Introduction: Animation and gaming has impact on every child, as a child everybody has enjoyed cartoon animation and video games and knows the experience it creates inside us through the visuals and sound. Such intrigue experience will remain with us through our lifetime and many of us will inspire to take up animation and gaming as career path to relive that experience but this time in a different way.
If you inspire to create your own animation and games then there is an innovative career in animation and gaming waiting for you. Animation is not just limited to creating illusion of movement of characters such as in a cartoon film but movies with special effects, hard to perform stunts and extraordinary real life imagery which does not exist in the real realm is all now being possible through animation 2D and 3D graphics.
There are thousands of movies influenced with animation and graphics just to name a few Superman, Spiderman, Avtar, Matrix, Ice Age etc. these are just a few examples of use of full or partial animation in the films.
To add to the credit of animation graphics stunts or situations depicted in a movie which are impossible to create in real life is all now possible through animated programming.
Talking about video gaming experience is now totally changed within a few years time with introduction of smart phones and android operating system playing games on a desktop or via a console is so outdated, smart phones are small and very easy to carry anywhere, literally this handy convenience gave us the freedom to enjoy our favorite games anywhere and anyplace we like.
Gamers are literally obsessed with playing games and they would spend any amount of money on high configuration phones meant for gaming just to enjoy the thrill and experience it creates and also to satisfy the envy among gaming peers.
Fundamentally, from the career point of view animation and gaming arena has great opportunities but at the same time it has cut throat competition because you cannot survive the creative competition if you are not passionate about animation and games.
The thrill and experience of a game is so short lived that a gamer gets bored easily and also there are so many options available that your game standing competition with other games is very less, this is not to dishearten you but to make you aware about the reality of game programming business, so that you make the career move with wisdom, one has to be innovative, creative and plan game concepts that will have a good life span giving the user an emotional experience that will motivate them to stick to your game.
Eventually you have to create new games and ideas to fulfill the market demands. To get into the animation and game programming career you have to acquire academic qualification and as well as required software skills that will help you enter the sector, one will keep on adding new skills with experience and time. To enter the field of multimedia one need to get a relevant degree of the field, perhaps one could get a degree, diploma and certificate.
A degree program will be B.A or M.A and B.Sc. or M.sc. (undergraduate and postgraduate) which will be a full time 3 years program depending on the college. Having discussed about the scope of multimedia, animation and gaming the field is just not limited to film making and games the digital world is expanding to other fields also which make it a great career choice with dynamic options available such as advertisement, art, medicine, engineering, research, business, entertainment and education.
Combining the power of imagination and tools of multimedia humans could achieve and take imagination to a next level where experience is exhilarating as well as astounding at the same time.
Eligibility Criteria Animation and Gaming
Basic eligibility: On has to complete 10+2 board exams from a reputed board with good qualifying marks for an undergraduate program. Further, if you are planning for a postgraduate degree then aspirant should have a undergraduate degree in multimedia (animation and gaming).
Why to choose the Animation and Gaming Career
Who this career is for: This career is for individuals who have a flare for imagination and loves the art produced by the tools of multimedia and have keen interested taking up it as a career, I would bluntly put it there that the career in animation and gaming is not for everybody and if you are investing into study the multimedia, animation and gaming then think twice before you get the admission done.
Having said that for those of you who are creative and feel ease to operate computer application should embark on this journey, it is combination of technical and of animation and gaming, professional in this field will become 3D modelers, animators, texture artist, riggers, VFX director, designers, production heads, art director and studio consultants.
There is a quite big demand of multimedia professionals in India and abroad because it is not a mainstream career choice and therefore not many professionals are produced against the demand so there is always a shortage of professionals who could fill the void in the market.
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Closing note on Animation and Gaming
Conclusion: The branch in the discipline of multimedia that is animation and gaming includes the various process within which various processes takes place to create imagery in such a way or manipulated to be precise, it all happens outside the context of a live action shoot.
Visual effects are the integral part of animation and gaming, it involves the live action footage and generated imagery to create environments which look certainly realistic, but otherwise would not be possible due danger involve or impossibility of the scene to be created due to laws of nature.
Now a days the computer generated imagery (CGI) have highly become common in action and non-realistic films which are increasingly been used in high budget films. Visual effects in movies are now very common as it helps the movie create interest among the viewers and also earn good money over the box office.
The counter part of visual effects is the arena of game programming, with advancement in the smart phones technology and the use of high end hardware in the phones, smart phones have replaced the need for a computer or a console per say.
Apparently all games which we used to play as children are now available on the android phones. Even though new games are launched every month, the need to play a better game or experience something new will always be there, games are emotionally piercing as it hooks the gamer with itself, the gamer lost in the virtual reality thinks itself same as the character and literally lives the game.
Creativity is the ever quenching thirst of mankind which will never be fulfilled so will be desire to express creativity through multimedia orders which is animation and gaming.
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