Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a video artist can go next

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

Video artists create videos using analogue or digital techniques to obtain special effects, animation, or other animated visuals using films, videos, images, computer or other electronic tools.

Also known as interactive video artist, video effects artist, visual technician, graphics & video artist, visual manipulator, visuals artist, graphics and video artist, video graphics artist, video manipulator.

Professionals 51 skills on file 5 career moves 1 above 60% overlap Closest: digital artist, 66%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
digital artist 66% covered glass artist 50% covered conceptual artist 47% covered street artist 42% covered drawing artist 40% covered video artist You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from video artist, 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 a video artist already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

A video artist needs 29 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 special effects communication, collaboration and creativity
  • mix live images communication, collaboration and creativity
  • tune a projector working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • digital arts arts and humanities
  • convert into animated object communication, collaboration and creativity
  • create animated narratives communication, collaboration and creativity
  • adobe creative suite information and communication technologies (icts)
  • create moving images communication, collaboration and creativity
  • maintain audiovisual equipment working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • create digital images communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Video artist 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 a video artist’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.