Animators Are Some of the Happiest Workers in America, Survey Finds

AnimationMentor.com (Animation Mentor), the arch online appearance action academy created by animators for animators, today unveils key allegation from an action industry analysis that shows a active and advantageous workforce with a ablaze future. Animation Mentor commissioned absolute analysis close Knowledge Wave International to conduct the analysis to accretion acumen into an insider's appearance on industry trends, job titles, job achievement and salaries. "Behind the Characters: Professional Animator Job Satisfaction, Career Outlook and Salary Survey Report" is based on the responses of added than 1,200 able animators from over a dozen countries who alternate in the August 2008.

Animators are some of the happiest workers in America
The analysis explored job achievement and how blessed animators are overall. Of those surveyed, 59 percent of able animators enjoyed their plan and are appreciative of the plan they do. More than 80 percent plan to abide alive in this acreage and added than bisected would acclaim a career in action to accompany and family. These statistics put animators top on the account of accomplished occupations if compared to civic averages begin in the University of Chicago's 2007 "Job Satisfaction in America" analysis that articular clergy (67.2 percent) and firefighters (57.2 percent) the top professions area individuals classified themselves as "very happy."

The bacon angle for animators is bright
Professional animators were asked what their anniversary balance were for 2007 and if they anticipation their bacon would get bigger or worse in 2008. In 2007, added than bisected of the animators surveyed (51 percent) fabricated $40,000 or less, and 35 percent becoming amid $40,000 and $80,000 annually. In 2008, the angle brightened in agreement of absolute balance with beneath than 30 percent earning beneath than $40,000, and the majority of respondents (51 percent) earning amid $40,000 and $80,000. The analysis after-effects aswell showed a advance in the high balance ranges with 4 percent added assured to acquire added than they did in 2007, and 9 percent assured to acquire added than $100,000 against 7 percent in that chic in 2007.

According to the 2006 Bureau of Labor Statistics National Compensation Survey, animators' boilerplate salaries are college than boilerplate US workers and there seems to be acceptable abeyant for career advance and added salaries with greater acquaintance and beyond projects. However, according to the Animation Mentor survey, a lot of animators were added motivated by fun and adroitness than by money.

The top means the industry is changing
The analysis aswell looked at the top trends able animators are seeing and which accept the abeyant to change the face of the job landscape. The top three trends include: the acceleration of motion capture; the trend against outsourcing and cost-cutting; and that awfully fast advances in technology will appulse the way action is created.
Animators charge added than abundant action skills

When it comes to admonition for new graduates of animation, added than 50 percent said creating a top above audience reel is the capital advocacy for anyone aggravating to acreage their aboriginal job.

Mentors are an capital allotment of a acknowledged career
According to the survey, acceptance to advisers rank in the top three requirements for a acknowledged career in animation. In addition, creating and advancement a able arrangement of added chief animators charcoal paramount: One in 5 animators say they accept a coach at plan and mentoring is about as important for kick-starting a career as alive in the industry and accepting a academic education.

In the "Job Satisfaction in America" survey, a lot of of the occupations baronial top in accepted beatitude were professions involving allowance others, adroitness or abstruse and accurate expertise. Although the two surveys abstinent beatitude and job achievement in altered ways, there is a absolute alternation amid the akin of fun, beatitude and achievement and the aggregate of adroitness humans are accustomed to accurate on the job.

Animation Mentor meets the needs of the industry
Distinctive a allotment of art schools worldwide, Animation Mentor alone teaches appearance action in an online ambiance area acceptance apprentice anon from able animators from top studios including Disney Animation Studios, DreamWorks, Industrial Light & Magic, Pixar Animation Studios, Sony Pictures Imageworks, and more. Within classes that advance a mentor-to-student arrangement of no added than 1-to-15, acceptance apprentice the art of action - all aural a absolutely alternate online classroom area acceptance coact and apprentice beneath the abutting administration of mentors.

"Most animators are afterward their affection in activity so it's not a big abruptness that it's one of the occupations area humans are the happiest," said Bobby Beck, arch controlling administrator and cofounder of Animation Mentor. "Mentors and a able association are the foundation of our action school. The analysis affirms the accent of this."

"At Animation Mentor, acceptance are accomplished online by advisers who are alive animators. By graduation, anniversary apprentice completes the affairs with a audience reel," Bobby said. "We'll abide to use the analysis after-effects to added enhance our program, abutment the needs of the industry, and actualize alarming animators."

A adulatory archetype of the complete address is accessible at http://www.animationmentor.com/report

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