Animation – An Excellent Career Opportunity

Animation is an upcoming stream witnessing heavy growth and opening up great careers opportunities. Use of animation and visual effects has increased as seen in movies, TV shows across the world and in India. There will be a huge demand for skilled professionals and you can build a great career by acquiring the right skills. Continue reading to find out how you can make the best of this opportunity!

Great Opportunities In Visual Effects And Computer Gaming
Fields

Animation field, which was seriously affected by the global recession is again on its way to boom.  According to NASSCOM, an association of IT companies in India, India requires more than 5 lakhs people in the animation field, in the upcoming future.  But India has only one and a half lakhs qualified people in this field, who has talent and experience.  NASSCOM’s 2010 report says that there are more than three and a half lakhs vacancies in India so far in this particular field.  Apart from animation industry, there are enormous job opportunities in visual media, computer gaming etc, but they all require qualified and skilled people.  Among these, the computer gaming field is more attractive, it is growing very fast and has many opportunities.

 
Plenty of visual effects are used in all the new movies now-a-days.  Previously visual effects were used only  by the Hollywood movies, but now Bollywood and even local language movies use these facilities a great deal.  Those who can prove their talents have high demand and they get nice reward.

Many multinational companies are recruiting this field now.

1.  Tunes in Techno park
2.  Prana in Bangalore
3.  Crest
4.  Big Animation of Reliance
5.  Dataquest Technologies  in Hyderabad
6.  Prasad Lab are some of the examples.

  In Dataquest Technologies  itself, more than 4,000 people are working.  There are hundreds of other companies where less than 100 people working and such companies really creates great demand for such jobs.

 

Animation – An Excellent Career Opportunity

 

•  Animation courses come in full time and part time modes. The full time animation degree focuses on motion graphics as a medium to explore design and as a form of visual communication and problem-solving.
•  The part time animation course has been specifically designed for industry professionals. The part time course is ideal for working people who want to upgrade themselves or students who want to utilize their vacations.
•  Career options for an animation graduate can range to any of these profiles -

1. Director
2. Producer
3. Art Director
4. Storyboard Artist
5. TV based Graphic Designer
6. Special Effects Artist/Director
7. Matte Artist
8. Game Level Design
9. Technical Director
10. 3D Designer
11. 3D Modeler.

RECOGNIZE THE CREDIBILITY

Such a lot of institutions have grown all over the country to give training in animation field, realizing that this industry is flourishing.  But, it is advisable to enquire on the credibility of such organizations before joining in them.  A person’s in-born talent to draw is the most important quality to select this career.  A person without any artistical talents is very difficult to win in this industry.  Just paying fees and studying something is not sufficient for this particular job.
 

The association of animation industry have requested government to control the industries giving unauthorized training to students.  They have also requested to start animation course in government colleges and universities.  The main animation training colleges are located in big cities like Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, etc.  There are only a few universities have animation courses in them.