Career in animation course

Introduction:
The animation simply means movement or something lively happening. the best example of animation are cartoons. One of the youngest, fastest-changing, and most rewarding industries is computer animation he first animated cartoon movie by walt Disney is still in heart of millions people. When the drawings of series of different movements is made on a diary and we flick that diary very fast then we are able to see as our drawing came to alive as we are able to see the movements… The art of animation started with the cavemen who used to draw pictures on the rocks surfaces. This art is seemed to as we have fill life to the characters. Animation is developing its scope in every field from a simple flick book to the computer 3D animation of stories; animation involves a lot of hard work and long hours of meticulous planning.

Nature of Work:
This career is full of creativity. As there is not need of any high intellectual and power of mind but it does not means it is very easy. Lot of patience ,long hours of planning and sketching ,hard wok , imaginative skills are need of this field. . It is a rapid display of 2D or 3D images to create an illusion of motion. It is an art form in which inanimate objects are brought into life by sequencing the drawn images . It requires the teamwork with full coorperation and dedication. 3D animation itself is a combination of wide variety of career combination .
There are many parts in a 3d animation ,so people get different and particular topic of their interest . They can show their talent in following fields:
• Modeler
• Layout artist
• Clean-up artist
• Scanner operator
• Digital ink and paint artist
• Compositor
• In-between animator
• Key frame animator
• Background artist
Every role is crucial for the successful creation of the Animated project.

Educational Qualifications:
For a diploma and for a bachelor degree in animation one needs to have passed 12th standard from any recognized board with minimum of 45% marks.
Some of the institutes like Industrial Design Center (IDC), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) and Indian Institute of Design (NID) have a strict eligibility criterion-only graduate of architecture, technology and engineering, fine arts can apply for this course.

Professional Courses:
. For postgraduate program one should have a bachelor's degree in any discipline preferably arts. One should have a basic knowledge of handling computers.
There are various diploma and degree programs in animation and multimedia. These courses focus on teaching and equipping a person in various styles and techniques of animation, which may include:
• Traditional animation
• Rotoscoping
• Computer generated 3D and 2Danimation
• Photoshop
• Clay-mation
• Human anatomy
• Drawing

Colleges, Institutions and Universities in India:
• National Institute of Design (NID (www.nid.edu.com)
• J.J School of Arts.
• Zee Institute of Creative Arts (ZICA) (www.zica.org)
• Industrial Design Center (IDC), IIT Mumbai and Guwahati
• Arena Multimedia (www.arena-multimedia.com)
• Maya Academy of Advanced Cinematics (www.maacindia.com)
• TOONZ Animation India Pvt. Ltd. (www.toonzanimationindia.com)
• Academy of Digital Arts and Communication (www.killickchallenger.com)
• RAI University (www.raiuniversity.edu)
• ANIMASTER (www.animaster.com)

Career Prospects:
In India this career is was started very later but it is expected to boost rapidly. You all must know the famous bal ganesha animated movie. Recently many animated movie has come in the industry. As India has great mythological stories and characters, so there is a demand of good artists and technicians. NASSCOM has projected a creation of an additional 300,000 jobs in this sector in next few years.

Animation application areas include myriad avenues in the following areas:
• Entertainment (movies and television)
• Business (product promotions and marketing demos)
• Education (Computer Based Tutorials/Web Based Tutorials)
• Sales (presentations)
• Publishing (graphics and printing)
• Virtual reality in Defense
• Web designing
• Engineering and Technology
• Advertising (commercials and print ads)
• Fashion designing and interior designing
• Development of computer games/mobile games
• Medical, legal and insurance industry (presentations and models)
• Leading studios and training institutes

Some useful websites: www.animationarena.com