Animation Careers : A Day in the Life of a Computer Animator

A computer animator usually works in a team of illustrators who collaborate to bring the character to life. Understand how the animators work with the director to complete a scene with helpful information from a writer, director and animator in this free video on cartoon animation.

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Science & Technology

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• animation
• drawing
• 3d
• software
• cartoons
• animator

[Nhkms15]

working on a computer all day, does it eventually start to hurt your eyes maybe?

[TheCartoonistMan]

Fantastic advice! great discription of an animator's life!

[CookieFridays]

@blackham7 Math isn't involved in computer animation either, unless you're a robotic... animator, haha.

[RinoaHSquallL]

@blackham7 Depends, if you do a straight ahead style for 2d maybe not, but if you're doing pose to pose, most of the time people graph it out

[GUStavoSuperCool]

WHAT TABLET IS THAT

[YouCanSeeYourFace]

@Nhkms15 I work all day with computers, fixing them and constantly playing MMO's with them and it doesn't affect my eyes. However if you're new to it, I suggest working in short periods of time and taking breaks often. Also ergonomics is something to consider.

[blackham7]

you dont do math to create an animation maybe for computer but not for hand drawn animation

[RayWilliamJohansen]

drawing is to easy

[ImJasonForever]

@clothingman2000 from your comment, do you do character animations? if so I would like to know if the math involved in animation is hard and if it is neccassary to do math to create an animation.

[clothingman2000]

I put TOO much heart into my cartoon character! Sometimes I act it out.

[tuby676]

you said maya and then showed blender