How is animation as a career option? What are its career prospects?

Manjesh, If you want to do a job and make money, go for MBA at IIM and get into a top bank or financial organization. If you're so concerned about making money go for marketing and do the maximum sales. Since, you never said anything on what makes you a good candidate for animation, so maybe it's better to stay away as animation is a visual art and bad work can be seen easily. Only if you've a passion for animation, then come for a career in it. These careers are about doing things with passion and not about when you're buying your Audi. People with Audi's admire people with passion. Decide which of them you are. Wish you the best for your career. Remember, your career is a resultant of your knowledge combined with your passion and expression ability. If you like this answer you may select it as best answer or press like.

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As of 2015, the animation industry has matured in India and has moved on from being just an outsourcing facility to a creator of indigenous intellectual property as well. There are more than 300 animation studios in India as of 2015, which are estimated to have employed more than 15,000 animation professionals. As per the FICCI KPMG 2015 report, the year 2014 saw the value of VFX grow the highest at 22%, followed by post-production at 15%, animation production at 9% and animation services at 1%. We can see that the animation, VFX, gaming and comics (AVGC) sector of India is only set to grow further. As of now, 20,000 (5%) people out of 4 lakh people in the media and entertainment sector are employed in the animation, VFX and gaming side. This figure is expected to rise to 30,000 by year 2017 and 4.4 lakh by 2023. Work opportunities for quality animators and related professionals like graphic designer, multimedia developer and game developer, character designers, key frame animators, 3D modelers, layout artists etc. exists in following sectors at large - * Advertising * Online and print news media * Film and television * Cartoon production * Theater * Video gaming * E-learning Opportunities exists both with government as well as private sector enterprises. Animation itself is an industry and as an industry it’s on boom. There exist numerous animation houses both in India and abroad who work for clienteles. An animator and multimedia professional can also work as freelancer or start his / her own enterprise given he / she has entrepreneurial skills and funds for investments. Animators work in various capacities.

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Of course it’s a good option. You need to be very creative & innovative, and the good thing about choosing animation as a career is that it is one of the fastest growing industry. In future, demand for animators will be more. You can make career in gaming, movies, advertisements, and many more fields.

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Animation is a good career option. Once you get interest and experience in it, you can earn a very good income.

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Animation is one of the best career option. It has a wide range of prospects in different fields.

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Animation is a vast industry. When we say it animation industry, it is not only animation but it also contains a lot many domains and skills such as 3D modelling, texturing, rigging, lighting & rendering, 2D and 3D VFX, editing and composting, character design and many more. These are basically professional courses where even you yourself can start a small business with a very minimum investment. Also, you have option of joining 3D animation studios, gaming, VFX, editing compositing, TV, simulation, product designing, ad agencies and many more. If you want to get in to more detail, please feel free to visit me personally. I can explain you on this. Thanks.

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In today's new media scenario, it is not just animation but you can also look forward for other areas like VFX, gaming, web and graphic designing. Can you please share your educational qualification so that I can help you choose better?

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