Computer animation technology – is the graphic process of animated figures, where you animate a real figure, only it is created graphically using CGI (Computer-generated imagery) and at the end of the process, the result is close to a real figure that looks and acts like a real one. Animation also includes the motion of the figure. All that creates a living breathing animated figure, that animates a real figure, resemble a real person, creature, animal, etc…

The nice fact of all that is that you can even create creatures or any type of character that we have never seen before, you can invent a whole race of aliens, and they will look as real as they can, using the computer animation technology we have today, which is growing and improving from day today. We can see those effects when we

go to the movies, or when we play computer games (as they become more realistic), on advertisements, almost everywhere.

There are builders who use computer animation technology to simulate a new house, so the buyers will be able to see every little detail about the house from the exteriors to the internal design and decoration. Instead of visualizing things in our mind, trying to figure out how will the house come out at the end when it will be finished, we can just see it as if it is already have been built. We can see every detail as if we were walking through it, visiting it physically. The accuracy and realism of computer animation and CGI technology enable us to see an accurate replica of what we would expect a built house to be.

After we gave a bit of background on what is computer animation technology, and how it effect
s and assists us in our daily life, we can check what are our options in taking a part of such technology. There are options to study the technology, there are degrees you can achieve while studying it. It is a profession like any other, and you can understand from my opening, that there are so many possibilities of using it and it is still evolving, changing and advancing as the technology improves.

Here are some schools I found, just a couple of examples, but I am sure you can find one that suits you best:

1. Bachelor’s in Game and Simulation Programming – at DeVry University

2. Computer Gaming and Animation Technology – at Anglia Ruskin University

3. 3D Animation Program – at The Art Institute Of Pittsburgh

4. Bachelor – Computer Animation – at International Academy of Design & Technology

Who doesn’t like to play games?

Since we where little we were playing games, and in this advanced age, the games just passed to the computer, well not completely true, there are still regular games that you can play as you used to, using your hands, moving game pieces, but computer games, well… they are something else.

You can find computer games in many different types, and on different subjects. Computer games on science, science fiction, space flying to space or fight using space ships, detective plots trying to solve unsolved crimes of sort, adventures, races, race simulations where you drive almost any type of vehicle dirt bikes, motorcycles, race cars or even top sport cars that we have today without paying the price they cost , fighting games either in the ring or on martial arts sort of fighting games, flight simulators that enable you to fly a combat jet, helicopter or just simulate that you are the pilot of a commercial airline airplane and your flying passenger around the world. There are computer games that simulate life which enables you to play a person in a family that conduct their day to day life of going to work coming home to eat dinner etc… and just learn how to date women/men or how to live with roommates.

Those kind of games enable us to simulate life, who wouldn’t want to be a fighter pilot and fly assignments, bomb cities, do dog fighting with other enemy fighter planes and all that from the comfort of your home, without getting hurt. Computer games enable that, you can just sit back, turn on your computer, run your favorite game, and enter a character of your choice, and just play, enjoy it and have fun.

Kids have computer games that enable them to study, learn languages, study mathematics or increase their knowledge in different areas, and all that while playing computer games, enjoying the popup characters that talk to them from the computer, teaching them and all that while they are having fun. Who wouldn’t want to learn new things while having fun? we probably will learn much better while we enjoy ourselves.

Computer games are being sold at stores, and you just buy them, install them on your computer and you’re in business, the fun can begin. We can also find free computer games online, there are many websites that enable us to play online games using a web browser. Those websites have so many online games, that you most likely won’t have a problem finding a computer game that you like, and with the quality and the higher speed of the internet today, we can enjoy online games that work smoothly, load faster and let us enjoy the fun and games from anywhere, when all you need is just an internet connection, and you don’t need to install anything to be able to play.