Usually those talks about what your profession is continues on to what you do, and if you have games or movie titles under your belt that's really all you need for them to understand it's a real profession, they might think you are sitting in front of a computer coding art into the game but at least most people know there…
I think your main issue is that you think about careless stuff too much. Are you a artist ? are you proud to be one ? Then push it down the throat of your friend. " Yes I am an artist" They way you're talking it's like it was a shame to be an artist, it is not. you don't need to work for disney to be an artist, creating…
I get what you're saying and I agree that people may think when you call yourself an "artist" they may not think much of it. I personally don't refer to myself as a straight-up artist, I call myself a more specific term - 3d artist, or game artist, or I just tell people I work in the game industry. That usually makes what…
We've had this recent discussion with one of my friends. It's such a complex discussion but I think we have to talk about it. I don't know about you guys, but when I say I wanna work in CG art, nobody takes my career choice seriously (not even my parents sadly). For my friends who study in engineering and science, I'm…