Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where an animator can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role an animator already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Animators use software to create animations, these are rapidly sequenced together images to create an illusion of movement.

Also known as 3D computer-generated imagery animator, 3D computer animation artist, 2D hand-drawn animator, computer animation artist, animators, animation specialist, 2D computer animation artist, traditional animator, 2D animation specialist, CGI animator, cartoon animator, 2D animation designer.

Professionals 48 skills on file 5 career moves 3 above 60% overlap Closest: animation layout artist, 75%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
animation layout artist 75% covered animation director 73% covered stop-motion animator 60% covered 3D animator 59% covered storyboard artist 52% covered animator You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from animator, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role an animator already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

An animator needs 17 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • create animated narratives communication, collaboration and creativity
  • create moving images communication, collaboration and creativity
  • motion graphics arts and humanities
  • provide multimedia content working with computers
  • develop animations communication, collaboration and creativity
  • study media sources information skills
  • computer equipment information and communication technologies (icts)
  • computer graphics information and communication technologies (icts)
  • design graphics communication, collaboration and creativity
  • follow a brief communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what an animator does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

Index

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Animator is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

Note

How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of an animator’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.