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Summary Job Description | Tasks | |||
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. | Design complex graphics and animation, using independent judgment, creativity, and computer equipment. | |||
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Create two-dimensional and three-dimensional images depicting objects in motion or illustrating a process, using computer animation or modeling programs. | ||||
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Make objects or characters appear lifelike by manipulating light, color, texture, shadow, and transparency, or manipulating static images to give the illusion of motion. | ||||
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Assemble, typeset, scan and produce digital camera-ready art or film negatives and printer's proofs. | ||||
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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. | ||||
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Script, plan, and create animated narrative sequences under tight deadlines, using computer software and hand drawing techniques. | ||||
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Create basic designs, drawings, and illustrations for product labels, cartons, direct mail, or television. | ||||
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Create pen-and-paper images to be scanned, edited, colored, textured or animated by computer. | ||||
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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. | ||||
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Use models to simulate the behavior of animated objects in the finished sequence. | ||||
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Create and install special effects as required by the script, mixing chemicals and fabricating needed parts from wood, metal, plaster, and clay. | ||||
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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. | ||||
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Convert real objects to animated objects through modeling, using techniques such as optical scanning. | ||||
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Implement and maintain configuration control systems. | ||||
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CompGeo Salary Survey Benchmark Job Summary and Competencies
Multi-Media Artsits and Animators
The Benchmark Job Description below represents the specific Position Characteristics of the job used in the Salary Survey. Benchmark Job Descriptions should be inspected carefully to review the degree of matching between an organizations' Job and the Salary Survey Benchmark. Matching internal Jobs to Salary Survey Benchmark Jobs should not be done on Job Title alone. A thorough comparison of Salary Survey Benchmark to Internal Job Descriptions is recommended. A good overlap should exist on any comparisons used on critical Job Dimensions and Competencies.- Job Description
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Important Knowledge Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Communications and Media | Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media. | |||
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Design | Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models. | |||
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Fine Arts | Knowledge of the theory and techniques required to compose, produce, and perform works of music, dance, visual arts, drama, and sculpture. | |||
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Computers and Electronics | Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming. | |||
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English Language | Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar. | |||
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Customer and Personal Service | Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction. | |||
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Administration and Management | Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources. | |||
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Important Skill Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Active Listening | Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. | |||
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Reading Comprehension | Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents. | |||
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Critical Thinking | Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. | |||
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Time Management | Managing one's own time and the time of others. | |||
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Speaking | Talking to others to convey information effectively. | |||
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Coordination | Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions. | |||
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Judgment and Decision Making | Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. | |||
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Writing | Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience. | |||
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Active Learning | Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making. | |||
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Monitoring | Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. | |||
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Complex Problem Solving | Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions. | |||
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Social Perceptiveness | Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do. | |||
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Persuasion | Persuading others to change their minds or behavior. | |||
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Negotiation | Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences. | |||
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Instructing | Teaching others how to do something. | |||
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Learning Strategies | Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things. | |||
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Service Orientation | Actively looking for ways to help people. | |||
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Systems Analysis | Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes. | |||
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Important Ability Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Written Comprehension | The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. | |||
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Oral Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. | |||
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Near Vision | The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). | |||
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Oral Comprehension | The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. | |||
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Visualization | The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged. | |||
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Written Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand. | |||
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Problem Sensitivity | The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem. | |||
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Deductive Reasoning | The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. | |||
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Visual Color Discrimination | The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness. | |||
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Speech Clarity | The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. | |||
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Originality | The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem. | |||
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Inductive Reasoning | The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). | |||
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Information Ordering | The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). | |||
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Selective Attention | The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. | |||
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Fluency of Ideas | The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity). | |||
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Category Flexibility | The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. | |||
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Speech Recognition | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. | |||
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Far Vision | The ability to see details at a distance. | |||
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Flexibility of Closure | The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material. | |||
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Finger Dexterity | The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects. | |||
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Perceptual Speed | The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object. | |||
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Arm-Hand Steadiness | The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position. | |||
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Tools/Technology Example | Product Category | |||
ACD Systems Canvas | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Ability Photopaint | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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ActionScript | Development environment software | |||
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Adobe Systems Adobe AIR | Development environment software | |||
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Adobe Systems Adobe After Effects | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Adobe Systems Adobe Creative Suite software | Development environment software | |||
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Adobe Systems Adobe Director | Video creation and editing software | |||
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Adobe Systems Adobe Dreamweaver | Web page creation and editing software | |||
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Adobe Systems Adobe Fireworks | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Adobe Systems Adobe Flash | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Adobe Systems Adobe Flash Lite | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Adobe Systems Adobe Flex | Web platform development software | |||
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Adobe Systems Adobe FreeHand MX | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Adobe Systems Adobe Illustrator | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Adobe Systems Adobe ImageReady | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Adobe Systems Adobe InDesign | Desktop publishing software | |||
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Adobe Systems Adobe Photoshop software | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Adobe Systems Adobe Premiere Pro software | Video creation and editing software | |||
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Adobe Systems Adobe Shockwave Player | Web platform development software | |||
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Ambient Design ArtRage | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Apple DrawBerry | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Apple Final Cut Studio | Video creation and editing software | |||
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Aqsis Renderer | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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AutoDesSys form Z | Computer aided design CAD software | |||
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AutoQ3D | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Autodesk 3ds Max for Design Visualization | Computer aided design CAD software | |||
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Autodesk Alias Design | Computer aided design CAD software | |||
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Autodesk Alias Surface | Computer aided design CAD software | |||
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Autodesk Combustion | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Autodesk Maya | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Autodesk MotionBuilder | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Autodesk Mudbox | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Autodesk SketchBook Pro | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Autodesk SoftImage | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Blender | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Bohemian Coding DrawIt | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Bunkspeed HyperDrive | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Bunkspeed HyperMove | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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C | Development environment software | |||
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C++ | Object or component oriented development software | |||
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Caligari Corporation trueSpace | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Cascading Style Sheets CSS | Web platform development software | |||
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Celsys RETAS | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Chaos Group V-Ray software | Video creation and editing software | |||
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Character Studio | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Cheetah3D | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Code libraries | Development environment software | |||
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Component libraries | Development environment software | |||
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Corel CorelDRAW Graphics Suite | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Corel Painter | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Crytek CryEngine | Development environment software | |||
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Cybermotion 3D Designer | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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DAZ Productions Bryce | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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DAZ Productions Carrara | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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DX Studio | Development environment software | |||
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Electric Rain Swift 3D Xpress | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Extensible Hypertext Markup Language XHTML | Web platform development software | |||
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Extensible Markup Language XML | Enterprise application integration software | |||
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Freeverse Lineform | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Google SketchUp Pro | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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HASH Animation:Master | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Hypertext Markup Language HTML | Web platform development software | |||
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Indigo Renderer | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Inivis AC3D | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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JavaScript | Web platform development software | |||
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Luxology Modo | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Luxrender | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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MAXON CINEMA 4D | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Macintosh OS | Operating system software | |||
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Macromedia Flash Remoting MX | Platform interconnectivity software | |||
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MagicTracer | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Massive Jet | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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MaxScript | Development environment software | |||
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Maxon BodyPaint 3D | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Maxwell Render | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Maya Embedded Language MEL | Development environment software | |||
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Mental Images Mental Ray | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Microsoft Excel | Spreadsheet software | |||
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Microsoft Expression Design | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Microsoft Office software | Office suite software | |||
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Microsoft PowerPoint | Presentation software | |||
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Microsoft Silverlight | Web platform development software | |||
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Microsoft Windows | Operating system software | |||
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Microsoft Word | Word processing software | |||
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NVDIA Gelato | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Nevercenter Silo | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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NewTek Lightwave 3D | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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NodeBox | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Object-oriented programming languages | Object or component oriented development software | |||
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Pixar RenderMan Studio | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Pixarra TwistedBrush | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Pixelmator | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Pixologic Zbrush | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Quad Software Grome | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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QuarkXPress | Desktop publishing software | |||
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RealFlow | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Satori Paint | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Serif DrawPlus | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Side Effects Software Houdini | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Skencil | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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SmithMicro Anime Studio | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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SmithMicro Manga Studio | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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SmithMicro SoftwarePoser | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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SplutterFish Brazil | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Sunflow Render System | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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TechSmith Camtasia | Video creation and editing software | |||
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Three-dimensional graphics software | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Trapcode Particular | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Two-dimensional graphics software | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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UNIX | Operating system software | |||
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Unreal Technology Unreal Engine | Development environment software | |||
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VectorDesigner | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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XML User Interface XUI | Development environment software | |||
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Xara Xtreme | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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e-on software Vue | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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sK1 | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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solidThinking | Computer aided design CAD software | |||
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Digital paper | Graphics tablets | |||
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Digital pens | Pressure stylus | |||
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Panoramic digital cameras | Digital cameras | |||
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Personal computers | Personal computers | |||
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Prerequisite Qualification Category | Education and Experience Level | |||
Required Level of Education | Bachelor's Degree | |||
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Related Work Experience | Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years | |||
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On-Site or In-Plant Training | Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year | |||
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Alternate Job Title(s) | |||
3D Animator | |||
3D Artist | |||
3D Specialist | |||
Animation Artist | |||
Animation Director | |||
Animation Producer | |||
Animator | |||
Anime Artist | |||
Art Director | |||
Artist | |||
Audio/Video Engineer | |||
Cartoon Animator | |||
Cartoon Artist | |||
Compositor | |||
Computer Animator | |||
Computer Artist | |||
Computer Graphic Artist | |||
Computer Graphic Designer | |||
Computer Graphics Illustrator | |||
Concept Artist | |||
Creative Director | |||
Creative Services Producer | |||
Design Director | |||
Designer | |||
Digital Artist | |||
Digital Media Designer | |||
Game Artist | |||
Game Developer | |||
Graphic Artist | |||
Graphic Designer | |||
Graphics Specialist | |||
Illustrator | |||
Interactive Digital Media Specialist | |||
Media Producer | |||
Media Specialist | |||
Media/Instructional Designer | |||
Motion Graphics Artist | |||
Motion Pictures Cartoonist | |||
Multimedia Artist | |||
Multimedia Author | |||
Multimedia Authoring Specialist | |||
Multimedia Designer | |||
Multimedia Developer | |||
Multimedia Producer | |||
Multimedia Specialist | |||
Production Assistant | |||
Production Manager | |||
Prop and Effects Designer | |||
Special Effects Artist | |||
Special Effects Designer | |||
Special Effects Specialist | |||
Special Effects Technician | |||
Storyboard Artist | |||
Streaming Media Specialist | |||
Studio Designer | |||
Texture Artist | |||
Video Game Animator | |||
Videographer | |||
Virtual Reality Specialist | |||
Web Designer | |||
Web Graphic Designer | |||
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