Future is awaiting. Know job prospects and eligibility to pursue career in Animation after 12th

What is animation?

 Did you marvel at the visuals of Avatar, How To Train Your Dragon, Toy Story, Shrek, Zootopia, Frozen, Chronicles of Narnia, The Jungle Book or even the Jurassic Park, Transformers, Avengers, Star Wars?

If you did, then you are a lover of animation and VFX. These films are regarded as the highest grossing films globally and the standard of the animation in these films have set the grounds for many films in the industry later.

Most of these movies have been successful franchises giving rise to the notion of character animation worldwide.

Scope in the field of animation in India

 Big Hollywood movies are now outsourcing animation from India. India is regarded to be the world’s animation capital now because of the VFX, animation and graphics created in India for both international and indigenous projects.

At home, indigenous animation projects like ‘Motu Patlu’, ‘Shiva’, ‘Chota Bheem’, ‘Baal Ganesh’ have been tremendous hits among the audience. And international projects like Game of Thrones, Avatar, Jungle Book have also outsourced their animation requirements from India. Needless to mention the recent Baahubali franchise in India have made us stand at par with international standards in terms of VFX.

The amount of vacant jobs in the animation sector is high right now. There are only 20 animation artists available in the market whereas the demand is of 100. The huge demand and supply gap in the availability of animation professionals ensure huge intake of VFX and animation artist in the field in the coming years.  

 How to get into animation?

The best way to become an animation or VFX professional is to enroll into one of the best animation courses. A B.Sc animation course would help a student to gain knowledge about all the latest software that is currently used in the industry and they will also gain hands on experience while using the same.

Practical exposure will make them skilled professionals that the industry is demanding right now.

Job Prospects after studying animation -

·         Web Designing

·         2D and 3D Animation

·         Graphic Designing

·         Digital Artist

·         Multimedia

·         Flash Designer

·         3D Modeler

·         Story Board Artist

·         Compositor

·         Compositing VFX Artist

·         Flash Animation

·         Character Animation

·         Matte Painting

·         Technical Direction

·         Game Designing

·         Texturing Artist

·         Game Designing

·         Visualizer

 Eligibility to study animation –

Anyone after 12^th can enroll into a B.Sc animation course. If you are tech savvy, have a little bit of interest in drawing and are creative by nature, animation is definitely a field for you.
What do you get to study in an animation course –
1. Graphics
2. Web Designing
3. 2D and 3D Animation
4. Fundamentals of digital film making
5. Animation production process
6. Advertising and Branding design
7. Materials and process for design production
8. Visual narratives and sequential structure
9. Portfolio creation and presentation
10. Infographics and Motion graphics design and more