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Animators Of The World !!!?
Hiya everybody, I seek a career in Animation(films/games) and need information of eligibility criteria to join join animation training institutes....... I would also like....some name of leadind institutions in India and around the world (specially USA)..... It would be great if could contact some professional Animators... What are the qualifications needed to join Animation courses....and which are the most most important and essential softwares to learn 2 get in a gud animation career? Hope i get a genuine reply... Thank you !
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- Some URLs of sites relating to your questions: http://forums.awn.com/showthread.php?t=798 ( a forum dealing with Indian animation companies ), http://animation.about.com/od/industryprofiles/Profiles_of_Major_Names_in_the_Animation_Industry.htm ( an About page looking at the animation industry in general ). One of the most common 2-D computer animation programs is Flash ( http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/about/ ), while 3-D software is overviewed at this Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_computer_graphics_software. The 3-D one called Maya ( http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=7635018 ) is generally agreed to be the closest to studio quality and proportionally the hardest to learn (so obviously a somewhat marketable skill if you do!) As for animation courses... that's a pretty young world at the moment (in the past, people mostly made everything up as they went along, and that's still what's happening at the outer limits of the computer side of things), but here are some schools to check out: http://www.animationschoolreview.com/all-animation-schools.html On a depressing-ish side note, pretty much all the schools and companies in question deal exclusively with CGI, not cel or stop-motion (heck, even Disney is in that group).Fortunately, there are some programs to help in that arena too, like iStopMotion ( http://www.istopmotion.com/ ) and I Can Animate ( http://www.kudlian.net/products/icananimate/ ) -- but you'll also need a DV (Digital Video) camera, probably in NTSC format. I'm afraid I can't help in the cel department, but hopefully the other links can get you partway there.
