Film Animator (Traditional)

What you do: Draw a series of images that can be played in a sequence to look like one moving image that flows naturally. Collaborate with other colorists and animators working on different parts of the project to make sure everything fits together, then combine your work to create the visual component of an animated movie or TV show.
Education: None required, but a degree in fine art or animation is highly preferred.
Useful skills: Attention to detail, artistic ability, and patience.
How to get in: Put together a short reel made up of your best work. If you're really talented, you might be able to find a first job as a junior or assistant animator, where you'll help animate background objects in a scene. If you can't find an entry-level animating job right off the bat, try to find work in a movie production art department.
Career path: After getting enough experience as a junior/assistant animator, you'll graduate to being a full-on animator, working on various objects and characters. That leads to specializing in one aspect of animation, like working on characters or special effects. After a few years, you can become a key animator, working on important parts of the animation as well as managing the other animators. Later, you might become an animation director, developing ideas about how the project should look, communicating this to the animators, and making sure the process runs smoothly.
Payback: Median annual salary: $65,370.
Downsides: Animation is incredibly slow and painstaking. If you're an impatient person, this probably isn't the job for you.
Future of Job: Traditional (hand-drawn) animation jobs are becoming harder to find as computer animation takes over. While computer animators are in high demand, there aren't many job openings here in the US because more companies are turning to lower cost animators overseas.
Networking: Animatedbuzz is a networking site for animators that offers galleries where you can share your work, with blogs about animation jobs, and discussion forums: www.animatedbuzz.com/
The Animation Guild also offers information and education opportunities:
animationguild.org/
Video produced by students at LAHSA (Los Angeles High School of the Arts), working with Gigniks' careers media program. -- Ali Sanford (Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies,11th grade)
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[@t.v.production3062]

Traditional animation should be brought back! Who’s with me?!

[@CatGamers232]

ME! I am planning on opening my own animation studio purely using traditional 2d animation!

[@t.v.production3062]

@@CatGamers232 I had the same idea.

[@beeknose]

Todays animation is bland and dumbed down. Ugly all around, traditional has life.

[@annaj4316]

@@CatGamers232Yayyy

[@ajanimation8239]

I'm getting some hand drawn animated projects off the ground myself.

[@open_sky_creative]

Wow, oldschool! Desktop phones and tube monitors. So much has changed!

[@Guigley]

Anyone who worked on "The Emperor's New Groove" is a legend in my book. Fantastic and insightful video!

[@stellasilverstone]

how lovely it is to see a woman interviewed who worked on one of my favorite films ✨

[@th3azscorpio]

I miss actual handdrawn animation, especially theatrical animation. It's timeless, and it ages better.

[@mufasa9454]

Agreed!

[@thealetube3509]

Now It can be' done on computer.

[@caseymartin8047]

That behind-the-scenes look on Maggie from Home on the Range was pretty cool. Eating trick, finger-snapping tail and all. Wow!

[@caseymartin8047]

Even the character design

[@primallouie]

"I feel like being a woman isn't an issue." Love that.

[@SocratesAlexander]

I think animators are geniuses.

[@YumegakaMurakumo]

I loved emperor's New Groove. I also would of loved to see Empireof the Sun. I wish Disney would come up with an Incan princess with Inca lore.

[@kapiltv]

I ALWAYS LOVE THE TRADITIONAL WAY....

[@stellasilverstone]

i think i could be quite an emotional animator... but the thing here... is i am tired of making other things live before i have had a chance to live myself. i have always wanted to be an animator... but i want to live, first. i don't want to sit at a desk with my head hung down and slave away until i can no longer. but what a respect i have for those who did it. but i still love animation and want to learn it more,. maybe with a bit of finely honed rotoscoping skills, like in the early films. if i could animate on paper like the old days, it wouldn't be so bad. but staring at a screenlight is no life for me. sigh. i hope we return to paper soon

[@yahyabnegaming4167]

2:56 i thought she said half fart half crap lmao

[@Bax365]

Still holds true haha

[@pinkfrostedcwpcake]

this womans my hero!

[@Remiartdondo]

gosto muito do seu trabalho de desenhista , você desenhar muito. eu sou seu fan ,

[@adelarscheidt]

Inspiring words

[@paulogoncalvesdesenhos]

I like traditional animation!❤

[@lucascaiah]

Loved being here.

[@irenewebb409]

But I like your animation! It’s really great

[@kewlozer7979]

Inspiring

[@kapiltv]

INSPIRING

[@BrennaButcher]

did you work on kronks new grove

[@JoubignaxEvolved]

She is cute and talented ❤

[@frostychickenprods]

Oh no she worked on Emperor’s New Groove. Have y’all seen the banned Sweatbox documentary about that

[@NarutoUzumaki-fb7bs]

No I have not. Now I'm curious. What happened?

[@frostychickenprods]

Naruto Uzumaki kzbin.info/www/bejne/n2Omeqinaqpkna8

[@NarutoUzumaki-fb7bs]

@@frostychickenprods Thanks. I'll watch it when I get the time.

[@davidheard709]

Where can I find the paper material for animation?....

[@maeztroVlog]

I like animation! Guy plsss bite me im biting back thanks❤

[@vittrine5143]

😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@narutoraprendiendoarte7769]

Good Morning, Do you know where I can find a drawing table like the one you use in the video? I want to do 2d animation and, I do not know where to buy one. Thank you very much

[@FireCat_P]

@El Jay where? I've never been able to find one

[@FireCat_P]

@El Jay ok, thanks

[@Estrella_de_granada]

What is the program what use in your animation?

[@Bax365]

Paper and Pencil.

[@walkingstudio4543]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@MASJYT]

Nowadays it's either Photoshop, Animate, TvPaint, or Toonboom. Disney has its own software called Meander for 2D/3D hybrid.

[@user-xg8gd1mu2y]

what is the animation software do you usually use?

[@dspam7036]

Good meme👌

[@HundleysOnABirdDiet]

I think it was CAPS by Disney

[@systemgraffiti784]

I am an artist from Kenya and my dream is to do animation how can i begin?

[@delvin9494]

that depends if you want to do traditional animation or digital animation, if digital and you have a computer you can get a Wacom pen tablet.

[@Roboartist117]

Digital is more convenient, but I think drawing by hand (traditional) is the best way to really express emotion and movement. Just my PoV

[@dibdap2373]

Draw.

[@juancarlosruiz202]

You are so beautifull

[@irenewebb409]

I saw you animating the worst movie ever! ‘Home of the range’

[@artmanstudios7037]

she looks like she can go for one of dem cheeseburgers right about now?

[@zaranimates2416]

She’s so young

[@trarts8532]

I reed study help

[@oozaruks]

Cool.but I sucks at drawing

[@welcometochillies3084]

Same I rly want to be an animator tho

[@tommynotit9974]

One Above All I used to be SO bad at drawing but now if you look at my profile picture you can see that I have improved so just keep practicing what you like to draw!

[@dspam7036]

Then learn to draw, do stop motion, do 3d animation, or stick figure animation

[@damnthishandleistaken]

So Do I

[@starxshardsxwonder9652]

I want to be an animator but not yet

[@trarts8532]

Hi sister

[@paulmacmanus441]

marry me

[@ente3271]

WTF!?

[@darylbiegtrucke4456]

The fact people are asking about software here shows how hopeless the new generation of animators really are. Toonboom wont save you from your trash drawing skills and your trash understanding of actual animation principles.

[@Peticelombre]

I understand your frustation but you don't help anyone by saying that lmao, some people just want to start somewhere (and that question also became an overall joke so some of them are not even serious)

[@th3azscorpio]

Lol Tell em'. I think the advent of flash animation in tv animation, has handicapped a lot younger animators. All of the best pros did it with pencil, and animation sheets.

[@th3azscorpio]

@@Peticelombre Sugar coating the truth won't help them either. Especially looking at the quality of shows on the market currently.

[@mrcookedbacon324]

Why does anything besides results matter? Imagine gatekeeping progressions in society to make you as an old geezer feel better

[@Dustie1984]

@@mrcookedbacon324 hmm you will never get the same results as you would with hand-drawn animation. it's the touch and feel that speaks for it. even the fact you know it was animated by hand makes a difference. on top of it all, being able to do this - to animate drawings - is a hard skill, it's just impressive in itself.

[@yasenkalchev7664]

who would do traditional when you have pc...its a suicide