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ANIMATION

ANIMATION AND SPECIAL EFFECTS
Animation and Special Effects are closely related and jobs frequently overlap each other. As with jobs in Special Effects, the pay is good and qualified employees are in demand- especially in California and New York.


Job Titles in Animation and Cartooning:

  • Animation Art Restoration
  • Flash Animator
  • 3D Modeler/Animator
  • After Effects Animator
  • Storyboard artist: Sketches movement through a feature.
  • Background/layout artist: In charge of the background of the feature. Also, colorist.
  • Studio Background artist: A non-production background prepared by the studio for publicity or presentation purposes.
  • Editorial Cartoonist: This artist frequently creates cartoons for the editorial sections of newspapers. Jobs for this profession are dwindling as newspapers fold.
  • Production Background: An original background painting used in the final version of an animated film or short.
  • Pencil Model Sheet Artist: A group of original pencil drawings on one sheet that illustrate an animated character in a variety of poses and expressions. Model sheets are lithographed and distributed to the animation team to ensure a uniform look and feel to a character throughout a production.
  • Morph: An artist who creates animated pictures transforming one image to another.

Animation Jobs :

Altpick.com
Animation Magazine
Animation World Network
ArtJob: jobs & internships, need to register online
Creative Hotlist
Digital Media Net
Film and video jobs: fee
Game Discovery
Highend 3D: jobs & internships
Inside Computer Graphics
Telecommuting Jobs
3 D artist classified: Job postings & for hire board
3d Temps reel

Animation and Cartooning Resources

Animation Art Glossary
Animation Artist: Jobs under Career Center
Animation Industry Database
Animation Nation
Animation Trip: submissions
Animatrix Network
AnimeExpo
Animation World Network
, magazine
Clay Animation
Collecting Animation Artwork: Where you can also read how production companies produce animation cells and modern animated movies.
Comic Art links at Dragonberry
Fanime.com: SF largest anime convention
Idleworm: tutorials
Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art
Stop Motion Animation
3 D Link: link to Intel jobs
United Media: licensing

Professional Organizations:
Animation Guild: links to studios
Association of American Editorial Cartoonists
ACM SIGGRAPH: list of graphic design companies, job listing
International Animation Film Society, ASIFA: links
National Cartoonists Society
PROMAX: job listing for members
Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation
Women in Animation

Animation Artists and Companies:
Aardman Animations: a major animation company in England
Animation Studio Links B: international links
Bandai Entertainment
Blur Studio: always looking for talent
B1 Media: jobs
Bottlerocket: job listing
Brain Zoo Studios: send requests for job openings
High Moon Studios: job listing
Iwin.com: SF, job listing
Industrial Light & Magic
Lean Forward Media: internships
Maya3D: links including studios
Odyssey 3D Animation: submissions
Pixar's: go to company info for job listing
Reelfix: job listing
SD Entertainment
Sprite Animation: job listing
3DM3.com: international job listing
Warner Brothers: job listing
WildBrain, Inc.: jobs & internships under “About us”