About the employment prospects of illustrators The most developed place of illustration: The United States is a country with a very developed illustration market, and appreciating illustrations has become a habit of society. The illustration market in the United States is also very specialized, divided into many professional types, and each type has a special illustrator.
Illustrations in Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan: As we all know, Japanese commercial animation has a huge market and operation team. Animation is an important branch of illustration industry.
Before CG technology (ComputerGraphics) entered the field of illustration, hand-drawn animation had become a sunrise industry in Japan. The younger generation is increasingly inclined to use computer digital technology.
In South Korea, with the game industry climbing to the second pillar industry of the national economy in recent years, illustrations, especially digital illustrations, have sprung up everywhere, and the game characters designed with digital illustrations have also won more market space with the popularity of Korean games in China.
At the same time, Hong Kong and Taiwan illustrators are still looking for their own way of industry, although their works have obvious traces of learning from Japan.
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Illustrator is a general term: there are illustrators for the media publishing industry, children's illustrators and realistic illustrators for the advertising industry; Then there is the animation mascot designer; There is a great demand for game and film illustrators. Similar to the game industry, each film and television work will also have a lot of mirror drawing and scene design work, which undoubtedly has a great demand for illustrators in the game and film industry.
Electronic illustrator, with high creativity and strong expressive ability, can perfectly express the needs of enterprises. Hand-painted illustrator, with high hand-painted skills, can perfectly express illustration content and personal artistic feelings.
What is the future and income of animation illustrators? Thank you for inviting me!
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Animation is divided into animation and cartoon, and illustration is divided into free illustration and full-time illustration. The salary of a full-time illustrator is relatively fixed, which is generally paid by his company, while a freelance illustrator generally earns his salary by contracting manuscripts or accepting illustration outsourcing business, and generally cooperates with publishing houses, magazines or online platforms to accept his illustration outsourcing business to earn his salary.
The salary of a full-time illustrator is around 3000-6000.
The salary of freelance illustrator is unstable, according to the manuscript.
The prospect is still very good.
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