contacts for sure its all about who you know. oh and also, make your ego so damn huge peoples natural reaction is "wow! with a huge ego like that they gotta be good, hire them quick!"
Subterfuge, confusion and delay tactics are your friends here.
Not knowing much english helps, just enough to almost get a point across and leave them wondering.
Acting like an artist can work for or against you, so you'll need a ponytail or mod haircut to back you up.
Have borrowed art on hand; any of your actual artwork (if applicable) is always 'a technique, journey unknown' or 'it is, simple work of tattoo for italian rubber'.
Just show up and act like you work there. Boss people around, walk like your always too busy to talk, and show up for all the meetings. I'm sure they will add you to the payroll eventually.
You can be good at something close to it. Tech Art (rigger, tools, shaders, scripts, etc), FX, Level Design, UI. . . plenty of jobs for those folks. The problem is that you still need to be good at SOMETHING.
you need a 'gimmick' like some kind of speech impediment or a blanket that looks a bit stained that you carry around with you at all times and cry if someone even looks at it.
It's funnier than the WHY TRY thread, and more effective than going into all of the BAWWW ART IS HARD HOW DO I GET A JOB threads and being a dick one by one. :poly124:
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In before lock!
and by sleep I mean sex.
AAAAAAAAAADDDDDDDDDAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM come look at this thread!
okay now clearly you are not paying attention. Stay on topic. Polycount IS NOT YOUR BLOG.
Oh, I think this is it
Well adding to the piles of shitty thread isn't going to help anything :P
this entire field is based on timing
Right place right time right person telling you and right attitude.
but friends/networking I can NEVER STRESS THIS PART ENOUGH , is how ive always survived in this field.
So time to stop being a internet troll/hermit and be friendly with some people.
I think.
http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?t=70177
The blood of millions will be on your hands but their hiring standards aren't as high as blizzard's. Reach for the stars!
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35YivWEs3zw[/ame]
Not knowing much english helps, just enough to almost get a point across and leave them wondering.
Acting like an artist can work for or against you, so you'll need a ponytail or mod haircut to back you up.
Have borrowed art on hand; any of your actual artwork (if applicable) is always 'a technique, journey unknown' or 'it is, simple work of tattoo for italian rubber'.
For a modest sum, I can relay many more tips.
Sarcasm is not your best trait. Bored?
Anyway. The answer is, get a recruiter really hammered.
Perhaps even grow a huge moustache.
It's funnier than the WHY TRY thread, and more effective than going into all of the BAWWW ART IS HARD HOW DO I GET A JOB threads and being a dick one by one. :poly124:
Because CGTalk doesn't quite have enough of this kind of thing.