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Animator

The Animator supports animation production by developing animation assets as per instructions provided. He/She is responsible for delivering animation assets for production while developing skills to deliver complex animation sequences. The work involves working in an individual capacity to deliver creative outcomes as part of a team in a project environment. He spends significant time in research and regularly attends team meetings to align expectations with the team. He should understand and have a keen sense of performance theatrics, emotion and timing. He should be able to plan his own work and communicate effectively with team members and other stakeholders to function effectively as part of a project team.

Skills and Competencies

Technical Skills & Competencies

3D Animation
Proficiency Level
Create 3D animated sequences to support the development of 3D animated media to meet production requirements.
2
Compositing Visuals
Proficiency Level
Support the execution of compositing processes for animation or visual effects (VFX) by extracting assets, setting up compositing processes and executing simple compositing to meet production requirements.
2
Concept Creation
Proficiency Level
"Create original concepts using different techniques. "
3
Research
Proficiency Level
"Support research through data collection and organisation."
1
"Conduct detailed research and interpret preliminary findings."
2

Generic Skills & Competencies

Teamwork
Proficiency Level
Contribute to a positive and cooperative working environment by fulfilling own responsibilities and providing support to co-workers to achieve team goals.
Basic
Computational Thinking
Proficiency Level
Use computational models, tools and techniques to identify patterns in a problem and develop a solution.
Basic
Sense Making
Proficiency Level
Identify relationships and linkages within different components of data.
Basic
Creative Thinking
Proficiency Level
Connect ideas or information from related fields or applications to address an immediate issue.
Basic
Communication
Proficiency Level
"Communicate information with others to respond to general inquiries and to obtain specific information. "
Basic

Critical Work Functions and Key Tasks

Establish creative requirements for the project

• Interpret script to understand requirements for animation assets
• Conduct research on motion for characters, objects and other elements of each frame that need to be animated
• Contribute creative ideas to the animation briefing discussions

Develop creative assets for production

• Provide inputs for determining various kinds of simulated motion required in the animated scenes
• Analyse the physical motion of living and inanimate objects of various shapes, sizes and material composition as per project 
requirements to communicate to the team
• Create blocking animation from the animatic as per instructions to determine motion sequence for each shot in the scene
• Create key frames for animated sequences depicting motion using various animation techniques
• Utilize animation tools to develop animated sequences from created key frames
• Present created animation sequences to the team for review
• Refine animation sequences based on creative inputs from the team

Develop skills and portfolio

• Explore various available animation techniques to diversify skillsets and be able to deliver across a variety of projects with different 
requirements
• Build own portfolio with animation created from research as well as work done on previous projects to showcase own suitability for 
specific project requirements
• Explore different artistic themes and visual styles to enhance breadth and depth of own portfolio

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