Institutes And Careers In Animation Industry

There are many students who are eagerly looking forward for a great career in the animation industry, but are clueless about the opportunities that are available in this field. I spent hours and hours trying to find matter related to the above topic but ended up with web pages which were either endorsements or a few paragraphs written in order get an higher ranking in the Search Engines. And finally after sorting everything out I came up with the following information.

There are many animation training institutes which will teach you the basics and also the cutting edge facts about animation. But before doing these courses it is better to take a look at the picture which you show you your future in this field. Type any phrase related to animation and its scope. All you are going to end up with are millions of web pages which have nothing to say but almost every animation institute to endorse. I finally went through a few magazines in my house to find the scope of animation in recent times.

1. History: Everything from “Mickey Mouse” to “2012” is the fruit obtained after drawing millions and millions of sketches. I will not tell you everything in much detail but I will definitely cover everything in sufficient detail. Animation is nothing but a series of photographs taken at different instants, shown one after the other in a short span of time in such a manner that it seems as if the characters in the photographs are moving as in real life. You will be surprised to know that the birth of animation dates back to the times when the “Ajanta And Ellora” caves were built! You will be able to see a series of pictures written one after the other in the caves which showed the position of various things changing with respect to time in them. When you run along the wall of the cave and look at the wall you will see what the creators wanted to show you. Let me tell you a few amazing things using which even you will be able to do some simple and interesting animations for yourself.

2. Procedure: Take a Digital Camera and go to some open space where the rising sun will be clearly visible. Now take a stand or stool or anything which will be able to hold your camera in a still position. Your camera should not move even a millimeter’s span from its place. Now focus the camera to the position from where the sun is rising. Let us say that the sun takes eight minutes to rise. We need at least twenty frames to be flipped per second in order to come up with a continuous film. So if we want to show the sun rise within two seconds we will need to shoot a minimum of forty to fifty frames. Divide the time into equal segments and take the still photographs at different moments. If I take forty still shots then I will need to take five photographs per minute. I.e. I need to take one photograph in every twelve seconds. Now throw all these frames into a movie maker software. Define the time between two frames and the number of frames per second as per your convenience. Now play the film and you will be able to see an eight minute’s sunrise within two seconds. To double the time there is an option in the movie maker which will slow down the rate at which the frames are switching. This is better as compared to taking eighty photographs in order to get a little bit more refined film. The difference will not be so evident though. In this manner you can show the blooming of flowers and many other snail-paced movements in a shorter span of time. This is almost like stop motion animation, though stop motion animation is a slightly different procedure. You take a car place it at different positions and take the photographs. Throw the photographs into a movie making software. And then you end up with a film showing a racing car running at a blazing speed. You can later add the sound effects as per your convenience.

3. Jobs For Freshers: The greatest of all animation films are done using the same theme. In some films three dimensional characters are created (after seeing the drawings of the artists). And these 3D pictures are projected onto a 2D plane. These movies are the outcome of the individual and team efforts of a group of hundreds or maybe even thousands of animation experts. Now did you understand the scope of animation? But what about the freshers? How can the freshers earn? The novices are not selected for such huge projects right at once. The novices need to work for small advertising agencies or industries in the endorsement filming sector. The battle is tougher at the beginning. But once you get through this, you will be sent to far off places on the behalf of your company taking your reputation into consideration. You do not join this work for the sake of money. Time has revealed that only enthusiastic people who have a great zeal to create good animations are more successful in this field. So think before you leap. You can also work for the gaming industries as an animation novice. But the greatest hurdle is to show your own individual work to the recruiters in order to show your talent and enthusiasm in this field. It has been a proved fact that many engineers and art students can become really great animators. In this field you need to work for a small package at the beginning. If everything goes well, you will find yourself bathing in millions and millions of rupees or may be even dollars! Step in, only if you are interested in the working part and not the money part. Professionals strive for achieving excellence. Money is a byproduct of your hard work at least in this field.

4. Institutes: As far as I know all the institutes are good but it is better to go for the best known ones like ANTS even if they are a bit costlier than the others. In this field your institution also plays an important role of telling the recruiter about the skills that you are equipped with.

5. Courses And Jobs: There are different courses in animation institutes each with its own unique price tag. So choose your package very carefully. Web animation is not so useful unless you need to design the web pages of your own private website. Learn Cascading Style Sheets and a little bit of HTML if you want to bring up your own site on the internet. You may also learn 3D animation but you will not be selected in big projects if you are not much talented hence it is a better option to become a 2D animation expert rather than becoming a 3D half-baked egg. But one thing surely drives me crazy. The lifestyle of these guys! A few beautiful sketches and the huge cheques point towards your bank account number. Sounds cool doesn’t it. But the efforts put in by the animators are just worth the fruit they are rewarded with. So this was all about the scope of animation. Hope your thirst is now quenched a little bit. The scope of animation is really very good. Thousands of animators are needed in the animation industry and the statistics are showing a rise in the demand for animators in the upcoming years. The only thing you need is a passionate heart that just loves this job. And then, the whole world is in your hands. For more information you may consult the training institutions. Do not forget to leave a reply if you have a bit more information on animation.