Animation skills are very useful in multiple careers. All media requires talented and creative minds with animation skills to help realise a vision/concept.
Some examples of companies in different genres of media are:
Games
Odd games
6 foot kid/Halfbrick
Serious games and simulation
Holopoint/Rheinmetall
Effects
Rising Sun Pictures
Emergen
Resin
Kojo
Animation
Monkeystack
Vishus
A bit more on certain workplaces:
Rising Sun Pictures
A company that specialises in visual effects in film. Their work includes Harry Potter, X-men, and The Hunger Games.
· Work predominantly with visual effects
· Work on extremely high profile movies
· Have won numerous awards and were nominated for an Oscar
MonkeyStack
An animation company that works mainly with advertisements, and also works on animated TV shows, games, and concept art.
· Work on both 2D and 3D animation
· Get mostly advertisement work
· Also work on animated shows and games
· Showreel
ANIFEX
Another leading animation company that focus on stop-motion animation. They do a lot of advertisement work and have a lot of well known characters from TV advertisements.
· Work mainly with stop motion animation
· Get a lot of advertisement work but also create short and feature films
· Have won numerous awards
Other Australian companies include
Halfbrick Studios
· Game Developer
· Based in Brisbane
· Created the mobile game Fruit Ninja in 2011, which had accumulated 300 million downloads by 2013
Vishus
· Animation company
· Based in Adelaide
· Created the children's television show Figaro Pho
