Whats it like being an Animator?
Do you like to spend hours, weeks, and months in front of a computer screen? I’m not an animator, I work in live action film, but I’m always in the animation labs in our building. Those guys really put in the hours. Literally they spend 12-18 hours a day in a dark room staring at a screen playing with a wacom- it’s a very tedious job, but like everything in the film industry- if you love it, you gotta do it. Claymation, and stop motion have kinda died as an industry- some things like Coraline still pop up but they’re rare. You can break everything down into 2 categories, 2D and 3D animation. 2D is traditional, hand drawn cartoons (although more and more they’re being done completely in computer) which means television shows. 3D is the computer modeled animation- anything from Pixar movies to visual effects for live action films. 3D is probably the way to go in terms of jobs- so as far as classes continue to take drawing and art, but add computer and IT classes, as well as drafting and
