UK Industry, Skillset2

Following on from the introduction of Skillset one interesting and probably in my opinion the most important page is job roles in the industry your looking into.

“Art and Animation

Game Artists create the images – all the objects, buildings, landscapes and characters – which make up the game world. Animators define and create their movement.

The majority of computer games are now developed using realtime 3D graphics and animation. Artists and Animators working in computer games development are usually trained or experienced in one of the major 3D modelling and animation packages, such as 3DStudioMax or Maya.

Game Artists work at many different levels in a games development studio. Job roles are often combined, and include concept artists, environment modellers, object and vehicle modellers, character modellers, animators, and texture artists. A Lead Artist or Art Director takes overall responsibility.

Job titles in this area might include:

Creative Manager
PreVis Artist
Art Director
Technical Artist
Lead Artist
Artist*
Concept Artist
Animator*
Environment Artist
3D Modeller
”

In a very good talk with Nicki Ball I remember her stating that everyone expects to be the highest job when they enter the industry. As I hope to eventually be a concept artist I believe it would be good to look for a job as perhaps as an apprentice artist based on my skills or even as a 3D modeller and work my way up with practice. The likely is however I will be freelance for a while as most artists do, it is also cheaper for companies to bring in temporary artists.

Uk Industry, Skillset

http://www.creativeskillset.org/

“Creative Skillset is the industry body which supports skills and training for people and businesses to ensure the UK creative industries maintain their world class position”

Skillset is a site shown to me by my tutor which is a site encouraging use of our skills in the UK industry of creative media. Espcially in genres such as animation and game design where it can often be tempting to work abroad due to more benefits.

The aim of the website is to give a bit more information about the actual industry you may be going into, as jobs avaliable etc.

Below is a nice picture taken from the site that shows the distribution of Game Companies in the UK;