Creative Industries

When looking at my specific sector, in the UK around 723,000 people are employed within the games, software development and electronic publishing industry (the highest of the 6 sectors within the creative industries). Because of that high number, this then translates to around 75,000 businesses that have been set up within that area.

Even though there seems an abundance of jobs within the games industry, when you look at the animation industry in the UK, it's not doing too well. Take Aardman for example, they had recently considered the possibility of moving its stop-motion division abroad in order to access more money and make shows that are more affordable to produce. Their CG department even have a co-production treaty with Canada, however this means that if a series is produced then Canada has access to the full range of support and subsidies as if it was their own production.

There has been a lot of incentive for people to move abroad to find work within the animation industry, and down at DeMontfort University in Leicester they have set up a petition to try and get the animation and games industry tax breaks an incentives. The petition is HERE.

I myself would love to work abroad in the future, I want to be able to explore different places and how different countries work. At the moment, people are choosing to move abroad because of the lack of jobs whether or not people will stay if given incentives is up to them. For some it's more about the lifestyle than the actual job itself so it really depends. In animation, it seems like all the major companies are abroad, America, Canada - they are the 2 major places. For someone like me who wants to work for a major motion picture company moving abroad would seem like the best option. However, before I can do this it would be best to get a good portfolio built up in the UK as it's easier to move about in the one country rather than across the world.

I personally think that if more renowned companies had been set up in the UK, more people might have been inclined to stay and try and get a job there. It's a choice between where you want to work and where there is actual jobs.