ANIMATION

ABOUT MY JOB

• Create moving pictures: cartoons, movies, & video games
• 3D animation: uses clay and 3D computer program
• 2D animation: uses pens, pencils, and/or computers
• Self-employed
• Work 40 hours a week

ABOUT MY JOB CONTINUED

• must be creative, & have drawing skills
• Animators work for motion picture companies and television networks
• Animators like using their creative talents to produce entertaining material
• Work can be stressful working under production deadlines
• 3D animators enjoy the challenge of using new graphic technologies

EDUCATIONAL PATH

• should take a college preparatory curriculum in High School
• concentrate on courses and/or activities that will help their art skills
• Helpful high school courses would include Art, Drawing, Multimedia Design, and Photography
• Majors and degrees: animation, video graphics, special effects, painting and drawing

OUTLOOK

• WI: Job seekers will face competition for openings
• Nation: will find good employment opportunities
• Number of film productions, economic conditions, and the market for
• cable television, home movie rentals, and television groups affect employment
• Most jobs are in California and New York, where many motion picture companies and television networks are

OUTLOOK CONTINUED

• Employed in WI: 2010- 1,080, 2020(estimated)- 1,200
• Estimated employment growth- 10 years- 11%
• WTCS: animation: # of graduates- 13, # employed- 2
• WTCS: animation: # of respondents- 5
• WTCS: animation: # in workforce- 4

SALARY Per Hour- WI

SALARY Per Hour- US

WHY I WANT THIS OCCUPATION

• I think of myself as an artistic person
• Love painting
• Love drawing
• Love using technology
• Always admired cartoons

WHY I WANT THIS CONTINUED

• Always loved anime characters
• Love seeing things being put into play
• I like seeing people admiring my work