Special Effects Artists and Animators




Automation risk
Moderate Risk (41-60%): Occupations with a moderate risk of automation usually involve routine tasks but still require some human judgment and interaction.
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Growth
The number of 'Special Effects Artists and Animators' job openings is expected to rise 5.4% by 2031
Total employment, and estimated job openings
Updated projections are due Sep 2023.
Wages
In 2022, the median annual wage for 'Special Effects Artists and Animators' was $98,950, or $47.57 per hour
'Special Effects Artists and Animators' were paid 113.7% higher than the national median wage, which stood at $46,310
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As of 2022 there were 35,990 people employed as Special Effects Artists and Animators within the United States.
This represents around 0.02% of the employed workforce across the country.
Put another way, around 1 in 4 thousand people are employed as Special Effects Artists and Animators.
Job description
Create special effects or animations using film, video, computers, or other electronic tools and media for use in products, such as computer games, movies, music videos, and commercials.
SOC Code: 27-1014.00
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Also, would you have an AI do Lookdev when the client is looking for something stylized? The only way this would work would be if the AI. would be able to have that same back and fourth of ideas. It just can't.
however, it is not unlikely that ai/robots may assist in creating animation or art. for example, they could prepare reference photos, help make animation smoother etc.
i just don't think it is possible for something as creative as animation and art to be overtaken by a bunch of coding.
At the same time, AI is already making art... but I think people’s interest in art highly depends on their own creativity and ability to create art.
Just have a guy act and motion capture it and voila.
Not necessarily. The writers/directors will take care of this part, the AI won't need to understand that, it'll just animate it.
Arts are made for other humans to enjoy, therefore AI can't completely portray or convey what the humans want to create from his/her imagination. Art can't be made just by clicking one "Make Me a Good Art" button. Artists are still needed to concept and retouch.
AI mostly will be used to help quicken the creative process, not completely replace artists.
EVEN IF the AI managed to do all of above, it will be in a far distant future. It would take decades to do so. There are many better things for AI developers to do rather than prioritizing on this multimedia field, such as medical field, transportation, etc.
In the end, all we want to do is work and collaborate together with AI to enhance and quicken our creative work.
The way a human creates art is heavily influenced by environment, upbringing, current social situations both personal to the artist and globally, it’s heavily influenced by their teachers and definitely other forms of art (in music, painting, animation and/or film-making a creator will draw motivation, ideas and techniques from quite a few of his heroes, mentors, teachers, “that cool beat” or “this cool sequence found in episode X of favorite series Y”).
AI/neural engines, genetic algorithms, etc... they can do all that, they can learn from a teacher and iterate infinitely towards perfecting an outcome (whether good or bad in the eyes of most people), collect tons of references from which to base its art from.
I could only argue that the missing ingredient will still be “the soul”.While collecting, learning, etc a person can understand, learn and attach an emotion to said reference, skill, techniques, etc... while I see an AI being devoid of said understanding (at least in a remotely similar way) for the foreseeable future.
Allot of us will have also joined them as cyborgs or in death. if i make an identical clone of my brain it can still be an artist.
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