According to people in this career, the main tasks are...
| Task | Importance |
|---|---|
| Design complex graphics and animation, using independent judgment, creativity, and computer equipment. | 89% |
| Create basic designs, drawings, and illustrations for product labels, cartons, direct mail, or television. | 86% |
| 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. | 85% |
| Implement and maintain configuration control systems. | 80% |
| Script, plan, and create animated narrative sequences under tight deadlines, using computer software and hand drawing techniques. | 78% |
| Create two-dimensional and three-dimensional images depicting objects in motion or illustrating a process, using computer animation or modeling programs. | 77% |
| 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. | 73% |
| Create and install special effects as required by the script, mixing chemicals and fabricating needed parts from wood, metal, plaster, and clay. | 73% |
| Make objects or characters appear lifelike by manipulating light, color, texture, shadow, and transparency, or manipulating static images to give the illusion of motion. | 72% |
| 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. | 72% |
| Assemble, typeset, scan, and produce digital camera-ready art or film negatives and printer's proofs. | 70% |
| Convert real objects to animated objects through modeling, using techniques such as optical scanning. | 67% |
| Create pen-and-paper images to be scanned, edited, colored, textured, or animated by computer. | 55% |
| Use models to simulate the behavior of animated objects in the finished sequence. | 53% |
