Animator: Paid to Make Cartoons

Introduction
If you draw, if you are looking for a way to make a career out of your ability, animation is a great way to go about it. It’s a lot of fun and the finished product is usually something you can be proud of. Animation can sometimes be tedious, but no more so than any other job.

Job Function
Animators work in teams, and communication is key to successfully creating something good. Also, you have to work closely with the voice talent: this is where the job gets laborious, because things need to be reanimated to fit what they have said and how they have said it (improvisational actors are super-duper annoying). Nowadays most of the work is done on computers, some people even use them for the most initial designing. I still do as much by hand as I can get away with, but when you are working with a group of animators, each of whom is working with a computer, you have little choice but to also work digitally. My dislike for the computer has gotten me the distinction of being the office curmudgeonly fuddy-duddy. Advertisement
Lifestyle
The job consumes every aspect of my life, but even before I was a professional animator drawing had overshadowed everything else. There is no intrinsic reason why animation should seep into everything that you do, no boss would demand that of you, but if you’re already obsessed with drawing, you are going to continue to be, and you will seem a workaholic where you used to just seem an artist.

Additional Information
There are a lot of art schools with good animation programs, as well as just animation schools. Attend one and you will soon know everything that you need to land yourself a job as an animator.

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