Skills and Education needed to become an Animation & Multimedia experts

Job requirements in multimedia calls for qualifications in video production, multimedia production, animation, or visual arts and related discipline. Areas of specialisation in animation and multimedia include a focus on production, programming and project designs. The specialties could range from visual design, 2D and 3D animation, audio-video synchronisation, technical writing, author-based programming, art direction and production, to motion graphics, interactive design, publishing, special effects, game design, 3D modelling and interface design.
 

Creating an animation consists of the following stages: idea development, pre-production, production and post-production. The characters are created in idea development stage. In pre-production, the ideas are converted into layouts. Scriptwriting, storyboarding, character development, backgrounds, layout designing, animatics and voice comes under pre-production. Amazingly, now animation not only includes the entertainment sector but also non-entertainment and increasingly telecommunications, as well.

For a better job prospect in Animation and Multimedia, one should have a degree or diploma in the related subject. Minimum education qualification for a degree and diploma course in Animation and Multimedia is 10+2 or equivalent.

A good multimedia professional is skilled in manipulating images and information from a variety of sources including audio, video, still images, animation, physical objects, text, soundtracks and digital data using computer applications and related visual and sound techniques. Good multimedia designers gain proficiency in programmes such as Adobe Premiere, Macromedia Director, Adobe Photoshop, and sometimes Microsoft PowerPoint for business presentations. Whereas animation, a part of multimedia, can be defined as a kind of optical illusion. Animation is an act of animating, or giving life or soul to still characters. It is a technique of making drawings move just like cartoon films. Animation is used basically for entertainment purposes.