Creative Industry

Job roles within animation:

• 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.