Augmented Reality Artist Career Profile
- Career Name - AR Artist
- Category: Art & Design / Business
- Skills Required: Life skills 40% - Career skills 60%
- Basic Subjects: Art, Information Technology, Business Studies
- Required Education: College Diploma
- Species Worked With: Pets, Critters, Farm Animals, Wildlife
- Short Courses: 340 - Rewards = Points +Badges
Do you want to work as an AR Artist?
READ: This page helps you to read about the career and the info you need to decide on whether this is indeed the career you want to follow.
RESEARCH: Learn about the skills required and minimum subjects to enter this career, as well as the places where you can study further after school.
PREPARE: If you want to plan and prepare for your career, then join the OZT Community! Members have access to tools while chatting with other students and experts from around the world. Prepare to be amazed!
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12 September 2023
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What is an AR Artist?
An Augmented Reality (AR) artist makes use of computer technology to project one image on top of another.
Augmented Reality is a technology that superimposes a computer-generated image on a user’s view of the real world. It adds pictures onto what you see around you, by using things such as screens and smartphones.
AR Treasures?
One of the highest earning animated AR platforms is Pokemon GO
Market Worth?
The global augmented reality (AR) market size was estimated at USD 4.3 billion in 2019
What does an AR Artist do?
Categories:
Art & Design / Business
Focus:
The primary focus of AR art designers is to create an image by combining different design methods (including computer software), and reality (real things around us). They develop the overall layout and production design with both text and images.
Daily Tasks:
- Discuss brief with clients
- Develop a storyboard to help the idea
- Prepare concept drawings
- Selecting photos and typefaces, and developing layouts
- Presentation to clients of work done
- Create and add new work to a portfolio
- Administration and filing
Where they work:
Environment –
AR designers generally work in studios where they have access to drafting tables, computers, and the software necessary to create their designs. They may spend some time in the outdoors, studying and taking photos of the animals they need to draw or use in the designs.
Places of Employment –
Most AR designers work for established businesses, including magazines, advertising and marketing agencies, universities, zoos and more. Some graphic designers do work privately, under contract for various clients.
Average Yearly Salary:
Most AR designers can earn an annual salary of around US$80,000. This will differ from country to country, and whether the designer is employed full time or is self employed.
Promotion:
Advancement in the field typically depends on work experience. First year practitioners often begin on a part-time basis, fitting their training commitments around other work demands. Promotion to senior levels are available in all related careers. The levels of each promotion might differ from organization to organization, but generally are the following:
Intern > Junior Artist > Senior Artist > Art Director
Difficulties:
AR designers may work long hours and over weekends and holidays to finish work within tight deadlines.
Future Growth and Possibilities:
The growth of AR designers is good (around 10% per year) with a lot of new application choosing to make use of AR in their software, and even for marketing purposes. The role of AR in future gaming is extremely good, with AR games, such as Pokemon GO being the number 1 platform in the world for years.
3. Which Skills are required?
The skills required for a career as an AR Artist can be divided into two very important groups. The first is the group containing life skills, which are the core skills that are necessary or desirable for full participation in everyday life. The second group is career skills, or the specific skills required to allow a person to enter and operate effectively within a specific career. Some or maybe even all of the life skills can assist in strengthening the career skills, and they might even be the same for specific careers.
Life Skills:
- Self-awareness
- Empathy
- Critical thinking
- Creative thinking
- Decision making
- Problem Solving
- Effective communication
- Interpersonal relationship
Career Skills:
- Creativity and artistic skills
- Excellent drawing ability
- Fine eye for detail
- Strong visualization skills
- A good business sense
4. Which Subjects must I have at School?
Art will be your major or most important subject in school, whether you want to study further, or not. It will strengthen your artistic skills and techniques, and prepare you for a career as an animal cartoonist.
Information Technology will be compulsory in many Colleges and Universities.
Business Studies is not a compulsory subject for further tertiary studies, but it will definitely help you to understand and run your own business one day.
The subjects you choose at school are important as they lay the foundation for further studies at college or university. While still at school, it’s also important to learn more about the animals you will work with, as well as gain some experience.
OZT has a list of various tertiary institutions where you can study further, after school. Each of these institutions also have their own Group page on OZT where you will find the exact subjects they require of you to have passed in school. Keep these requirements in mind, and discuss it with your school, guidance counselor and parents to ensure that you are prepared!
5. What will I need to Study?
Minimum Requirements:
The minimum requirements for an AR designer job is a good College Diploma in design and animation. Earning a Bachelor’s Degree in graphic design may make it easier to land your first job, but a degree isn’t required if you’re a talented artist.
Focus:
Major –
Your tertiary studies should focus on graphic design and computer animation courses.
Short Courses –
There are a lot of good Short Courses that would add to skills. A good background in drawing is essential, so be sure to perfect your doodling and sketching skills. Focus on skills that strengthen language, communications and computer software.
Duration:
The duration of a college course could be anything between one or three years. Bachelor’s Degrees are generally 3 years. Short Courses are usually between a few weeks and a year.
Possible Career Preparation Paths:
If this is your dream career that you want to pursue, then it’s important to plan the way forward.
Why is planning important?
To ensure that you understand the requirements for your career, and that you are always prepared for the next step on the road towards your dream. A Preparation Path is like your road map to where you want to be.
Possible Paths:
Possible Combined Career Paths:
It is possible to sometimes combine two or more related careers. This normally happens when you study and practice a specific main career, but the knowledge and experience gained also help you to have a paying hobby or secondary income career.
Possible Alternative(s):
Stepping Stone Career:
Being an AR artist can also be used as a stepping stone career. A stepping stone career is one which is used to help you get to another career, normally because the other career is too difficult to reach (sometimes due to things like high fees etc).
You can begin as an intern designer after basic short courses and expert guidance (maybe working under a mentor). The money made can then be used to pay for studies towards a promotion or another career, and the experience helps in gaining knowledge. One paying to help get to the other.
Some of the possible paths:
Training and apprenticeship:
Even though it is important to study to get into some of the animal careers, most of the skills you will need will be acquired through on-the-job training. This means that you will learn how to perform some of the daily tasks by actually doing it a few times and learning the steps.
In some cases entry level positions (or junior artist positions) require training sessions even before you are allowed to actually perform your job duties. These sessions are offered by the place of employment, after you have successfully applied.
Apprenticeship is also possible where you need to learn skills from a more senior person or expert.
Join the AR Artist Group in STEP 8 to learn more and even interact with the educational institutions that will help you secure your dream career!
Average level of education for people entering the career:
6. Licenses, Certificate, Registration and Professional Associations
Certain animal careers require some form of legal certification to prove that you can indeed do the work, and work with the necessary equipment.
Although not required by law, certifications may help workers establish their credentials and enhance their skills.
Learn more about requirements by joining OZT in STEP 8.
Professional Associations:
7. Where can I study further?
All of the above information will help you understand more about the Career, including the fact that there are different paths to take to reach it. But if you are almost done with High School (Grades 11 or 12), you also need to start thinking about further studies, and WHERE you will study.
See the List of Universities, Colleges and Online Training Academies who offer courses towards animal art and design.
8. Join the OZT community
Join us as a special member and learn more about becoming an AR Artist.
Members of the Platform have special access to:
- Info on the best places where you can study (colleges, universities and online)
- Expertly designed advice to prepare you for the career, and links to places where you can gain valuable experience. For some career experience is necessary, otherwise you wont get the job!
- Top notch info on each of the different species you will work with
- Make friends around the world and share knowledge
- Compete and win points, badges, games, prizes and certificates. Be the best of the best, while you learn and prepare!
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