Mastering painting and drawing is no longer enough to succeed in the animation industry — coding and scripting are essential requirements for a position at a top animation firm.
“Right now almost all animations are made by computers. Fields such as movies and video games absolutely rely on computer graphics,” Computer and Information Sciences professor Norman Badler said. Badler is the director of the Center for Digital Visualization as well as a digital media design major in Engineering.
Badler pointed out that many students in the major who work in the animation industry usually end up becoming “technical directors,” who develop and improve software applications for the firms to help with animation production.
“There are typically two paths that you can go with computer animation. One is the traditional route of learning fine arts and work as animators, but we are in a technology heavy environment, so we go more with the other path, which is [to] do programming for animation firms,” Badler said
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