watching anime is my favorite thing to do and i love drawing!! i would really love it if someone would help me on this. thanks guys!!
2007-03-13 02:22:42 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Comics & Animation
No, you don't have to be Japanese to be an animator of Japanese animation. Although, it's very uncommon and unlikely for people who are't to get into the field.
There are a few reasons for this, one being Japan has been said to have the most artistic people, as they study art alot in school, so there is a large number of people to compete with who can draw their style, and secondly, the hoops companies have to go through to hire foreign people, makes them more unlikely to because they can always hire a native and don't have to do anything extra.
There are barriors that makes hiring foreign animators something they don't look at much and this would be 1. Cultural and language barrior: Unless you speak good Japanese and understand the culture alot, it makes it tough to work there as there would be a communications barrior.
2. Visa: You need a visa to live in Japan. They don't give out visas for people going into animation unless you were directly sponsored by a company. So it's hard to get a working visa for animation as it's stated in their constitution that animation isn't a nessissary so they don't generally give out visa's for that.
3. Japan has been oursorcing it's anime lately to countries like Korea and China. They do it for cheaper. So many of the positions are dissapearing since they are ousorcing to cheaper places.
So, it's not impossible, but it's very unlikely as I researched this before when I had interest and only came across one American who worked in the Japanese animation industry.
But if it's what you really want to do, the best suggestion he had was to establish yourself in the U.S first as an animatior and study the language. If you can show them you are a good animator and can speak the language, they may hire you.
Although, keep this in mind when deciding if it's what you want to work towards: The Japanese animation industry is known to not pay well. Many economical newspapers and reports have written about this and how it's not good that animators are paid very little for the long hours the have to put in for their work. It was written they get paid below the average Japanese salary although they work probably twice the hours.
If that dosen't bother you~ good luck, hard work usually pays off.
2007-03-13 06:54:39 · answer #1 · answered by N K 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course, you have to be Japanese to be a Japanese animator, or else you wouldn't be a Japanese animator.
Of course, you have to be Korean to be a Korean animator working for a Japanese studio who is working on an animation aimed primary for Japanese consumption.
And so on.
So... what you need is to be employed by Japanese studio, the Sakura Taisen / Sakura Wars movie I think it employed animation studios from many different countries.
2007-03-13 19:02:01 · answer #2 · answered by E A C 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course you don't need to be Japanese to be a animator. However, if you're planning to be an animator in Japan, then you'll need to learn Japanese. That, and you'd need to be pretty good. The Japanese are pretty selective when it comes to that.
2007-03-13 02:31:58 · answer #3 · answered by mimsy_paper 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well if you werent japanese, than you wouldnt be a japanese animator. You'd be an animator ^.^ But its not like you cant draw anime if you're not japanese!
2007-03-13 04:03:33 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no you dont have to be japanes or even asian to become a japanese animator
you should go to school for art and then try to get a job with an animation studio like bandai or geneon
2007-03-13 02:25:37 · answer #5 · answered by links305 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To be a JAPANESE animator? Yes. To work as an animator in Japan? No - however they are incredibly selective in who they hire. More foreigners are frowned upon, and have outlived their welcome after 6 months.
2007-03-13 02:26:13 · answer #6 · answered by MBE 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
of course not! have you watched nemo? one of the animators there is a filipino. if you look closely at the tank, the little house that nemo sleeps in is a "bahay kubo" and the little mountain is refered to as mount mayon, both are in the philippines.
2007-03-13 02:42:12 · answer #7 · answered by annaqtjoey 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no there are books in your local library that teach you how to draw animie and other things i have done it my self its a little tough at first to follow but once you get the hang of it it is very easy
2007-03-13 04:42:05 · answer #8 · answered by busterbbusterp 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no I think its just a style, I assume you mean Anime
2007-03-13 02:24:59 · answer #9 · answered by Samantha 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no..i guess..just pick the language and culture
2007-03-13 02:26:16 · answer #10 · answered by s g 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋