I was linked this by a friend today. Never been in the industry so I have nothing much to say about it but could be an interesting discussion point. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H28CDpPF1Lo&feature=youtu.be (Also I don't know how to embed youtube videos on polycount sorry)
you just need to paste the (regular)url [ame=" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H28CDpPF1Lo"]ANIMATION, GAMING studio artists WATCH OUT.-Stephen Silver - YouTube[/ame] a lot of truth to this.
Gawhd you reminded me how much i hate winter sometimes, nothing worse than not seeing the sun in any sort of capacity for like 3 months, it has a weird effect on you, guess its that whole Vitamin D stuff or something. I think threads like these and the OP's video link are great for starting discussions. For the most part…
So I have to say excellent thread and solid discussion to be having. As someone who got into the industry with this overworking mindset I made every single one of the mistakes with the common work day. It was not at all unusual for me to go in at 8 in the morning and leave around midnight. I was fortunate enough to work at…
I don't quite understand how core hours relate to overtime? To me core hours are the time where people are at the office at the same time so they can work together. i.e. you want your IT team to be around when most people are there. But even with a minimum of core hours you can have shitty planning and everyone has to do…
Ok well that clears it up. It really did seem (especially in the context of this thread) that you were saying that the 100 hours was just to impress your art director/whoever is in charge, rather than doing 100 hours of everything because of your particular situation. Misunderstanding is all.
Because you came across as saying you're going to work 100 hours at your new job to try and prove yourself. People that do that are doing damage and perpetuating abusive game studios. But man, you should leave your retail job, you won't have the stamina to last a month and your work will suffer.
The Scotty strategy. Captain comes in and says he needs the warp drive up and running ASAP. It will take 3 hours. You say it will take 6. He panics and says you have 4, make them count. Now you spend 3 hours getting warp drive up, and you have an hour to spare to upgrade the photon torpedoes. When the Romulans decloak,…