The animation initially was made in stop motion or 2D animation. From 1970s it bore a new way to animate, that slowly through the years has been used more often. That is CGI animation, because computers became cheaper it was easier to buy them and using this new technology for special effects in movies. It starts to be used in 2D animation movies like in Disney's movie "The Great Mouse Detective".
One of the first CGI studios Pixar does the first feature-length computer-animated film Toy Story.
The introduction of 3D animation helps to create and animate things that before was really hard to do it. However even if CGI helps in many different ways, it has also to follow many rules common with 2D animation like Newton’s Laws of Motion (bouncing, squashing ecc.) .
The introduction of 3D animation helps to create and animate things that before was really hard to do it. However even if CGI helps in many different ways, it has also to follow many rules common with 2D animation like Newton’s Laws of Motion (bouncing, squashing ecc.) .
CGI animation continues improving in videogames too, with the birth of the new video game consoles, and with this evolution of technology are being created many different programs for using 3D animation, like Blender, Autodesk Maya, ZBrush ecc.
With this new market in developing, it creates a lot of new opportunities of job, some of them are the same of 2D animation but they are employed of 3D animation.Most of the CGI studios are set in: Uk, U.S.A., France, Canada and Japan, but they are expanding in other places like in Spain, German, Norway. But for now I am choosing to look for a job in UK, probably in Bristol or in Dublin, because there are a lot of interesting studios, like: 422 South, 1988, Bristol and London (TV), Framestore CFC, London and New York (visual effects), The Moving Picture Company (MPC), Soho, London (Film, Advertising),Interference Pattern, Edinburgh (TV, Advertising, Games),Rockstar North, Edimburgh, (videogame studio) .
Some useful links are: www.interferencepattern.com, www.creativeblog.com, http://422.com/, www.framestore.com, www.gamesindustry.biz, www.moving-picture.com . And some interesting animation festival that can be found in UK are: Bafta, Bradford Animation Festival, Encounters International Short film festival, London Short Film Festival and LIAF festival.
With this new market in developing, it creates a lot of new opportunities of job, some of them are the same of 2D animation but they are employed of 3D animation.Most of the CGI studios are set in: Uk, U.S.A., France, Canada and Japan, but they are expanding in other places like in Spain, German, Norway. But for now I am choosing to look for a job in UK, probably in Bristol or in Dublin, because there are a lot of interesting studios, like: 422 South, 1988, Bristol and London (TV), Framestore CFC, London and New York (visual effects), The Moving Picture Company (MPC), Soho, London (Film, Advertising),Interference Pattern, Edinburgh (TV, Advertising, Games),Rockstar North, Edimburgh, (videogame studio) .
Some useful links are: www.interferencepattern.com, www.creativeblog.com, http://422.com/, www.framestore.com, www.gamesindustry.biz, www.moving-picture.com . And some interesting animation festival that can be found in UK are: Bafta, Bradford Animation Festival, Encounters International Short film festival, London Short Film Festival and LIAF festival.