Employment prospects and employment directions for animation majors

1. Employment prospects for animation majors

“It is very difficult to find a job after studying animation, and all the brothers and sisters have switched to other careers.” “There is currently a severe shortage of domestic animation talents and market demand. large". These two statements may seem completely contradictory, but they are both true. What is going on?

In fact, our animation major is very practical. Seniors with work experience will remind us that strength is more important than diplomas. Nowadays, the animation industry is very short of talents who can learn quickly and have good basic skills, but most of them do not meet this requirement. But in terms of academic qualifications, undergraduate degrees are still the main force in the animation industry, accounting for about 50%, and college degrees account for about 40%. This also shows that animation companies do not simply look at academic qualifications when recruiting employees, but more Pay attention to practical ability.

It can be seen that it is not difficult to find a job in the animation industry, but our expectations may be too high and our abilities cannot be met; the room for improvement in the animation industry is also not small, so people must work towards the needs of enterprises Efforts in the direction of “talent”. Let’s take a look at our professional counterpart positions first.

2. Employment direction for animation majors

1. Drawing direction:

Cartoonist

Cartoonist is mainly responsible for the company’s animation elements and original creations For the design of characters and original scene drawings, you have to complete the comic drawing independently according to the shot script.

Friends who are good at cartoon drawing can try the work of cartoonists. Cartoonists are required to be able to understand and analyze scripts well, and then convert the scripts into comics. The job of a cartoonist requires relatively high art skills such as hand-drawing and composition. It would be better if you have long-term cartoon creation experience. In addition, cartoonists must be proficient in photoshop, SAI, AI and other software.

Illustrator

Illustrators are mainly responsible for illustrating text-based works, such as children's books, textbooks, novels, newspapers, etc. They are also responsible for drawing greeting cards, posters, advertisements, spray-painting, etc. Drawing of paintings, humorous paintings, etc. Compared with comics, illustrations are more delicate, and one painting is often a work. Illustrators are divided into illustrators for the media publishing industry, children's illustrators, realistic illustrators for the advertising industry, cartoon mascot designers, game and film and television illustration designers, etc.

In addition to having good art skills, being an illustrator also requires broad thinking and creativity. It is important for illustrators to have a unique style, which requires a long-term accumulation process. The formation of your painting style means the maturity of your painting ability. When you start to gain popularity, suitable orders will come to you. Good communication skills are also very important, which will help you recommend your ideas to customers and help you better create satisfactory works according to customer requirements. Finally, illustrators must have the awareness to protect their own intellectual property rights, so as to avoid harming your passion for illustration and your interests.

Animator

The job of animator is to draw dynamic character shapes, dynamic intermediate images and different scenes. At present, most animators are hand-drawn for foreign animation companies. The salary of a skilled animator is 3k-6k. Although the work of an animator is mainly about drawing, which is a heavy workload and very hard work, if you consciously cultivate your originality and ability, you can use this job as a springboard to create your own works and have room for development. It will be much bigger.

Generally speaking, the above work requires mastering basic drawing software such as photoshop and penter. Those who are interested in these jobs should carefully pay attention to the recruitment information of some studios or companies, and submit their resumes as soon as they see the position or company they like. Even starting as an assistant is not bad, at least you can learn a lot of practical things in the process.