Animation: No Longer Just a Looney Toon
by Sue Booth
sue.booth@theanimationschooldirectory.com
The Animation School Directory Columnist
Snoopy and Charlie Brown are two of the most recognized cartoon characters of all time. Cartooning synthesizes fine art, pop culture, biography, and fiction with hand-drawn expanded with the growth of graphic novels, imported Asian comics, and a global craze for cartoon-based animation. If you’re an aspiring animation artist with hopes of becoming the next Charles Schultz, you may want to keep the field of cartooning in mind.
Animation: A Comic Burst
The Internet boom created a demand for cartooning. According to the LATimes.com, vice president and editor-in-chief of Hyperion Books for Children Brenda Bowen claims that the graphic-novel medium is thriving in “a very visual culture, fostered by websites. Words and pictures are now so inextricably bound.”
With the explosion of the cartoon industry, animation schools are giving cartooning more attention. Animation students are taught the essentials of writing practical dialogue and proper drawing. Accredited animation schools emphasize the sensitivity of the realistic emotion so it can be parodied, making the cartoon and the cartooning industry more credible.
Animation is Not All Comics
You don’t necessarily have to be in the business of comics as a cartooning graduate. Animation schools teach students the basics of cartooning: improving stories, pacing, page composition, and anatomy, which is helpful in many animation fields. With a solid cartooning background, many animation students choose the lucrative greeting card field or the cyber commercial industry.
Due to the successful nature of the field, applications are continuing to increase for animation schools cartooning curriculums. Many cartooning students are in their mid to late 20’s and already have college degrees. An online degree in cartooning can allow you the flexibility if you are already in the workforce.
Enroll in an accredited animation school that will teach you the art of cartooning by depicting emotion and maintaining high artistic standards. You could be well on your way to creating the next classic comic.
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About the Author
Sue Booth is an arts and education freelance writer with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and has experience with CAD.
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