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Specialties that pay

• Character animation

  Performance and acting. The hardest to fake and the most respected.

• Rigging and technical animation

  Building the controls other animators use. Fewer people can do it, so it pays more.

• Visual effects

  Simulations of fire, water, destruction and cloth. Heavy on physics and computing.

• Motion graphics

  Titles, ads and interface animation. Steadier work than film, with more clients.