An animator creates an extensive series of images that forms the animation seen in movies, commercials, television programs or video games. He or she typically specializes in one of these media and may further concentrate on a very specific area, for example, characters, scenery or background design. Animators typically use computer software to do their work. The animator is a member of a team that consists of other animators and artists who collaborate on projects.
Quick Facts
1.Animators earned a median annual salary of $63,630 and hourly wages of $30.59 in 2014 (U.S.).
2.Just over 64,000 people were employed as animators (U.S., 2014).
3.According to Animation Review, the top four cities in North America for animation careers are San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York and Vancouver, Canada.
4.About half of all animators are self-employed.
5.Job are concentrated in the motion picture and video industries.
6.Expect to work late hours, weekends and holidays when deadlines are approaching.
7.The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics expects employment growth to be as fast as the average for all occupations through 2024. If more employers choose to save money by hiring animators from overseas, the job outlook in the United States may worsen.
A Day in an Animator's Life
These are some typical job duties taken from online ads for animator positions found on Indeed.com:
*"Create expressive character animation that portrays a wide range of emotions"
*"Recommend the best approaches to integrate 3-D components into final commercial quality products"
*"Create high-quality animations by utilizing both hand key animation and motion capture data"
*"Give and receive constructive and creative feedback across involved teams"
*"Collaborate with other animators, clients and producers"
*"Create prototypes and mock-ups of new types of products"
*"Brainstorm and conceptualize ideas, with ability to produce concept sketches and quick concept edits"
*"Comprehend and execute direction from Lead Animator or Animation Supervisor"
How to Become an Animator
While an animator isn't required to have a college degree, most employers prefer to hire job candidates who have a Bachelor's degree in Animation, Computer Graphics or a related discipline. If you want to create animation for video games, you should earn a degree in video game design or interactive media.
An animator needs more than artistic talent to work in this occupation. In addition to the technical skills you will learn in an academic program, you must have certain soft skills to be successful. Because animators must function as part of a team, good communication skills, including strong listening and speaking skills, are extremely important. Tight deadlines call for excellent time management skills. Without the ability to think creatively, you will not be able to generate ideas and bring them to fruition. Strong computer skills are necessary because much your work will involve using sophisticated computer software and you may also have to write code.
Gautam Buddha's Remains May Just Have Been Found In A 1000-Year-Old Casket In China
In China, archaeologists have discovered an ancient casket that could hold the remains of Gautam Buddha. The remains were discovered by teams of experts excavating the Nanjing area in 2010. However, the discovery was only recently published in English by the Chinese Cultural Relics journal.
Experts believe that a skull bone of the Buddha may have been found inside a model of a stupa concealed within a 1,000-year-old stone casket in the crypt of a Buddhist temple, reports LiveScience.
The box is made of sandalwood, gold, and silver. Inscriptions on the box suggest that two monks named Yunjiang and Zhiming, from the Manjusri Temple in the Longxing Monastery, had collected more than 2,000 pieces of the Buddha's cremated remains over a span of 20 years and buried them in the temple in 1013.
The findings published in the journal say that the stupa model was found in the crypt of the Grand Bao’en Temple. It measured nearly 4 feet by 1.5 feet.Other statues measuring over 6 feet tall were also discovered in the excavation but experts are unsure if these were buried at the same time as the Buddha's remains, reports Archaeology.
This Headless Robot Moves Like A Real Dog, And Is Everything That Fuels Your Worst Nightmares
Boston Dynamics, a robot maker that’s been in the spotlight for the past few years, has just published a video to YouTube, capturing its latest and most advanced robot in action.
The mechanical creature was first unveiled by the company in June 2016. Boston Dynamics was owned by Alphabet at the time, before eventually being sold to Japan-based telecom/tech giant Soft Bank.
The Spot-Mini originally started out as a household robot looking more like deer than its current dog form. At the time, not only was it terrible at performing said chores, it was also prone to slipping on banana peels.
The new version has none of those issues. First off, it has a makeover to give it a much more polished look. The tall neck is gone, making it now resemble a weird metal dog hybrid. It even moves like a real dog too, as it trots around on four “paws”, albeit in a very showboating manner.
However, it’s that range and fluidity of movement that perfectly demonstrate just how much progress Boston Dynamics has made in the field, building animal-inspired robots that can be used in real-life situations.
The video says the SpotMini is “coming soon,” but it’s not yet clear whether that means the bot is just going to get an official reveal as a technological marvel, or is actually going up for sale as a commercial product. Either way, consider us both excited and incredibly creeped out.
And to be honest, we’re not sure whether to be impressed or horrified at how realistic it
Feel The Spark Missing In The Relationship? Retail Therapy Might Be The Answer, Says New Study
Ever felt jealous about the attention your partner was giving to someone else? Trying retail therapy! Buying eye-catching T-shirts or dresses may help you gain love back in your life. A new study has suggested that feelings of jealously may motivate people to buy things that were more likely to recapture the attention of their partner.
The findings showed that feelings of jealousy increases the desire for buying eye-catching products -- such as a bright colored coat instead of a dull-colored one, or a T-shirt with a big logo design versus a low-key design. “We believe that this effect is not just restricted to jealousy in romantic relationships. Children can be jealous of a sibling’s relationship with their parents or workers might be jealous of a colleague’s close relationship with a supervisor,” said Xun (Irene) Huang, professor at Nan-yang Technological University in Singapore.
Yoga is for flexibility while weights is for muscle building you say? While there may be some truth to that don’t be surprised to learn that several yoga postures can help build strength and muscle as well as any other form of exercise.
Power yoga
Power yoga,which is an intense fitness-based Vinyasa flow style of yoga, is one such kind of format that targets strength building along with flexibility. That’s because power yoga involves lifting and supporting your own body weight throughout the sequence of the flow of the workout. The dynamic nature of this style of working out requires multiple muscle groups to work together.
Here are some dynamic yoga postures that will help build core strength and muscular strength all over:
Virabhadrasana (The Warrior Pose):
Named after Veerabhadra, a fierce warrior and an incarnation of lord Shiva this posture can help build muscle mass and elasticity in your muscles. The best part is that the asana possesses a touch of gracefulness while you perform it, despite being named after a warrior pose.
Benefits: Strengthens your shoulders, arms, legs, ankles and back and stretches them out as well. It also opens up your hips, chest and lungs while improving your focus, balance and stability; energising the entire body!
Sethu Bandhasana (Bridge pose):
As the name suggest the posture resembles a bridge and is therefore named after one. Perform the pose on an empty stomach in the morning or the evening.
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Yoga is for flexibility while weights is for muscle building you say? While there may be some truth to that don’t be surprised to learn that several yoga postures can help build strength and muscle as well as any other form of exercise.
Yoga is for flexibility while weights is for muscle building you say? While there may be some truth to that don’t be surprised if you learn of yoga postures that can help build strength and muscle. Power yoga, which is an intense fitness-based Vinyasa flow style of yoga, is one such kind of workout that targets strength building along with flexibility. That’s because power yoga involves lifting and supporting your own bodyweight throughout the sequence of the flow of the workout. The dynamic nature of this style of working out requires multiple muscle groups to work together.
Power yoga, which is an intense fitness-based Vinyasa flow style of yoga, is one such kind of format that targets strength building along with flexibility. That’s because power yoga involves lifting and supporting your own bodyweight throughout the sequence of the flow of the workout. The dynamic nature of this style of working out requires multiple muscle groups to work together.
Yoga is for flexibility while weights is for muscle building you say? While there may be some truth to that don’t be surprised if you learn of yoga postures that can help build strength and muscle. Power yoga, which is an intense fitness-based Vinyasa flow style of yoga, is one such kind of workout that targets strength building along with flexibility. That’s because power yoga involves lifting and supporting your own bodyweight throughout the sequence of the flow of the workout. The dynamic nature of this style of working out requires multiple muscle groups to work together.
Here are some dynamic yoga postures that will help build core strength and muscular strength all over: Virabhadrasana (The Warrior Pose)
Virabhadrasana (The Warrior Pose) Named after Veerabhadra, a fierce warrior and an incarnation of lord Shiva this pose can help build muscle mass and elasticity in your muscles. The best part is that the asana possesses a touch of gracefulness while you perform it, despite being named after a warrior pose. Benefits: Strengthens your shoulders, arms, legs, ankles and back and stretches them out as well. It also opens up your hips, chest and lungs while improving your focus, balance and stability; energising the entire body!
Benefits:Strengthens your shoulders, arms, legs, ankles and back and stretches them out as well. It also opens up your hips, chest and lungs while improving your focus, balance and stability; energising the entire body!
Sethu Bandhasana (Bridge pose):
Sethu Bandhasana (Bridge pose) As the name suggest the posture resembles a bridge and is therefore named after one. Perform the pose on an empty stomach in the morning or the evening. Benefits: Apart from strengthening your back muscles, and stretching your chest and spine it also has a calming effect on your mind. Additionally, the pose helps people suffering from asthma, sinusitis, anxiety disorders, depression, and constipation.
As the name suggest the posture resembles a bridge and is therefore named after one. Perform the pose on an empty stomach in the morning or the evening.
Benefits:
Apart from strengthening your back muscles, and stretching your chest and spine it also has a calming effect on your mind. Additionally, the pose helps people suffering from asthma, sinusitis, anxiety disorders, depression, and constipation.
Salabhasana (Locus pose):
Also known as ‘baby backbends’ this pose effectively preps a person for a deeper backbends and strengthens the backside of the torso, legs and arms.
Benefits:
Salabhasana helps strengthen the muscles of the spine, buttocks, back of the arms, while stretching your shoulders, chest, belly and thighs. Additionally, it also helps cure fatigue flatulence, constipation, indigestion and lower-back pain, while bettering your posture.
Bakasana (Crow pose):
For a position that looks as simple as a crow perched on the branch of a tree, bakasana is quite challenging as requires daily practice to master.
Benefits: Strengthens your wrists, arms and abdominal region, while stretching your upper back and improving your coordination. Internally, this position also reduces your acidity problems, heartburn and helps your mind and body focus.
Salamba Sirsana (Headstand):
Salamba Sirsana (Headstand) Known as the ‘king’ of all postures the headstand is probably the most challenging of all. This position requires you to bear the entire weight of your body on your shoulders, which requires an insane amount of strength work from your upper body. Benefits: Apart from strengthening your arms, neck, shoulders, core, back and legs, it also helps conditions the organs in the abdominal area and your lungs. The jolt of blood to your brain also helps sufferers of insomnia and sinusitis.
Known as the ‘king’ of all postures the headstand is probably the most challenging of all. This position requires you to bear the entire weight of your body on your shoulders, which requires an insane amount of strength work from your upper body.
Benefits:
Apart from strengthening your arms, neck, shoulders, core, back and legs, it also helps conditions the organs in the abdominal area and your lungs. The jolt of blood to your brain also helps sufferers of insomnia and sinusitis.
These facts are for women in general across the planet. While some of these facts are downright outrageous, there are a few of them which reaffirm stereotypes. So the next time a woman tells you she doesn't like to talk, call her bluff by showing point number 2. These amazing facts and images have been sourced from Factslides. Be amazed.
1. Shocking
2. See, that's 7000 words for the average man. Poor us.
3. Behind every successful man, there's a woman waiting to inherit it all!
4. It would be interesting to find out how they would collect the sweat. Wrenching out a cloth maybe?
5. Hurry,Hurry Up!
6. Honestly, I imagined it to be more.
7.Hindi movies are responsible for more than half of these.
8. Not very surprising.
9. How much alimony do you think she managed?
10. Issued in public interest. Take appropriate measures next time you witness someone in similar pain.
11.Had no clue about this one.
12. Ouch. We feel for you, women.
13. Hey! How's that fair? We also like to taste.
14. No wonder they know each of the 50 shades of grey.
15. See, being tall isn't always a good thing.
16. A moment of silence for that woman's reproductive organ. 69!
17. I'm sure the percentage will be higher for men.
18. Ahem, all those who believe women don't have hearts. Shut your trap now.
19. Seriously, women. All of you are absolutely gorgeous. Be a little more self confident.
20. Try this experiment if you're next to a girl. See how many times she blinks in a minute, and then ask her to time yours.
21. Before we start laughing, I suggest you ask your grandparents how many siblings they had.
22. A poorly-fitted bra can cause shoulder, neck and back tension, as well as uncomfortable bulges around your breasts. In case you're experiencing any of these, maybe it's time to change the bra.
23. You don't need research for this. Speak to a girl about her dreams, and she'll have a bunch to tell you. Men won't remember the last time they dreamed!
24. Next time you hear a fart, check before you start judging the guy in the room.
Here are 5 different ways you can start earning yourself some Bitcoins.
1.Investing
Investing is the easiest way of accessing Bitcoins. This works in the same way as exchanges for other currencies — you go to an exchange (for “traditional” currencies you would go to a location that might do currency exchanges such as your bank; for Bitcoins you would visit a website such as Mt. Gox) and buy Bitcoins using the currency you possess.
I call this “investing” instead of exchanging because although the value of a Bitcoin fluctuates rather wildly, it is still showing an upward trend. This is partly due to the fact that more people are looking at Bitcoins as a legitimate currency, and partially because Bitcoins were designed for deflation as there are only a certain amount of Bitcoins that will ever exist. If you exchange Bitcoins now, they might be worth ten times as much in a week, month, or year from now. Then, you can exchange those Bitcoins for your traditional currency.
2.Sell Your Stuff!
A great way of earning Bitcoins is by selling some stuff you don’t need anymore on Bitcoin-friendly online markets. You could try listing an ad on Craigslist and set a condition that the buyer pay in Bitcoins. Then you can also sign up on a marketplace such as Coingig.com and sell your items there. The site works very much like eBay and gets you some Bitcoins for each successful sale.
3.Mining With Your GPU
Another way of earning Bitcoins is to mine them like the early pioneers of Bitcoin. Mining Bitcoins requires that you use a computer with a Bitcoin mining program on it. The program will then run complex calculations on your system, and reward you with a Bitcoin for each return value that meets the criteria for being considered a Bitcoin.
Since mining has occurred for quite a while now, the chances of winning big money this way is very slim — mining alone will take forever but could reward you with an entire Bitcoin, or you could mine as part of a mining pool, which shares found Bitcoins among the pool members based on how much work they’ve put into the pool.
Mining with PCs is best done with AMD graphics cards, as they are the ideal for performing the math done in Bitcoin mining. nVidia graphics cards suffer in comparison, and relying on just your CPU is unsuitable. If you put yourself on the miner’s line, choosing the best GPU for Bitcoin mining becomes a critical factor for the sheer number crunching that’s involved.
4.Mining With ASIC Cards
If you’re more serious about mining Bitcoins, there are ASIC cards that make Bitcoin mining far more efficient (in terms of electricity use), as they use less power and perform more calculations than the usual PCs. These machines aren’t very cheap though, but can be bought from various sources, including ButterflyLabs.
5.Mining On A Raspberry Pi
Lastly, if you’re more of a Bitcoin mining hobbyist rather than a first-timer or a professional, then you could buy yourself a cheap Raspberry Pi and use it for Bitcoin mining. You won’t get nearly the same performance as the specific machines mentioned above, but it’s still a fun thing to try out. And who knows — that ~$35 investment could turn into a $1,200+ Bitcoin.
Conclusion
As you can see, there are many different ways in which you can get involved in the trending virtual currency. Bitcoin is here, and it doesn’t matter if you want to make money from it or if you want to use it as an actual means of payment. After reading up on the few disadvantages to Bitcoins, there’s no reason why you shouldn’t give Bitcoin a serious consideration.
