Junior Animator Apprentices learn the skills to create animated assets and content, by producing the motions, gestures, expressions and performance of two- or three-dimensional characters and inanimate objects. This route into the animation industry has options to study 2D Animation, Stop-Motion Animation, 3D Animation, and Interactive media and immersive reality, to accommodate a candidate’s interests and specialism, plus differing studio needs and styles of animation.
The Junior Animator Apprenticeship Standard was created by a trail blazing group of employers, led by ScreenSkills, so you know that everything you learn on the apprenticeship is industry designed and approved. You’ll be learning the up-to-date technical and soft skills needed to work in the animation industry.
Employers involved in creating the standard include British Animation Awards, Tiger Aspect, Framestore, Lupus Films, Blue Zoo Animation Studio, Aardman Animations, Red Kite Animation, Cartoon Network, Studio Liddell, Mackinnon and Saunders, Wildseed Studios, Hit Entertainment/Mattel Inc, Passion Pictures, CBB, A&O Studios Ltd, Collingwood & Co.
Previous Junior Animator Apprentices placements were in studios including Blue Zoo, DNEG, Sainsburys, Framestore, Jellyfish Pictures, Kong Studios, and V Prep. Apprentices work directly with their employer for 80% of the time, with 20% spent studying 'off the job'.