- Animation director and supervisor
- Animator (2D computer animation)
- Animator (2D drawn animation)
- Animator (3D computer animation)
- Animator and assistant animator (Stop motion)
- CG modeller
- Compositor
- Digital painter
- Director/Series director
- Editing assistant
- Head of model making
- Inbetweener
- Junior animator
- Junior model maker
- Key animator
- Layout artists (2D computer animation)
- Layout artists (2D drawn animation)
- Layout artists (3D computer animation)
- Lighting technical director/Lighter
- Marketing executive
- Marketing manager
- Match move artists
- Model maker
- Runner
- Storyboard artist
- Production designer/assistant
Skills needed by the animation industry:
- Background artists
- CGI animators
- Compositing artists
- Editors
- Production management
- Production staff
- Rigging
- Screen writers
- Writers
- Trainee/assistant roles
- Visual storyboarding
How to get into the industry:
- Apprenticeships, preferable within creative and digital media, they help build your skills and give you strong foundations to work on the build your career.
- Degrees, ones that have the closest link to the working industry that provide high-levels of industry relevant education with the facilities that would be used in the industry too.
- Take advice from animators, people that already have a job and position with the animating industry, ask questions of what they had to do, what skills they need, how they developed their skills, how to put together a show reel and how to get noticed.
