Animator

Brings characters and stories to life through 2D/3D animation for films, games, and ads.

Did you know?

Toy Story (1995), the first fully computer-animated feature film, needed 114,240 frames and about 800,000 computer hours to render.

Art & Design: Draw key poses and expressions that make a character's feelings clear without words.
Computer Science: Build a digital skeleton inside a computer model so a character's arms and legs can be posed.
Physics: Time a bouncing ball or a falling leaf so gravity and weight look believable on screen.
Literature: Plan a storyboard shot by shot so each scene moves the story along.

Hayao Miyazaki: Japanese animator who co-founded Studio Ghibli; his film Spirited Away won an Oscar in 2003.

Choose one very simple action, like a bouncing ball or a jumping frog.
On the last page, draw the first moment small, in the bottom right-hand corner.
Turn back one page and draw the next moment, changing it only a tiny bit. You should be able to see the drawing underneath to line it up.
Keep going until you have about twelve drawings, then flick the pages fast with your thumb and watch it move.
If it jumps or jerks, find the page where the change is too big and add an in-between drawing.

Animators draw or pose thousands of still pictures, each only slightly different, so that played quickly they look like smooth movement.

Also try: Storyboard a film stunt (on paper only).

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