subject: Animation School To Extract The Best Filipino Talents [print this page] The intrinsic talent and ingenuity of Filipinos have been conquering the world of arts and crafts for many centuries now. Compared with other nations globally, Filipino talents embrace the industry with a great deal of originality, craftsmanship, artistry, and expertise. While creativity is not a gift that is exclusive to Pinoys, their unique and matchless impulsiveness and expression makes them incomparable among other artists worldwide.
Fortunately, the rise of the digital business in the country has boosted a wide variety of high-paying career opportunities for Filipino artists both locally and abroad. Among the areas where these people are currently excelling include:
Game development
Media
Advertising
Film and cartoon
Digital post-production
Visual and special effects
Web designing
Entertainment
Engineering
Sales
Fashion and interior designing
Medical science
As both local and international digital industries have been demonstrating strong continuous growth and insuppressible lucrative career options for skilled computer designers and game developers, animation schools in the country have been starting to burgeon for the past few years, offering diverse programs and curriculum to ensure competitiveness in the advance global animation landscape. Professionals joining in this field are expected to perform common tasks such as:
Creating storyboards and constructing models;
Depicting an animated environment that includes backgrounds, sets and figures;
Designing characters;
Crafting frames;
Working out the timing of movements and making sure things meet the script and soundtrack requirements; and
Utilizing state-of-the-art computer software, including Cinema 4D, Maya, Flash (Adobe), Softimage and others;
Despite the abounding career opportunities for new media art professionals in the country and abroad, however, world-class competitiveness in the field will always be the key to create a name and successfully set foot in the international arena. Consequently, acquiring topnotch quality education and advancement is the greatest requirement for success. As regards excellent academic training, CIIT is one of the best emerging Information and Communication Technology (ICT) academic institutions in the Philippines today that offers first-rate education in digital arts and animation courses.
Realizing the importance of producing the next generation of industry-ready graduates, CIIT collaborates with the most prominent names in the field in extracting the best of every Filipino aspirant. In fact, it has invited a couple of renowned industry practitioners such as Dan Matutina, Rob Cham, and Patrick Cabral as panelists in their most recent thesis defenses. Guided by the professional opinions and advices of these industry experts, candidates for graduation had the chance to hear valuable information that served as an encouragement for them to further improve and advance in their individual lines of expertise.
This 2012, CIIT has opened its doors to more aspirants and talented students. Only on its fourth year, the animation school and ICT institution has posted a record increase in its number of students as it generated more courses that are directly connected to the Multimedia Arts and to other various disciplines related to Information Technology. Due to the continuous rise and growth of the BPO community, CIIT is also constantly expanding and is creating new programs that would further enhance and bring out the best of the Filipinos.
However, because the industry is still expected to further flourish in the coming years, CIIT expects an increase in the demand for more proficient graphic artists, animators, and designers. It wishes to generate more seats and foster more talents that the world will potentially hail and value in the future.
