My first industry job!

buddikaman

Got hired today at BioWare-Austin as an Environment Artist to work on the upcoming Star Wars MMO. Seems like a great studio from my tour through. Im pretty excited. I always wanted to work on a MMO.

Scott Petty
Environment Artist
www.Buddikaman.com

Mongrelman

Grats man

ImSlightlyBored

very nice man
congrats

Farfarer

Sweet first studio job, dude :P

Congrats!

pliang

Good on you mate.

Xenobond

Cool beans bk! Welcome to the EA. X_X

j/k

Rob Galanakis

Yes, yes, welcome, precious!

I always wanted to work on a MMO.

That will change, real fast :P
You'll have a great time and learn lots... you have some really great people working above and alongside you. When do you start?

bounchfx

bad ass first job! grats!

buddikaman

Thanks all. I start monday. As for not enjoying working on MMO's, ive spent the last 4 years stocking grocerys and the like. I doubt the suckage will even come close to that. I just generally enjoy making games.

Scott Petty
Environment Artist
www.Buddikaman.com

JDinges

Congrats dude.

Jesse Moody

Congrats man.

salman_fas

Congrats:)

IronHawk

nice one man! Ya did good.

Spug

Get that paper! GRATS!

Cody

Congrats dudeman.

Lee3dee

congrats

Snowfly

My first game industry job was making MMO's and I crashed out pretty quick...just over a year.

Welcome to the family nonetheless The Evil Ampire's been a pretty awesome employer so far.

Flynny

Congrats, ;D

Rob Galanakis

buddikaman wrote: »

Thanks all. I start monday. As for not enjoying working on MMO's, ive spent the last 4 years stocking grocerys and the like. I doubt the suckage will even come close to that. I just generally enjoy making games

Oh, you will love making games- I just mean, making an MMO, fraught with problems.

I won't be there next week, so congrats again and welcome!

Bronco

Congrats sir,

Brilliant first gig,good job man.

say hi to Kiko Buyo for me if he still hangs around those parts.

John

killingpeople

Congrats!

Target_Renegade

Sounds like a great project, congrats!

Quokimbo

Nice!

System

Sounds like a really cool job, congratulations

JohnnyRaptor

congrats dude, as for MMOs go, im sure ur gonna enjoy it

Tumerboy

Woot! Now make sure it does suck as bad as Galaxies!

Jeremy Lindstrom

pliang wrote: »

Good on you mate.

In the immortal words of pliang... Yay!?

Seriously though congrats.

steady

Congrats dude! How come we can't see your portfolio?! If it is under construction, what did you show to bioware to get the position!? SHOW US

Lee3dee

steady wrote: »

Congrats dude! How come we can't see your portfolio?! If it is under construction, what did you show to bioware to get the position!? SHOW US

yeah i too would like to see this portfolio

ebagg

Sounds like a great place to start your career in the gaming biz! And good to see people getting hired with the big layoffs we've been seeing!

buddikaman

The Portfolio I showed was far from polished as it was created at the last minute due to time constraints on the position. What impressed them most was my involvement in the MOD community and working on team related projects such as a custom art TF2map, along with an UT3 MOD, ect as I was told this shows I have a passion for games highly regarded in the Industry.

I have also, as demonstrated on my portfolio, everything from sci-fi, medieval, tropical, hand painted, and photo realistic as well as being fluent and self taught in a variety of game engines which displays my flexibility and ability to learn. These things are what i was told made me stand out from the other canidates.

This is what I gave them. Far from polished, but eh, I got the job!

http://www.getdropbox.com/gallery/341338/1/Scotts%20Gallery?h=620cd3

Scott Petty
Environment Artist
BioWare-Austin

Ruz

well done man.

Cody

Great portfolio, would love to play that map. Someone put it on the polycount Tf2 server. Is that still up?