Researchers gather information to support the animation team by researching past projects, costs, and necessary tools. Stop-motion crews physically set up scenes and characters, taking individual photos to create the animation. Project managers oversee the entire project, ensuring no mistakes are made and the crew has what they need to work well together. Editors review scripts and animation to identify areas for improvement and ensure high quality and accuracy.

1. Job roles and Skills
By Thomas Phelan

2. Researcher
• Researcher is a very important job role in any animation team, these researchers will find all the
information needed for the rest of the team to get on with there roles. Researchers find out all the little
small bits of information such as previous adverts that might be similar to give us ideas and sometimes to
make sure we don’t make a really bad mistake. Researchers will normally get around and look around the
internet to find out costs of production and also the tools needed to make the operation move on
smoothly.

3. Stop-motion crew
• The stop motion animation is a very important job because this is what we need to start and finish the
entire animation. Stop motion crew will help set up the characters and will also help create the animation,
this means they will be taking the pictures, setting up the characters and environment.

4. Project manager
• The project manager is the most important job role this is because the project manager over looks the
whole project to see if there is any mistakes being made and to insure that none of the equipment is
faulty. Also they will handle all the ordering of the equipment and making sure the crew are happy and
working well with each other. This is very important with a small or big crew because if everyone is
working well together then the production will be done to the best of their ability.

5. Editor
• The editors job is to look through the script and the animation and point out key areas that could be made
better or fixed. This is a very important job because every production crew needs a editor to make either
the advert, film, TV series or animation a lot more accurate and overall a better quality. Grammar errors in
scripts can cause sentences to not make sence