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 :
Animation Jobs
Animation Magazine
Animation
World Network
ArtJob: jobs & internships, need to register online
Creative Heads
Creative Hotlist
Game Discovery
Green Light Jobs
Telecommuting Jobs
3
D artist classified: Job postings & for hire board
Animation and Cartooning Resources
Animation Artist: Digital Media Net Community
Animation Industry
Database
Animation Nation: links
Animation
Trip: submissions
Animatrix Network
AnimeExpo
Animation World Network
Clay Animation: links
Collecting Animation Artwork: Where you can also read how
production companies produce animation cells and modern animated
movies.
Creative Jobs Central
Comic Art
links at Dragonberry
Fanime.com:
SF largest anime convention
Idleworm: tutorials
Museum of Comic
and Cartoon Art
Stop Motion Animation: links
3 D Link:
jobs
United Media: licensing links
Professional Organizations:
Animation Guild: links to studios
Animation Society of India
Association International of Film Animation
Association of American Editorial Cartoonists
ACM SIGGRAPH:
list of graphic design companies, job listing
European Association of Animation Film
International Animation Film Society, ASIFA: links
Japan Society for Animation Studies
National Cartoonists Society
Society for Animation Studies
Society for the Promotion
of Japanese Animation
Society of Visual Artists
Visual Effects Society
Visual FX Digital Artists Guild
Women in
Animation
Animation Artists and Companies:
Aardman Animations: a major animation company in England
Animation Evolution
Animation Studio Links B: international links
Bandai Entertainment
Blur Studio:
always looking for talent
B1 Media:
jobs
Brain
Zoo Studios: send requests for job openings
High Moon Studios: job listing
Illclan Animation Studios
Industrial Light &
Magic
Lean
Forward Media
Maya3D: links including studios
Pixar's: go to
company info for job listing
Reelfix: job listing
SD Entertainment
Sprite
Animation
3DM3.com: international job listing
Warner Brothers:
job listing
WildBrain, Inc.: jobs & internships under “About
us”
