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Hi Polycount!  

It’s been a while. So a while back I posted about being laid off from my last job as a Lead 3D Artist. I am sure I speak for many people here when I say that I really really dislike the job search.

I interviewed at many of my “Dream” jobs/studios. But unfortunately I never had a chance to get past the filtering stage in the interview process. 

Most of the jobs that I got offered either paid laughably too little (think 50% pay cut), or ended up just asking me to manage the outsourcing department.

I feel like I am a world class 3D artist now, but most of the IC (individual contributor) jobs are simply moved out of the US mostly due to outsourcing.

In a few years I’ll be 40 years old… So at this point I’ve settled on the reality that I’ll likely never get a chance to truly work onsite at my “dream studios”...

Eventually I landed on the idea that I am just going to make my own game using AI to fill in for all of the technical gaps like coding. I am 1 year into that journey, my game is on steam now and I am running public playtests and hoping to launch the demo in a few months.

I say all this here because I am actively reading Polycount everyday, and realized I almost never post. So here is my update. I am still making art, it’s just not the kind of workflow I had hoped to be using. I landed here because I simply couldn't land the kind of job I wanted that would actually pay my US living costs. Also, it was a bit embarrassing going through so many interviews where it felt like nobody cared and I was just a number in the process. 

I don’t know what’s going on with the game industry, but 2014 felt like a magical time to me as I started my first 3D art job. Now it’s just quite disappointing seeing layoff after layoff from many game studios.

Here is a screenshot of my game:

Here is the link to my steam page for those interested:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4003040/Dino_Card_Hunt/

Hi everyone. I found this Greentooth easter egg in Splinter Cell Blacklist about 9 years ago. It’s hidden in a painting in the Benghazi mission and only appears using thermal vision. I never saw this mentioned in any official Greentooth lists, so I’m sharing it here.

Video link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsSX21weeJk