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Special Effects Artists and Animators
Mostly untouched
AI barely touches this work so far. The BLS expects 0.3% fewer of these jobs by 2035.
- Rank
- Joint #685 of 785 jobs, by how much of the work AI does
- US jobs, 2025 to 2035
- -0.3% All jobs: +3.5%
- Median US pay
- $102,030 a year, 2025
- People doing it
- 51,900 in the US, with about 4,200 openings a year
The work, 4 activities
The job description, marked up.
Every activity in this job, the biggest first. Tap a line for the evidence.
- deleAI does this
- +AIAI helps
- stetStill yours
AI helps with this: Create visual designs or displays63%
People asked AI for help with this in about 1 in 78 conversations, and it got them there 40% of the time.
AI helps with this: Create artistic designs or performances21%
People asked AI for help with this in about 1 in 86 conversations, and it got them there 43% of the time.
Still yours: Direct organizational operations, activities, or procedures12%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
AI helps with this: Process digital or online data4%
People asked AI for help with this in about 1 in 202 conversations, and it got them there 81% of the time. In this job the work is hands-on, so AI can only assist.
2025 to 2035
Ten years from now.
For every 100 of these jobs in 2025, the BLS projects 100 in 2035. Across all US jobs, about 104.
Even shrinking, it should still see about 4,200 openings a year as people retire or move on.
BLS on AITechnology including generative AI speeds up animation and post-production work. Source ↗
Nearby
Where your skills travel.
The jobs closest to this one. None of them is much less exposed.
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deleAI does this. In US Bing Copilot conversations from January to September 2024, AI itself performed the activity, completed it and made a real difference often enough to count.
+AIAI helps. People brought the activity to AI as their own goal, and it usually got them there.
stetStill yours. It barely shows up in AI use, AI rarely finishes it, or in this job it needs hands.
Shares are weighted by how much each activity matters in the job, using O*NET. Microsoft’s own AI applicability score for this job is 0.13, higher than 45% of jobs.
Doing an activity is not doing a job. The researchers behind this data warn against reading it as job loss, and so do we. It is US data; the shape of the work travels.
Sources: Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025) · O*NET OnLine, 27-1014 · BLS Employment Projections 2025 to 2035
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