When the hell did you know?
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Alright, not sure if this has ever been posted before, but why not.
When did you know that you wanted to work in games? Did it just happen? Transition from another field? God told you to?
When did you know that you wanted to work in games? Did it just happen? Transition from another field? God told you to?
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[edit] Plus I love games of course! :P
But once I played the Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time, I knew I wanted nothing more than to craft beautiful worlds for people to lose themselves in.
Yeah I was a weird child.But I'm not the resuming of that child.My parents were worried about me because they tought I could not become a doctor or lawyer or a governor type of people in the future.I had to went to psyhologist for just I'm doing those so called dangerous stuff.Misleaded,abused and forced to become to another personality.Yey I was a child,how do I knew that.But in my life I was always knew there's something wrong and uninteresting.Their plan was blew very badly when things go more seriously when I grew up.I were still loving the create something..
And then I tried to change my life which was going to the compeletely different route then I wanted.It was too late to change most of things.My attempt to change my life was caused to lose my years and years and also the reaction from the society was very abrasive.Absolute bottom point I had so far.I was searched a way to get out that mood.Then I thought It's posibble to make my child dreams real,despite everyone told me opposite.So I were super stoked to learn this shit whatever it costs.Searched for the data about how to make games.Hopefully I got enough vision to avoid those 'game-maker' thingies.Actually I wanted to make 'art' as I unintentionally made them before.And also there was a language barrier that I had to pass through.
Then I were get into the game-art.But that was happened at the time when I jaded from everything in the life.That made me love the game-art even more and I felt like I'm in the right track.I am a laid-back person with very low self-esteem.I'm really picky when It comes to the inspiration.My ultimate problem is that I can't manage myself to actually finish something.
I'm sad about my lost potential.I'm sure I have never seen a child like him.I realized my organic connection between him was mostly interrupted.Wished to know what would be happens If everything has gone to its 'normal' route.
Sry for the long post but I have to write this in order to explain my reasons to get into the game-art.I was always tend to create something suitable to the game creation.Even before I met the computer!Not other cg stuff,only games!
For me game-art IS the best thing ever I can do.If I don't do that I might go nuts!
I have memories of wanting to be a cop or something generic like that from when I was a small kid. I've been drawing since as far back as I can remember (like probably all of you). Though I just kind of knew I wanted to work in games, like sort of by default. I didn't even play many games growing up, as we were very poor (I did play Sonic on Genesis and Saturn a few times though!), so games themselves weren't a large enough influence until later on in my teenage years.
I didn't do any art in high school, but went on to study game art (not design unfortunately) and blah blah blah, now I work in games.
Crazy.
Fell in love with id games, played all of them. The original Quake is what got me interested in the game industry; I messed around with an editor called Qoole, then led me to QRadient... the rest is history
When I was in kindergarten I wanted to make Nintendo games. For me it wasn't an issue of figuring out what I wanted to do, it was fighting the constant belief that it wasn't something I could do, and losing sight of the dream.
pretty much same story here.
I loved games when I was younger, I used my allowance to buy level design books for duke nukem 3d and Doom when I was 12/13 yrs old. I worked on quake mods, and half-life mods, etc. Started learning to model when I was a freshman in high school, even saved up money from a summer job to take community college classes and learn more about modeling. It was great fun but never, not once, did it occur to me that I could this for a living.
I was out of high school for like 2 years and I thought I wanted to work in web design, 3d movies, or architecture or something. I took some classes at different schools but wasn't really enjoying it or going anywhere.
I was playing Halo with my Uncle and we started talking about gametypes and the design of the game. After bitching a bunch about little things I didn't like and how I would do it differently, he asked me "Why don't you do this...you know, for a living?"
The rest, as they say, is history.
My interest for creating artwork for games came from when I got my hands on Deluxe Paint on the Amiga.
In early high school I started to get very much into traditional art and got my first pc and spent all of my time in photoshop. Being a gamer, naturally, I thought game art would be an ideal route but not one I could achieve (school being too expensive, people naysaying it, not knowing of polycount or where to get started with 3d) so I was going to be a graphic designer or go for an art degree; something that I already had some skills in. Through a string of coincidences I ended up going to game art school and I put everything I had into learning/improving and still do.
11-12 years ago, I was like I'd love to make my own skin/texture for this game then It was I would love to make my own character for this game, light bulb! Found PC downloadable models to add into Quake 3, then clicked forums and stuck here ever since.
PC is a black & green hole, beware the void!
I've never been the same since... lol
Inicidentally, FFVI was the game that turned me into a gamer. I suppose I have Square to thank for a lot of how my life has turned out...
who knows, maybe these years will finally be worth it one day.
Took a few years though till I realized I could actually make a living out of it
I aimed for the movie industry then, after seeing Toy Story, Titanic, etc. I just came back to games when I needed another job after my first film gig.
Made a very clunky megaman X and Samus out of deformed primitives, textured with flat color phong or procedural materials.
While in my local college's animation program someone showed me you could make models for Q2 using lightwave via some program that was being sold for $20, since LW at that point didn't have UV mapping capability. Found polycount around that time also. Didn't actually get that program, but tried learning 3ds max, which had all the tools for games then. Hated it. R2.5 and R3 sucked for usability, especially to a 16yr old who came from a lightwave and autocad background.
Also around this time, and in the earlier years, I got into learning some programming skills, since the one-man-team or multiple jacks of all trades was the order of day for PC games as I understood it. Found I was decent with the code too..
So, the only field I know of that marries artistic sense with engineering is the game industry.
2 years down the line here I am in a game studio telling you how I got here
made me interested in 2d and 3D.My interest in art raised a lot after that and hopefully my interest in art will never stop.
So I started looking up what kinds of jobs exist in CG related industries (with focus on the Game industry) . I saw 3D animator and looked up what stuff involves being that.. I then thought: "moaaar". So, i started studying 3D Arts. And now here we are
Randomly stumbled onto a Half-Life 2 mod called Hull-Breach and joined the team 'cause Kai's concept art was awesome.
Suddenly realised there were actual people out there with actual jobs making games - which is way cooler than this pre-rendered nonsense - and that with some hard work I could be one of them.
Now I am.
Nice ego mate!
I'm more in "serious" game industry now though.
Then I though that it would be wiser to chose a "standard" job, but I've end up as 3d artist in pre-render production so I just made a step into video game O.o.
It does?
not really