近年來，3D 動畫的藝術表現相當受到歡迎並被公認為主流娛樂，而「原創」與「美學」更是其核心價值。為配合動畫電影新興產業的需求，以及培育本地動畫專業創作人才，自2001 年起，台灣大專校院陸續設立動畫相關科系，至今已超過50 餘個系所。然而動畫教學目標應與貼近企業用人需求，以提昇其專業能力，方能支撐動畫產業成長。有鑑於此，本研究認為了解業界3D 動畫師的外顯知識有助於學界人才培育接軌業界需求。外顯知識的描繪係經由訪談國內業界3D 動畫師的學習歷程進行構面抽取產生心智地圖，經受訪者確認後再推導共同的核心能力。研究方法包括質化訪談、編碼與發展範疇，描繪心智地圖並歸納其核心能力。研究結果顯示，電腦動畫師其專業能力必需包含三個面向，即創意設計能力、電腦技術能力與職業性向能力。創意設計能力係指美學素養、手繪技藝與創意表達等27 項能力組合；電腦技術能力則有對電腦技術的應用與整合能力等8 項能力；職業性向能力則有商業化能力與國際化的視野等16 能力。

The art and esthetics of 3D animation are so popular, it had be regarded as the main entertainment recently. Specially, the original and the esthetics are the core value of animation. In order to coordinate the flourish of animation movie industrial, the universities founded the animation relative departments, and have more than 50 departments until now. However, the most graduates' qualifies would not meet the requirements of the employers. Based on above observations, this research tried to depict the dominant knowledge of 3D animators of Taiwan. To establish their mental models and the core capabilities, which are the representation of 3D animators' dominant knowledge. The research method including interviewing the professionals of the 3D animators and sketch the tacit knowledge of their interview manuscripts, to draw the individual mental models and obtain the core capabilities. The result of our research is that the 3D animation professional capabilities include tree categories, i.e. the planning design, computer technologies and the career development dimensions. The planning design category contains the aesthetic, sketch and creative and so on 27 abilities. The computer technologies category contains the integration, application capabilities and so on 8 abilities. The career development category contains the commercialization, the global view and so on 16 capabilities.