Animation

Using multimedia theories and concepts, video and motion picture professionals create movies for the big-screen, videos for the Web and documentaries. Candidates interested in careers specific to video and motion pictures should develop skills in digital video formatting, audio production and sound mixing. Animators use drawings and other illustrations to create movement. These multimedia professionals can be found in the film, television, Web and gaming industries. Web designers create websites using fonts, colors, graphics, HTML code or Adobe Flash components. Web designers who are knowledgeable about search engine optimization have advantage, since a website's success is often determined by the amount of search engine hits and pages visits it receives. These designers may choose to specialize in the backend of Web development, typically focused on coding and Web databases. or a more client-side specialization, focusing on images, graphics and interactive design.