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Environment Artist career path advice...what happens to the older folks?
Generally wondering a career path for an Environment Artist. The usual age range, from my experience, is people in their 20s/30s. What about the older people? I don't really ever see Environment Artists in their late 40s or 50s. Is it the fact Environment Art as we know it today, is still fairly new so people just aren't… -
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I know plenty of older people in the industry who just get paid an awful lot to be good at something . They tend to be very specialised programmers or technical people since thats where experience has legitimate value. For a jobbing artist it's basically impossible to justify paying double the money for someone just cos… -
Re: Environment Artist career path advice...what happens to the older folks?
I'm an older enviro artist, loved making game enviro art in my career but moved into managerial roles over time. Both because the circumstances required it (someone has to lead, if there are no leads you just step up to try to fill the hole) and because the pay and perks from the increased responsibilities. I actually… -
Re: Environment Artist career path advice...what happens to the older folks?
I would say you could also probably go the senior artist to principal artist route and then onto assistant/environment AD pretty easily. Its mainly about showing you know how to tackle the large scale macro visuals and you can start building those skills pretty heavily when you are a senior or principal artist. Going the… -
Re: Environment Artist career path advice...what happens to the older folks?
Not really thaaat old but ive been doing this for 15 years almost. got my first job at 20 and will be 35 this year. my career path has gone: jr env artist - mid level - Sr. env artist - Lighting artist/env artists - lighting artist - lead lighting artist - env art director. bascially as I have gone up the chain I have been… -
Re: Environment Artist career path advice...what happens to the older folks?
So, if I enjoy creating assets and environment art, Im basically shit outta luck? 😅 -
Re: Environment Artist career path advice...what happens to the older folks?
Not really. Pick something you understand and enjoy. Anything else is basically setting yourself up for failure and/or disappointment -
Re: Environment Artist career path advice...what happens to the older folks?
good points. any advice on a trajectory? should I look to focus on more houdini based skills? broaden my skills in general with maybe some more VFX or tech art? -
Re: Environment Artist career path advice...what happens to the older folks?
Thanks for the input @PixelMasher as an Environment Art Director, whats your day to day like? That sounds like something Id be all about. Though I really do enjoy building worlds and creating things, not sure how much of that you're doing on a daily basis? So after Senior Env Artist, what would be another path to take to…
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