You are a freelance journalist who has been contracted to write a 300 word article on 21st century careers in multimedia design. As part of your research, you are spending two days at a southern California animation studio that not only does work for some of the world’s largest advertising agencies and media networks, but also creates and produces full-length animated films. In your article, describe the various work performed by multimedia artists, the creative experiences individual studio employees bring to their work, digital equipment they frequently use, as well as professional opportunities outside of a full-service multimedia studio they recommend for those just starting their careers in the field.

a  social news website  is an  internet  website  that features  user-posted stories. such stories are ranked based on popularity, as voted on by other users of the site or by website administrators. users typically comment online on the news posts and these comments may also be ranked in popularity. since their emergence with the birth of  web 2.0, social news sites have been used to link many types of information, including news, humor, support, and discussion. all such websites allow the users to submit content and each site differs in how the content is moderated. on the  slashdot  and  fark  websites,  administrators  decide which articles are selected for the front page. on  reddit  and  digg, the articles that get the most votes from the community of users will make it to the front page. many social news websites also feature an online comment system, where users discuss the issues raised in an article. some of these sites have also applied their voting system to the comments, so that the most popular comments are displayed first. some social news websites also have a  social networking  function, in that users can set up a user profile and follow other users' online activity on the website.