Produce the motions, gestures, expressions and performance of dimensional characters and inanimate objects
A junior animator creates animated assets and content, by producing the motions, gestures, expressions and performance of two or three dimensional characters and inanimate objects. This is a junior level role, so you’ll work closely with your colleagues, along with clients and team members. You must be able to take direction and feedback, in order to create the actions of your animated character, according to the story and the director’s wishes. To support this, you’ll learn to interpret a storyboard and any character layout or scene planning that has been done in advance. During the junior animator apprenticeship you’ll develop knowledge of timing and spacing within the story being animated and have excellent drawing skills. Using model sheets, and any given reference material, you’ll be able to visualise the character, object or creature in any number of poses, and stage them effectively according to the scene plan. You’ll learn how characters develop, and their role in that development, the principles of anatomy and how these affect movement, shot construction and composition, shot breakdown and contin