One thing to remember is that whatever you are studying now is not what you have to focus on for the rest of your chosen career path, I personally went to school to study prop and environment art for film, ended up with technical environment art for games when I chose to drop out to build a portfolio. Fast forward close to…
Bit of a late reply, but if you shoot for smaller studios you can do all the art jobs as a generalist. There are a ton of tiny studios with less than 5 artists that need to do a bit of everything. I will get bored doing just characters or just environments or just UI. You will not reach the quality of a triple A…