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Career In Animation

Animation learning is the most important success tool in the world of advertising these days. We are dependent on internet for everything, whether it's for business, communication, personal relations, education, exams, almost more than half of the activities in the world are done through the medium of internet. And almost all the websites are animated. Also, it's a very creative and different profile, which attracts large number students to pursue career in animation.

Students are very much keen and optimistic about this career opportunity, because it's a very imaginative work, which provides a lot of space to student to think and do something innovative and creative each day. All animation designs are different from each other, crediting to the beauty of the work profile. Animation aspirants have good opportunities in film, television, media and advertising field; besides this the whole web world is dependent on animation. The different courses which a student can opt for taking education in animation are:

• Graphic Designing
• Graphics and Web designing
• Diploma in animation
• Foundation course
• BSc. in animation and multimedia
• Diploma in Animation Engineering

Looking at the increase in demand of career in animation, many private institutes have opened up, with special courses on animation and web designing. The different institutes providing courses in animation are:

v     Graphiti School of Animation, Mumbai

v     Arena Animations Academy

v     Frameboxx

v     Raffles Millennium International

v     Indian Institute of Digital Art and Animation

v     Picasso Animation College

v     Maya Academy of Advanced Cinematics, Mumbai

v     Academy of Animation and Gaming, Noida

v     B D Somani Institute of Art and Fashion Technology, Mumbai

v     EDIT Institute, Mumbai

v     Maeer's MIT Institute of Design, Pune

v     Akriti Institute of Art, Animation and Gaming, Noida

v     Anieffects, Ahemdabad

v     Pansoft School of Animation, Mumbai

v     Institute of Mass Communication Film and Television Studies, Kolkata

v     Shrishti School of Art Design and Technology, Bangalore

A student after passing his senior secondary examinations can apply for a course in animation from any of the above intentioned institute. Students with good imagination and ideological power can do well in this field. The basic categories of animation, which a student has to excel in, being a part of the animation course are:

2D Animation: 2D animation, basically deals with the paper work, it is fundamental form of animation, in which pictures are mostly made by hand, then scanned and worked on computer for transforming it into a movie or advertisements. The softwares used in this are Adobe Flash, Toonz Harlequin, Toon Boom Animation, CelAction, etc.

3D Animation: 3D animation is used to give a realistic effect to the picture, a lot of creativity and use of digital media is involved in this process. The softwares used to support this animation are MAYA, Softimage, 3Ds Max, etc. Other than the sketching and drawing skills, the students need to excel on aspects like modelling, texturing, lightining and rendering.

A student aiming to pursue career in animation can look forward in giving his contribution towards animated movies, cartoons, advertisements, etc. many animated movies are coming up these days, and moreover these are not only restricted to the children, movies like hanuman, have gained popularity among the young generation also. There are many animated pictures, cards, greeting cards, also available on internet. In fact a lot of animation techniques are used for building a website also. One can see, a lot of animated pictures and designs on the official websites of organisations, which helps in catching attention of people and increase the traffic for the web- based business entities.

Thus, we can say, that career in animation is quite productive, and a student can see an interesting growth in his career, if he is directed with right guidance and follows a proper and planned career path

About the Author

Gurleen Kaur writes on behalf of Shiksha.com.Shiksha is a portal that connects education seeker with education provider. Shiksha provides information about Graphic Designing Courses and Web Designing Courses

does anyone know if its possible to do a joint honours in art and animal biology?

i have a passion for both art and animals/biology and i really dont want to have to choose one....anyone know of any courses, or what unis offer that sort of flexibility?

That's an admirable goal, and I have no idea. I can, however, help you solve your delimma by choosing for you.

Choose biology.

Firstly, you can actually get a job as a biologist, where you have lottery odds of making a living as an artist. Art is a fine hobby, but there's no worse profession. Even most of the great artists died poor and penniless, and it took decades for their work to really become valuable.

Secondly, going to art school does nothing for you. While you can't just say "I'm a biologist" or "I'm a lawyer/doctor/accountant/whatever," any person can say "I'm an artist," without ever having put brush to canvas (or whatever your chosen medium). When someone wants to buy a piece of art, they have absolutely no interest in what art school the artist attended, or whether they went at all. They either like what they see, or they don't.

Thirdly, I firmly believe that art school actually makes people worse at art than they were originally. When you take classes at an art school, you generally don't have the luxury of deciding what you want to create and then creating it. Instead, you're told what to create, and how you must do it. You're told what artistic principles to focus on, what media to use, and given a whole bunch of other restrictions and instructions. The idea of art school is not to make you a better artist, it's to improve your technique. More correctly, it strives to improve on the techniques that they want you to demonstrate. Meanwhile, learning the "correct" way to crank out art kills much of your creativity and individuality as an artist, as the structured methods and styles that they require of you invariably leave an impression on your creative processes. In other words, you lose much of what makes your style unique, and your creativity will be forever strained through the filter of that particular school's teachings.

Be a biologist. If you at least partially enjoy it and you can make money at it, you're already ahead of better than 50% of the workforce. Even if you hate it but can still make a living, you'll be ahead of 99.8% of the artists in the world.

The old childhood adage that we're told by our parents, that we can be whatever we want to be, comes with a big caveat. You can be whatever you want to be, but you can't be whatever you want to be AND get paid for it. Study something which will be of value to you, and help you pay the bills.

Once you're a biologist, you can spend all your free time creating art. You can take private lessons from someone who will help you work on your technique, but will allow you to apply it in the way that you want. Perhaps you'll sell a few pieces, if that's your wish. And maybe, just maybe, you'll do well enough that you can eventually be an artist full-time. That process will assuredly take years (if it happens at all), and you'll probably want to eat a few times between now and then. That's the no-nonsense answer.

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