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The Future of Animation Is... A Look into Industry Professional's Animated Crystal Balls


This article is an article about the future of many different fields of animation from several lead designers in their fields and their opinions on the future of animation. The author's and their comments help to provide insight into what the future of the animation field could look like. Many animators state that the industry has never been more booming and increasingly more and more demanding every day. With the success of animated movies that continue to roll out, Arthur Kautz states that, "animated movies have outperformed all other genres of film at the domestic and worldwide box office." This goes to show that animated movies is going to be an increasingly high demand field in the future for anyone interested in starting somewhere. Another point brought across by several animators is that animation is headed off into the realm of mobile devices. These authors state that with many app development kits being able to run off of PC and Mac operating systems, it allows more creative and innovative animations to come to life. One example is a game called The Little Fox. The Little Fox is a polygonal platform adventure game produced by Oleg Batrakov. This is the first highly successful game in this style of animation and hundreds of other developers have hoped on that train and started producing their own games in that polygonal style. Personally I feel that these animators all make valid points on where animation is going in the future. As someone who frequently watches and plays a variety of movies and games, I have a wide spectrum of animation styles to make my own biases on. I agree that animation will more than definitely start to have a bigger role in the mobile word, and not just when it comes to games. The proof lies in apps and switchboards that allow you to customize the animations on your phone and even on your computers as well, which according to many of these animators, will become a very prosperous industry in the near future.

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