement. Using computer technology, a sequence of staggered images captured in related positions are made to appear as if they’re really moving.

Author-Based Programming: It involves writing scripts or extensions in order to integrate a variety of images, text animation, graphics, presentations, and sound before selecting and applying the desired program structure to produce a multimedia product.

Computer Based Graphic Design: In this career, individual uses computing technology and specialist software packages to mange production, interface and integration of various graphics and other mediums into the multimedia package design. The primary role in this profession is design of art and copy layouts for multimedia products

Digital Video-Sound Editing: The career is concerned with using computer-based editing systems to prepare video sound for multimedia products. One should be familiar with editing and formatting a video or audio, voice-overs and mixing music

Multimedia Programming or Designing: It involves writing code to incorporate the range of audio-visual elements contained within a given multimedia package, and solving problems associated with conversion between different platforms. One should be having specialization in video systems development or programming with awareness of various operating systems and usability issues. The programmer or designer can use authoring system or programming language. Preparation of blueprint for project in terms of contents, media and interaction would be prime responsibility of the multimedia designer.

Instructional Designing: This category of job is associated with the design of educational multimedia systems. The designer can be a multimedia designer/programmer or/or interface designer having ability to transform various educational instructional media in to a single multimedia product. Instructional designers are used to target specific learning objectives and audiences through multimedia productions.

Website Designing and Development: The work is associated with design and development of website keeps focus on the overall look and feel of a website. Work may be supported by interface designer and/or graphic designer. Knowledge of image editing tools is pre-requisite.

Technical writing: This career is concerned with the development of characters, point of views, scripts for voice-overs, instructional text, etc. much like in film or video scripting. The professional’s particular job description is to write software installation instructions and user manuals.

Growth Potential: There is a great demand for animation jobs in India. According to the NASSCOM, the size of the Indian Animation market was estimated at USD 285 million in 2005, it is expected to increase to UDS 950 by 2010. The entertainment sector contributes as much as 68 % of the total Indian animation market. Introduction of newer technologies and platforms has facilitated the growth of the worldwide gaming industry. The global gaming market was estimated at USD 19 billion in 2005 and expected to increase to USD 45 billion in 2010.

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