What would you do as a Visual effects artist and animator?
Visual effects artists and animators
- usually work irregular hours and may work evenings and weekends
- usually work in offices, studios or workshops, and may travel locally and nationally
- need to be creative, accurate and work well under pressure
Tasks
- create visual effects and animations
- create advertisements
- design digital characters and environments
- prepare storyboards
- develop design concepts
- draw technical illustrations
- use animation and visual effects software
- adapt work to different devices and formats
How can you become a Visual effects artist and animator?
You need experience to become a visual effects artist and animator and a qualification may be useful.
You need
- experience in similar work
- examples of your work
You may need
- a relevant tertiary qualification in communication and media or graphics and design studies
If you're in school
You usually need NCEA Level 3 to do the study or training for this job.
