what jobs can animators get

Well thats interesting!

Pretty much exactly as it sounds, a forensic animator will utilize his or her unique skills to help investigators piece together crime scenes and collate evidence for presentation to a jury.Forensic animators are also used often in insurance and/or liability claims, requiring strong experience in both 3D and 2D animation as well as terragen software in order to recreate real life locations and scenarios.

Forensic Animator Career Path: An already established animator can transfer over to forensic animation via specialist courses, but be warned: your flashy portfolio of superb SFX won’t do you any good since the field calls for technical attention to detail over dramatic embellishments. A criminal record will kill this career dead in the water, too.

Usually freelance a forensic animator can charge between $20 -$100 an hour depending on experience. 

Thats a pretty cool job and definitely not something I had thought of!!




Other career paths include tv& film animation, video game animation, commercial animation, educational animation- all explained here:

http://animation-school.net/what-can-i-do-with-a-degree-in-animation/




A great message from Chris Oatley :


Are you an artist? …a visual storyteller?

…then keep drawing and telling stories.

You can’t let fluctuations in the industry and/or economy kill your creativity.

…and you don’t need a job in the animation industry to validate your calling.

The world needs visual stories. Humanity thrives on visual stories.

I think you should draw or tell the stories inside of you even when you aren’t getting paid.

…especially when you aren’t getting paid.

We must distinguish the truth of our internal calling as creative people from all external forces.

However it is not just animation jobs that we can apply for. Being an animator means we are designer, fimographers, sotryboarders, illustrators and much more including for me photography and graphic design. We have a wide skill set and we shouldn't forget it when applying for jobs. Even if we aren't pros at our other skills, a lot of studios are willing to retrain you so you do it the way they want it anyway! Having all of these skills really opens up the freelancing opportunities and i think it would be a good task to refine each skill that we perhaps haven't thought of before.