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I applied to a company for a Game Artist position, and I send them my portfolio which is mainly environment and hard surface.
And now they give me an art test which is a Character??
What to do?
I told them that I will do it but I dont know how much good it will be, my experience with characters is really low.
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  • ZacD
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    ZacD ngon master
    Is it for a small studio? I would hope so, they must be looking for a generalist.

    Do you really want to work there and think you can do a decent job making a character? It might be a waste of your time if you don't think you could make something decent.
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  • Punio
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    Punio
    Bit odd, there may have been a mistake. Maybe they meant to send an Environment test but sent the wrong attachment? I would get in contact with them. Do you want to work as a Character Artist when your portfolio specialises in Environment Art.
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  • jovcem
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    jovcem polycounter lvl 11
    ZacD wrote: »
    Is it for a small studio? I would hope so, they must be looking for a generalist.

    Do you really want to work there and think you can do a decent job making a character? It might be a waste of your time if you don't think you could make something decent.

    I dont know if I should say their name, but the division where I applied is a small studio, they work on social games.
    I want to get into characters but not like this when I have only two weeks.
    Punio wrote: »
    Bit odd, there may have been a mistake. Maybe they meant to send an Environment test but sent the wrong attachment? I would get in contact with them. Do you want to work as a Character Artist when your portfolio specialises in Environment Art.

    I dont think its a mistake, I had skype interview and the interviewer(not technical person) asked me what I want to do more, characters or textures (weird question) and I said textures, so I guess they want to test me how will I do with character.
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  • Muzzoid
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    Muzzoid polycounter lvl 10
    Yep social games companies always want generalists.

    Generalists are hard to find for these companies, so they tend to cast their net wide to even people who haven't demonstrated skill in every area, in case you are able to do it.
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  • Justin Meisse
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    Justin Meisse polycounter lvl 19
    Go for it man! You'll learn how to be a full fledged character artist faster in a production environment than you would at home. That's what I did a few years back.
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  • reverendK
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    reverendK polycounter lvl 7
    best way to learn is to fail :p
    it could turn out better than you anticipate.
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  • Joopson
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    One time I applied for a company as an environment artist, and they had me doing a UI art test. Needless to say, it was an epic fail on my part, and it was a good indication I didn't actually want to work for the studio in question. They seemed really confused and disorganized.

    Not saying that is the case here, just thought I'd share my experience. Like most have said, they're probably looking for a generalist. A little odd though that they weren't explicit about it from the beginning.
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  • DireWolf
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    DireWolf
    What a surprising test Joopson. I can't even relate the 2 fields.
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  • Neox
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    Neox godlike master sticky
    i love those stories, i think my best is doing an art test for a company showing me my work as a target reference and not accepting that it was my work already
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  • ZacD
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    ZacD ngon master
    Neox wrote: »
    i love those stories, i think my best is doing an art test for a company showing me my work as a target reference and not accepting that it was my work already

    I need to hear the longer version of this story.
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  • Fomori
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    Fomori polycounter lvl 12
    Haha. That's hilarious Neox. I think big communication problems can happen when these processes aren't handled by other artists.
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  • tynew
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    tynew polycounter lvl 9
    ZacD wrote: »
    I need to hear the longer version of this story.

    Lol this please
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  • PyrZern
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    PyrZern polycounter lvl 12
    Neox, please tell the story ^^
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  • Neox
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    Neox godlike master sticky
    i think going into detail will break NDAs

    i mean i said everything there is. i was contacted by a big company if we would like to work with them on a future project, i said sure and we started negotiating. Later they asked for an art test so they know if i could deliver the quality.
    And then they gave me a bunch of reference images, all done by me, asking if i could match the quality.
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  • Torch
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    Neox wrote: »
    they gave me a bunch of reference images, all done by me, asking if i could match the quality.

    Your answer: "Yes. Yes I can..."
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  • Neox
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    Neox godlike master sticky
    Torch wrote: »
    Your answer: "Yes. Yes I can..."

    sure it was, but it didn't count, well we got a good job out of it and the test was paid, still kinda pointless :)
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