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VFX Industry Career Map Water Production management Entry level Pre-production Follow the dotted lines to see how visual effects in the film and TV industries are made. Art, graphic design, creative Data digital media Production Production input/output routes VFX Producer manager coordinator VFX editor (I/O) technician Runner Multiple entry routes Concept Previsualisation artist (previs) artist Computer science, maths, physics routes On set Computer-generated (CG) department Technical Entry level Computer Look Pipeline Rigging Creature VFX Modelling graphics (CG) development Animator technical technical technical supervisor supervisor artist artist director (TD) director (TD) director (TD) Entry level Entry level Entry level Entry level Entry level Entry level Assistant Software Data capture Texture artist Environment Layout Lighting Matchmove Effects technical technical technician artist artist artist artist director (FX TD) director (TD) developer Art, Compositing The stamps creative Art, show the routes digital media, animation, in. Remember, computer Entry level creative Entry level Entry level you can move science digital media from one routes Entry level roles are routes department to ones that you can another. do straight after education, whether that be school, college or university. Most entry level roles are in production. Some companies look for Art, new entrants in all photography, Compositing creative the production roles Prep artist Roto artist Compositor supervisor digital media listed. routes Go to ScreenSkills for more details: VFX industry career map www.screenskills.com/careers-in-vfx water. You can think of VFX skills as being • Maya, the ubiquitous industry 3D If you want to take a degree, make sure a VFX company can take you into being What is visual effects? on a spectrum, with artists at one end, package you take one that will best equip you for a production coordinator, then a line TDs in the middle and programmers at a job. Have a look at ScreenSkills’ Select producer or production manager and Visual effects (VFX) is the art of combining computer-generated • Nuke, the software used for VFX the other end. People are often surprised compositing list of recommended courses in VFX at fi nally a producer. Runners don’t need to to learn that a good degree in computer screenskills.com/courses and select one have degrees, but they often do. Check Looking for further advice? imagery (CG) with live-action pictures. Think of the dinosaurs in • Mari, for painting the surface texture of science or maths can lead to a career in in VFX. We recognise courses where they out the websites of VFX companies for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom or the fi nal battle in Avengers: models in 3D If you’re interested in a career in the VFX industry, check out these websites to VFX. offer training in the relevant software, opportunities. fi nd out more: Infi nity War. If a scene in a fi lm can’t be captured on camera, it’s • Substance designer, also used for dedicated time to building a portfolio and Producers designing surface textures have strong links with the VFX industry. The graduate-training route made through the ingenuity of VFX. ScreenSkills, for information on careers and courses: screenskills.com/careers-in-VFX Like any business, the industry needs • Houdini, which is used for effects Some companies recruit staff directly from people to manage the projects, sell the Whichever path you are planning to simulation undergraduate and postgraduate courses. NextGen Skills Academy, courses and apprenticeships: nextgenskillsacademy.com The picture in the UK follow, look into the destinations of other VFX services and seal the deals. There Go to the large VFX companies’ websites students who have taken that route. If The UK is an international leader in the VFX industry. DNEG won the VFX Oscar for is a shortage within the VFX industry Use these tools to create a showreel to and look for in-house graduate training Access VFX, helping people get into the VFX, animation and games industries: accessvfx.org recent entrants are employed in jobs that First Man in 2019. The year before, DNEG and Framestore received the award for of people with project management, show off your talents. schemes. These are usually for roles with interest you, you are most likely on the Show me the Animation, online magazine with information on events and opportunities: Blade Runner 2049. These companies, based in the UK, with other studios around accountancy, legal, marketing and Go to screenskills.com/portfolio to learn a high degree of STEM as well as art skills, right track. the world, are internationally renowned for their quality and innovation. sales skills. To be equipped for roles how to do this. You can also test your such as layout or technical animation (tech showmetheanimation.com like producer, accountant or marketing ideas and share renders through forums, anim) and effects specialisms. Make sure Bectu, the media and entertainment union: bectu.org.uk Almost all the UK companies that create VFX for the feature fi lm industry (98%) executive, you need to have core business blogs and video sharing sites like Vimeo Routes into jobs in VFX you have a strong showreel if you want to are based in London. However, VFX is also used in television, advertising and skills, an in-depth understanding of or YouTube. Those pursuing computer The apprenticeship route go down this route. science or code-based VFX routes won’t Produced by ScreenSkills games, so there are opportunities for VFX careers wherever those are made. VFX is the VFX pipeline and knowledge of the Apprenticeships are an alternative to usually have to develop a showreel but will increasingly being used in virtual reality for architecture, training and healthcare industry as a whole. university. They are jobs with training, The data wrangling route need to evidence relevant coding skills. Supported by National Lottery funds awarded to ScreenSkills from the British Film Institute to so they’re a great opportunity to earn Graduates who have gained experience too. Cardiff, Glasgow, Belfast, Manchester, Brighton, Bournemouth and Bristol are Generalists and specialists deliver its Future Film Skills programme as you learn. They are relatively new to in managing digital data within other all places where VFX is made. It’s worth being aware that your role will What to study the VFX industry, but NextGen Skills sectors and can demonstrate an interest in be different depending on whether you Statistics courtesy of ScreenSkills (Annual ScreenSkills Assessment 2019) and UK Screen Alliance What to study at school and college Academy (nextgenskillsacademy.com) fi lm and VFX can get a start as part of the are employed in a small or a large VFX (Inclusion and Diversity in the UK, Visual Effects, Animation and Post-Production, 2019) For art and technical director roles, a team looking after a VFX company’s data, The VFX skills spectrum company. Small VFX companies need has developed apprenticeships as asset management and rendering. This people who can do a wide range of things, trained eye and an appreciation of light junior 2D artists and Assistant technical You can think of VFX as being on a spectrum, with arts-based roles at one end involves supporting projects in production Design by Dave Gray (iamdavegray.com) so they employ generalists. In large and colour are vital to be able to make directors, so check those out. These are and STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) roles at the other. by backing up and moving data around or companies, employees will be working images appear real. A-levels or Highers in Level 4 apprenticeships, which means Many roles require both sets of skills. working in editorial as a data input/output With thanks to Phil Attfi eld (NextGen Skills Academy), Amy Smith (Framestore), Vic Wade on one specifi c part of the VFX pipeline, art, art history and photography can help they can be taken after A-levels, Highers technician. The work is usually shift- (DNEG), Lucy Cooper (Union VFX), Amy Blackwell (ILM), Simon Devereux (The Mill) picking up the work from one artist with this. It’s also useful to take A-levels or Level 3 diplomas. If you’re interested based, which means there’s time to take and handing it on to the next, so they or Highers in biology and physics as they in production roles, it’s worth looking internal online training and get feedback Originally commissioned by Yen Yau from Into Film are looking for specialists. You might be can be helpful in interpreting anatomy, for apprenticeships in marketing or on practice assets from VFX professionals someone who likes to excel in doing one mass, mechanics and movement. For accounting in related industries, such as between their shifts. Based on an original concept by Ian Murphy and Allan Burrell (www.compositingcoach.com) thing very well, or someone who enjoys programming roles, A-levels or Highers in a marketing apprenticeship for a video maths and computer programming are getting to grips with a breadth of skills. production company. Even if you’re not The animation route useful. working in VFX, you can develop skills that Consider junior roles in animation, such as you can transfer to the VFX industry later Develop yourself There are a wide range of Level 3 a lighting artist or junior compositor. Roles Art STEM on. Go to gov.uk/apply-apprenticeship to Developing your skills is as important vocational qualifi cations that are useful that require both STEM and art skills are fi nd apprenticeships near you. as gaining qualifi cations. Watch lots too. Look out for the AIM Awards Level 3 highly sought-after in both industries. If of movies. Take note of contemporary Extended Diploma in Games, Animation The internship route you can get into animation in this kind of and VFX Skills or NextGen Skills Academy culture and the way ideas are visualised.
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