19, currently a student, and like Oniram learning NOTHING, polycount has taught me more >.<. Finishing school in 5 months and currently looking for a job as an environment artist! Check out my site :D
I think i started doing contract work around 17 or 18, got first full time job at 19. Now I'm 26. I don't think there's a grim reaper or whatever, i think most people who have been doing this for awhile simply don't post on polycount ;)
21. had an internship with a crap company when i was 19. nothing came of it. got my first freelance gig about a year ago doing realtime architectural rendering in UDK. got an internship this year with an outsourcing company. still a student, graduating in september with a game-art degree that im paying waaaay too much for…
Technically I guess I got in at 19 [got really lucky] and then got out a couple years later to continue my schooling. That job never felt like a real industry job to me though so I don't really count it. It was for a government contractor doing serious games stuff and whatever other work they felt like throwing at me. I'm…
25 right now, got my first in house gig about 3 months ago. Like many others i've done 3D since i was about 13-14, lots of mods for carmageddon, quake3, halflife2, elder scrolls and other things. I never really took it seriously as a job prospect till i was 19 or so working fast food and wanting something better. I didn't…