Bright Future of the Animation Industry

Thankfully for many of us in the Digital Media class, the animation industry is still growing at a steady pace (about 7% a year). New jobs are being created and the demand for animators is slowly increasing. Before Dreamwork's Shrek came along, there was no such category for "Best Animated Feature" in the Academy Awards, but with animations slowly becoming more and more prevalent, that slowly changed. With the rise of Disney, Dreamworks, and Pixar, this new media form simply could not be ignored any longer. In theaters, animated films were literally fun for the whole family, young and old. They appealed to children and adults alike and brought in quite a bit of money to the box office. The industry is worth approximately $222 Billion USD and had about 67 thousand multimedia artists employed in 2012 and it is estimated that that number will rise to about 73 thousand in 2022. The median pay for these artists was $61,370 in 2012 and the job growth outlook was about 6%. This is good news to us animators in the Digital Media class because these statistics tell us that jobs are still out there for the taking in the animation field, locally in the United States or abroad. It is a growing media outlet and the demand for artists is high.

This article gave me a bit of hope, but I would still have to go back and re-read the article to fully and completely grasp exactly what those numbers mean to me as an individual. There is still hope for my animation career. Are there any local animation jobs, or are they all the way in California and such? Animation is not a dieing medium. I have a dear friend who has been getting picked on because she wants a career in art but this article proves that not all artists and animators are "starving artists".

Median pay in 2012 was $61,370 a year and the job growth outlook is 6% - See more at: http://blog.animationmentor.com/why-animation-continues-to-thrive-as-an-art-form-and-an-industry/#sthash.qYc4hSMK.dpuf

Median pay in 2012 was $61,370 a year and the job growth outlook is 6% - See more at: http://blog.animationmentor.com/why-animation-continues-to-thrive-as-an-art-form-and-an-industry/#sthash.qYc4hSMK.dpuf