Careers

Academy of Art University offers some of the best training and hands-on experience to help accelerate your animation career. We pride ourselves in doing an exceptional job preparing you to excel in your chosen profession. Our degree programs are designed to equip aspiring animators with a comprehensive toolbox of marketable skills that lead to success in exciting animation and visual effects industry.

COMPANIES THAT HAVE HIRED OUR GRADUATES

2D Animator

A 2D animator is concerned with creating 2D images by either hand drawing each frame or digitally manipulating flat media for games, television, the web, or feature films.

3D Animator

A 3D animator is concerned with the movement in computer graphic imagery including characters, inanimate objects such as robots or cars, or cameras for television, feature films, or games.

3D Rigger

The 3D rigger creates a skeleton for a 3D model so it can move. Characters are rigged before they are animated because so they can be deformed and moved around.

Character Animator

A character animator in traditional, 3D, or stop motion is concerned with the performance on screen. An understanding of timing, movement, of humans and animals, and acting is essential to bringing characters to life.

Modeler

Modelers digitally build objects in a 3D environment, including cartoon and realistic characters, animals, plants, buildings, and cars. Models are built so that they can be moved, painted, and lit properly.

Producer

The producer realizes the director's creative vision by building a strong crew of collaborators. The producer champions creative, maintains the financials and schedule, influences tech innovation, and oversees the administrative process.

Stop Motion Artist

Good with your hands? With frame-by-frame manipulation, a stop motion artist creates a performance using posable puppets, props, and sets. Their work can be seen on television, film, and advertising.

Storyboard Artist

The storyboard artist translates the printed word into cinematic images. They provide the first look at what the final film or video game might look like. Storyboarding is a fast track to directing.

Technical Director: Compositing

A compositor uses digital software to combine separately created elements into one seamless image. They know color, lens effects, film artifacts, atmospheric effects, scale, perspective, parallax, and more.

Technical Director: Dynamics

A dynamics technical director uses particles and fluid simulation to create moving elements such as fire, water, and explosions for combining with live action elements or used in a fully CG project.

Technical Director: Lighting and Rendering

The lighting technical director determines the visual look for a film using light and color, and has a powerful influence on what the viewer sees and feels.