How do they match: Special Effects Artists and Animators

  • Special Effects Artists and Animators

  • 3D Animator
  • Animation Artist
  • Animation Director
  • Animation Producer
  • Animator
  • Anime Artist
  • Anime Designer
  • Cartoon Animator
  • Technical Animator
  • Three-Dimensional Animator
  • Video Game Animator

  • Create special effects or animations using film, video, computers, or other electronic tools and media for use in products, such as computer games, movies, music videos, and commercials.

  • Apply story development, directing, cinematography, and editing to animation to create storyboards that show the flow of the animation and map out key scenes and characters.
  • Convert real objects to animated objects through modeling, using techniques such as optical scanning.
  • Create pen-and-paper images to be scanned, edited, colored, textured, or animated by computer.
  • Create two-dimensional and three-dimensional images depicting objects in motion or illustrating a process, using computer animation or modeling programs.
  • Design complex graphics and animation, using independent judgment, creativity, and computer equipment.
  • Script, plan, and create animated narrative sequences under tight deadlines, using computer software and hand drawing techniques.
  • Use models to simulate the behavior of animated objects in the finished sequence.

  • Create computer-generated graphics or animation.