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”
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