Multimedia Artists
Multimedia Artists and Animators
27-1014.00
Median wages
$45,780
Create special effects, animation, or other visual images using film, video, computers, or other electronic tools and media for use in products or creations, such as computer games, movies, music videos, and commercials.
- Create two-dimensional and three-dimensional images depicting objects in motion or illustrating a process, using computer animation or modeling programs.
- Design complex graphics and animation, using independent judgment, creativity, and computer equipment.
- Make objects or characters appear lifelike by manipulating light, color, texture, shadow, and transparency, or manipulating static images to give the illusion of motion.
- Apply story development, directing, cinematography, and editing to animation to create storyboards that show the flow of the animation and map out key scenes and characters.
- Participate in design and production of multimedia campaigns, handling budgeting and scheduling, and assisting with such responsibilities as production coordination, background design, and progress tracking.
- Create basic designs, drawings, and illustrations for product labels, cartons, direct mail, or television.
- Develop briefings, brochures, multimedia presentations, web pages, promotional products, technical illustrations, and computer artwork for use in products, technical manuals, literature, newsletters, and slide shows.
- Script, plan, and create animated narrative sequences under tight deadlines, using computer software and hand drawing techniques.
- Implement and maintain configuration control systems.
- Assemble, typeset, scan and produce digital camera-ready art or film negatives and printer's proofs.
- Create pen-and-paper images to be scanned, edited, colored, textured, or animated by computer.
- Use models to simulate the behavior of animated objects in the finished sequence.
- Create and install special effects as required by the script, mixing chemicals and fabricating needed parts from wood, metal, plaster, and clay.
- Computer aided design CAD software
— Autodesk 3ds Max Design; Autodesk Alias Surface; Autodesk AutoCAD Civil 3D ; solidThinking - Configuration management software — Perforce Helix software
- Desktop publishing software — Adobe Systems Adobe InDesign ; QuarkXPress
- Development environment software — Adobe Systems Adobe ActionScript ; C ; Unreal Technology Unreal Engine; XML User Interface XUI
- Document management software — Adobe Systems Adobe Acrobat
- Enterprise application integration software — Extensible Markup Language XML
- Graphics or photo imaging software — Ability Photopaint; Corel Painter; Microsoft Visio ; VectorDesigner
- Object or component oriented development software — C++ ; jQuery ; Object-oriented programming languages; Python
- Office suite software — Microsoft Office
- Operating system software — Apple Macintosh OS; Microsoft Windows; UNIX
- Platform interconnectivity software — Adobe Systems AdobeMlashMX
- Presentation software — Microsoft PowerPoint
- Spreadsheet software — Microsoft Excel
- Video creation and editing software — Apple Final Cut Pro ; Chaos Group V-Ray; Pixar RenderMan Studio; YouTube
- Web page creation and editing software — Adobe Systems Adobe Dreamweaver
- Web platform development software — Drupal ; Dynamic hypertext markup language DHTML ; JavaScript ; PHP: Hypertext preprocessor
- Word processing software — Microsoft Word
- Create two-dimensional and three-dimensional images depicting objects in motion or illustrating a process, using computer animation or modeling programs.
- Design complex graphics and animation, using independent judgment, creativity, and computer equipment.
- Make objects or characters appear lifelike by manipulating light, color, texture, shadow, and transparency, or manipulating static images to give the illusion of motion.
- Apply story development, directing, cinematography, and editing to animation to create storyboards that show the flow of the animation and map out key scenes and characters.
- Participate in design and production of multimedia campaigns, handling budgeting and scheduling, and assisting with such responsibilities as production coordination, background design, and progress tracking.
- Create basic designs, drawings, and illustrations for product labels, cartons, direct mail, or television.
- Develop briefings, brochures, multimedia presentations, web pages, promotional products, technical illustrations, and computer artwork for use in products, technical manuals, literature, newsletters, and slide shows.
- Script, plan, and create animated narrative sequences under tight deadlines, using computer software and hand drawing techniques.
- Implement and maintain configuration control systems.
- Assemble, typeset, scan and produce digital camera-ready art or film negatives and printer's proofs.
- Create pen-and-paper images to be scanned, edited, colored, textured, or animated by computer.
- Use models to simulate the behavior of animated objects in the finished sequence.
- Create and install special effects as required by the script, mixing chemicals and fabricating needed parts from wood, metal, plaster, and clay.
