tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22906998.post1057163015133927158..comments2024-03-29T02:18:35.303-07:00Comments on TAG Blog: Employment and Employment DistributionSteve Huletthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05537689111433326847noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22906998.post-22295919346863887582008-08-27T16:43:00.000-07:002008-08-27T16:43:00.000-07:00Thanks for the breakdown, Steve. It confirms what ...Thanks for the breakdown, Steve. It confirms what I perceived, that the current employment boom is largely CG driven.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22906998.post-72534282544793161702008-08-27T15:56:00.000-07:002008-08-27T15:56:00.000-07:00It's actually pretty simple without a fourth graph...It's actually pretty simple without a fourth graph.<BR/><BR/>In television employment (largely pre-production work), we're talking about hand-drawn images.<BR/><BR/>In feature employment, there is pre-production (mostly hand-drawn) and production (mostly c.g.i.)<BR/><BR/>Here's some detail: <BR/><BR/>Sony Pictures Animation is mainly hand-drawn board work on Cintiqs, and a mixture of design (c.g.i.) and design (hand-drawn). Production is done by Sony Pictures Imagework and for that we have no numbers because it's non-signator (non-union).<BR/><BR/>In the above pie-chart, "Disney" is Disney Animation Studio, Toon Disney, and Disney Television Animation. Hand-drawn predominates at Toon/TVA, but not at DAS. (Obviously DAS has a lot of hand-drawn just now, due to <I>Princess and the Frog</I>.)<BR/><BR/>Almost all of DreamWorks <B>production</B> is c.g.i. (Some hand-drawn employment for interstitials on the <I>Kung Fu Panda</I> DVD.)<BR/><BR/>There's no way for us to break out c.g.i. and not-c.g.i. because we don't have the data categorized that way. But at DW, for instance, you could probably guesstimate c.g.i. as 80-85% of employment, Disney Animation Studio at 70-75% of employment, due to <I>Princess and the Frog</I>. (When the <I>Bolt</I> crew departs, the percentages will change.)<BR/><BR/>About the best we're able to do. Steven.Steve Huletthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05537689111433326847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22906998.post-79044529428488917002008-08-27T13:01:00.000-07:002008-08-27T13:01:00.000-07:00Steve, I believe that to get a true picture of the...Steve, I believe that to get a true picture of the employment situation we need one more graph. The differences between feature work and TV work are not as significant to a job seeker as the dramatic differences between the skill sets and resume requirements that distinguish hand-drawn from CG work. If that can be calculated, it would be far more useful. By the way, I would consider story boards or design work done for CG features or TV boards drawn on computer screens to be hand-drawn work. That graph would really tell us something.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com