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
Generic Skills & Competencies
Critical Work Functions and Key Tasks
• 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
• 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
• 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