ANIMATION JOBS EXPLAINED

I randomly became a graphic novelist (I was an architectural assistant before and never intended to become an artist but hey ho, life has other ideas) and now I'm nostalgic remembering how much the animation industry influenced me while a smol bean doodling in 2019 💕 I'd LOVE to see my GN Brielle & Bear (pub date 2024!) to be animated one day, and how brilliant it would be to get a gig designing characters for animation one day! But I guess as a graphic novelist I decided I wanted to do all the 2d stuff😅😂 Storyboarding? Yup. Character design? Yup. Prop design? Yup! Background painting? Yup!! Visual development? (my FAVOURITE part of developing a graphic novel!)?? Yup!!! Best industry EVER ❤

Outsourced companies pays very low on developing countries. I had an experience where we have to work on an animated film on Netflix and my co-artists were only paid for $ 320 per month. That is not a liveable wage in our country. I quit being an artist now because I can't feed my family. I just really hope someday the world will be equal in some ways. Still, thank you for inspiring us! :)

Hello!! Thanks so so much for this wonderful and very useful video! It really helps to get a better idea of how everything works inside the studio 😄
I was wondering what a 2D character layout artist does within this pipeline. I don’t think it’s been mentioned and I’ve tried doing some research on it but found very little info… would it be similar to a story board revisionist?
Again… immensely grateful for this!! 🦄🦄🦄🖤🖤

I am in layout since Hanna Barbera days here in the Philippines, I can do 20 to 40+ latouts per week, experience does a lot in qualty and quantity in production.

thanks for the video it helped me a lot.

This was so wildly informative @laura Price! I'm going to rewatch and take some notes, then go watch some of my favorite movies credits again. Thank you so so so so much!

SUPER helpful!!! I'm sitting here with pages and pages of notes <3 Thank you for your time and effort for this video! Much appreciated by those of us trying to figure out where in the pipeline we want to work! :)

I wish there was more visuals, showing more than one of the names of the jobs in the pipeline for instance. I have ADHD and this was hard for me to follow even with subtitles on

I'm in school for animation and rigging but I don't use Maya I use unreal will that make a difference

Ahh finally after probably weeks i know the production of an animated series and movies are called pipelines

Am a new watcher can u say which course and were did u study animation and how did u become part of disney .....
And we can also study VFX.... How to do pls tell me..


Know i start seeing this video... 😀👍

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Thank u for this! I have been searching everywhere for what I want to do in animation. And I finally found this! So thanks!!! <3333

This was SO helpful! Thank you!

I dont even know how to start!! I kinda still like the use of paper though..

As a slow artist one background a day is terrifying omg

holy cow i wanted to be a animator who'll animate the animation but after watching the vid idk why im feeling scared and also exited

Aaaaa this actually what i need!!!!!!

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i studied animation, after that i got work as background artist in animation studio for 2 years. thats the first time where i see that there is so many role in making animation!

Which job that have hight salary especially in animation industry,just curious to know🌻✨

super informative!!

Would it be more difficult to get a character design job if you haven’t worked with Adobe products very much? I’ve never been able to consistently afford it, so my experience is in Clip Studio and paint tool sai.

I’m a junior in graphic design and I like it a lot but I constantly stress about what else is out there. Animation is so cool to me but I’m not sure if it’s something I want to or not. Do you know a good way to try it out to see if I like it? Should I just animate from home, or are there classes/internships I could take?

Great video by the way, it helps to know there is so much available :)

I was surprised you mentioned storyboarding to be the most difficult lol. I, personally, love everything about it. The staging, cinematography, camera angles, perspectives, all of it.

Self taught 2d animator here. I'm currently reaching the tail end of my animation projects for building my portfolio, and hope to start applying (and hopefully get a job) later this summer. I'm in minneapolis which actually has a pretty big but well connected animation industry for a city this size. Kind of already knew what I wanted to go into specifically but this was a very nice and informative video and I'll definitely be sure to keep a lot of this in mind going forward.

Very helpfull, but I really wished you illustrated the video with examples of what the jobs entailed, would help get a better idea :)

how many person to make 2D ami,ation

Thank you for explaining! And by the way your hair looks great !

I live in Vancouver and I know it’s a big hub for animation but Im still so scared to get into the industry, I really want to but I’m always changing my mind and thinking going into STEM will be safer 😞 my family is supportive but I just don’t have the confidence

says story boarding is intense
Me: cool 😎😛

Thank you soooo much Laura! ♥️ I was so confused about those jobs but now I understand it better 🥰

Laura I actually gasped when I saw that Yuhki Demers print on your wall! It's been my PC background for a year and a half now! It's such a specific painting that I never expected to see it anywhere else, haha.

Thanks so much for this video. I've always been an artist and have been curious about the animation industry, but never really thought of it as a viable career option for me. There's a lot of fear of not being "good enough." Hence why I'm studying physics/mechanical engineering currently. But it's been a lot more difficult that I expected! I'm really fascinated with visdev and am really considering switching majors night now.

I do have a question about all the hierarchy that you've mentioned: roles like directors and supervisors and producers. How do those individuals end up in those positions? Did they all start out as animators and background artists, and slowly work their way up? And how do writers end up with their positions as well? I'm so fascinated by all these different jobs!

wowwww thanks for explaining it all! Have been curious about how it all works together in animation :) (currently trying to get a job in prop design!)

What kind of degree did you get, if you have one? I am stressing my self out on if I should change my major.

Is there a job that a person has a story and whants to draw the characters for animators to make bc the person dosent know anything about computers? (sorry for explainning this badly ☹️)

Based off this I think character design is my dream job but I also wanna be a show creator

Which country is best for animation job...and international students are welcome there?

Storyboard artist = comic book writer

Tfw you love all these and want to learn all of them at the same time but you know you can't and proceed to learn nothing and find yourself in an endless cycle of procrastinating and failure

Hi wanna animate for me

OMG THNXXXX SMMM FOR MAKING THIS VIDDDD 😭 IT HELPED ME SMMM

How software is used in character designing? using pentool? or what? please explain

As a 3D layout artist I always feel like we get left behind! this stage is so often forgotten about in pipeline explanations haha thank you Laura! I wish others would also highlight how fast you need to work day-to-day in this industry, this is such a great video! Wishing you all the best at paramount <3 <3

Wow, great info dump! Detailed yet concise. Are character, prop and location designers all grouped under visdev since visdev artists are also responsible for those things? Or do character designers just flesh out the designs done by visdev?

This is really helpful, I’d like to create my own studio for animators, writers and musicians. Especially for creating my own cartoons.

Great info! Thank you!

This vid is very good! 👍🏿👍🏿