How can I become a Stop-motion artist? What kind of starting salary can I expect?

Stop Motion Animator jobs: Stop motion animators combine the art of photography, narrative skill, the ability to manipulate lighting and calculate angles to create stop motion animation without digitally manipulating it. The animator creates pictures of objects, characters, or scenes that show them in various positions. When the pictures run together, it appears that the object is moving on its own. This creates one of the most unique forms of animation, which is neither cartoon-like nor similar to computer-generated animations. Stop motion animators work for animation studios, film studios, game design and development companies, and advertising agencies. Stop Motion Animator Salaries Stop motion animators belong to the broad career group multimedia artists and animators. The median annual wage for this career group is $61,370 per year. The lowest paid multimedia artists and animators earn less than $34,860. The highest paid artists earn $113,470 per year. At $72,680, multimedia artists and animators working in the motion picture and video industries earn the highest median annual wage of the top five industries for this profession. It is important to note that multimedia artist and animator salaries may vary by experience, type and size of the company, and even geographic location. For example, the average salary of California-based multimedia artists and animators is $88,150 per year, the nation's highest average salary for this profession, while Arkansas-based artists get an average salary of $40,890, one of the lowest. The top five highest paying states for multimedia artists and animators are California ($88,150 per year), Washington State ($76,900), District of Columbia ($76,110), New York ($72,530), and New Mexico ($70,310).

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Stop motion animators are a unique bunch. They use models, puppets, or clay to create animated films, television commercials, branded entertainment, and more. Stop motion animation is also called stop frame, model animation, puppet animation, and clay animation. Stop motion animators combine the art of photography, narrative skill, and the ability to manipulate lighting and calculate angles to create stop motion animation without digitally manipulating it. The animator creates pictures of objects, characters, or scenes that show them in various positions. When the pictures run together, it appears that the object is moving on its own. This creates one of the most unique forms of animation, which is neither cartoon-like nor similar to computer-generated animations. Stop motion animators work for animation studios, film studios, game design and development companies, and advertising agencies. Salary depends on your portfolio, experience and the studio you work at. Minimum salary for a fresher is 1, 80,000 INR per annum. However, if you have graduated from a reputed college, and have an impressive portfolio you may be offered 6 lakhs INR per annum. Arena and MAAC provide courses in Stop Motion animation. NID too has a degree in animation which will comprises other aspects of animation too. In institutes you won’t need to give an entrance exam. At NID you will have to show your creativity skills. You can see more details regarding the exams in the following link-<a href="https://www.shiksha.com/design/communication-design/exams/nid-entrance-exam" style='word-wrap:break-word;'>https://www.shiksha.com/design/communication-design/exams/nid-entrance-exam</a>

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