hey you guys welcome back to our channel the number one place for people who love design art
and all things creative my name is Laszlo you are watching Dantier & Balogh's channel and in
this video i will talk about the most in demand creative jobs of 2021 as well as the near future
i want to give you some advice on which one should you pick and what to focus on in the ever-growing
world of the creative industries according to your specific skills and interests we will speculate on
what different professions could look like in 5 or 10 years time from now on and in the meantime
i also want to tell you a little bit about my best creative career decisions and opinions which
guided me through my studies and got me where i am today right now interested let's jump in
okay in order to really attempt to get a grasp on the creative industries as a possible career path
first and foremost you have to come to terms with its ever-growing ever-changing nature
as time goes on different job roles come and go and you have to get comfortable with this
idea that you can never really afford to stop learning and expanding your skill set new ideas
and technologies are being invented created tested and prototyped probably right now as we speak
and the people who come out as winners of this sort of game are usually the ones who are really
good at predicting what's gonna happen oftentimes what happens is different creative professions and
disciplines match together and on a oneplus one equals free principle they create something new
or the demand for something new in the market a little bit about me i have done a digital
illustration degree then i did a master's degree in creative advertising and after i finished my
studies almost accidentally somehow i became a graphic designer focusing on branding and logo
design which was yet another creative part which sort of matched my two paths of chosen studies
and interests i'm telling you all this because i think it illustrates my point perfectly that you
sometimes you have to choose on a couple different hats until you find one that fits you perfectly
obviously you might ask yourself how am i supposed to know what the next best thing is going to be
well i do have a theory for that the most valuable currency of the 21st century is not the dollar
it's not the euro the only currency that really matters is your attention i don't think it's a
coincidence that in english we say we pay our attention to something it's not free it costs
your time and what i'm getting at with all of this is what holds attention better than anything these
days great high quality digital content let's just say for argument's sake that the biggest
most sought after creative job of the 21st century is to become a creative content creator we are all
consuming tremendous amount of digital data in the form of youtube videos podcasts tv shows movies
scrolling through social media and so on and so on and so on the point is whoever gets the content
game right is guaranteed to be successful even if major changes happen to the current online scope
if youtube or instagram went bankrupt tomorrow something else would come in and replace them
because let's be honest digital content consuming has become way more than a past time it's an
unstoppable force it's a way of life even even if you or the company you want to work for is
selling something very real a physical product or service the given brand's online presence can
make or break the whole business now naturally since we are on youtube i would encourage every
single one of you to become video content creators because it is quite simply forcing you to develop
maybe not full-on skill sets but at least a basic sense of understanding of all the different job
roles that i'm about to talk to you about if you have a think to yourself what makes good content
all the little elements and bits that come together to make a piece of digital media content
extraordinary that's exactly what is creating a different range of jobs and disciplines which you
should have a think about as possible curry pets i have came up with a list of jobs and disciplines
that i believe will be staying with us for a while first of all i believe that there is always going
to be a need for photographers and videographers who create an electro footage to a high
professional level you might think photographer services are low in demand but i beg to differ
just because everyone carries a good enough camera in their pockets these days that doesn't make them
qualified most people have no idea how to properly use a camera they might know what megapixels are
but they have no clue about shutter speed iso settings what different lenses are there now if
you combine all that knowledge with emerging technologies you are even more likely to get
established drone videography is on the rise sitting with 360 degree cameras is an opening
shooting in 8k is an opening once you get into this inventive entrepreneurial mindset you will
get into the habit of seeing opportunities where most people can't now it is true to some extent
that creating two-dimensional flat imagery is not that impressive anymore but crafting new
immersive exciting experiences by using and combining all the established old-school metals
like graphic design and photography definitely is ui and ux designers are on the rise whose
job is quite simply to make sure we are getting the best content possible whenever we go online
immersive websites new exciting ways of showing content and data will always be needed but simply
because our tastes and expectations in terms of user experience changes all the time again as a
freelancer you might not see the traditional opening in this tricky moment in time of the
economy but have you thought about i don't know designing backgrounds for zoom calls for example i
didn't think so the word of user experience could be good if you are very excited about the next
best thing but if you are quite comfortable with where we are at the moment in the online scope and
have a genuine passion for social media you could establish yourself as a social media manager this
is a bit of a jack-of-all-trades kind of job in which you would do many different things involving
research visual editing and copywriting there's a lot of work to be done here trust me i manage
your business page on instagram and i kinda wish i could just outsource it because it's a lot of work
by the way within this topic i also wanna state that i think good writing skills will always be
needed as it's something that can never really be automated languages and the way we speak them are
constantly evolving and oftentimes it's not a logical predictable evolution words and phrases
come and go and things like you know an up-to-date current sense of humor or demonstrating actual
human empathy with a piece of writing automated algorithms couldn't write and predict any of that
another very handy skill that you could acquire is animation and motion graphics this is a very high
in demand skill in the world of content creation for the simple reason that is actually really hard
to do well making a logo or a title sequence move will automatically elevate any content to a higher
level and clients are well aware of that a cool thing about animation is that the basic principles
have not really changed since the 50s since the old-school disney movies and i think to this
day it's one of those crafty jobs which cannot really be tackled with a diy approach clients
cannot make convincing animations themselves they do need someone who knows what they are doing
to up your animation skills and focus on all this crazy new tech around us like the use of ar
or virtual reality combining that with a bit of 3d design brands oftentimes aren't content with still
imagery and videos anymore they want their own little virtual mascot or their instagram filter
and that's just the beginning this field will just grow and grow and grow as technology develops to
a fertile level i see 3d renders everywhere these days and not just in the obvious industries like
interior design and architecture i see a lot of 3d rendered digital illustration works as well which
makes me feel incredibly insecure about my ancient looking two-dimensional digital illustrations
and last but not least i feel like i definitely have to mention audio and sound design brands and
video creators need custom sounds and music all the time not to mention the importance of good
audio quality in the first place podcasting is on the rise voice activated virtual assistants
are basically commonplace and now apparently we have voice only social media networks as well
i have watched many youtube videos about well how to make good youtube videos and one thing
that our content creators keep mentioning is the importance of good quality audio many agree that
it's actually more important than picture quality so this is definitely an area which can only move
upwards in the future and as my last point i want to address the elephant in the room before someone
else does in the comment section yes like many others i do to feel the over-glooming shadow of
automation in the creative industries in a world where people can make their own websites without
any coding knowledge at all not to mention automated logo design software is a thing
now apparently yes i would be lying if i said that all of this wasn't a valid concern template-based
content is quite easy to pick out for now when you put it next to professionally created creative
work but who's to say that all the technology isn't gonna get better in like five or ten years
time from now on well i got two real-life examples for you which will hopefully put your minds at
ease in this area first the makers of toy story 4 from 2019 have built a set of virtual cameras
which were based on real life physical cameras because they felt like the virtual cameras which
you can use in cg animation provided footage which looked for a lack of a better word it looked too
perfect if you watch that movie there are scenes where parts of the picture is consciously out
of focus or the footage is a little bit shaky to imitate the feeling of a cameraman an actual human
being making a mistake on the set all of this is deliberately there to create a handmade effect
secondly sunny pictures spiderman into the spiderwest has relied on digital
illustrators to recreate the gritty imperfect nature of the original old-school comic books
for the movie's production design the movie's visual effects supervisor said and i quote this
computers do everything correctly and you have the right perspective and geometry all the time what's
interesting about art is all the imperfections that go hand in hand with a human creating things
both of these movies are academy award-winning movies i'll leave you with that to chew on okay
i hope this video provided some excitement and inspiration for the future of creative jobs again
my basic advice and message would be to jump head on deep way out of your comfort zone and build
something big you know make a youtube video record a podcast build a very complicated animation find
a big project that combines a couple different job roles because you will never know which one will
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