Hey all! I'm a first year student in the UK and I'm currently studying games art. I'm interested in hardsurface modelling, texturing, and sculpting so I can see myself getting into props/environment art. I have until next year to decide whether I go down the games or VFX pathway but I'm honestly having trouble choosing…
I never thought of it like that. I'm not sure which path you started with but is the transition from games to vfx easier or the opposite? I feel like the restrictions of games makes prop art a lot harder than vfx so choosing games is a better place to start.
I think there are difficulties in each path and neither of them is necessarily more difficult than the other. Once I got a job in animation, I had game studios here and there reaching out to me. The thing is, if you're making game art, you gotta know how to make a sub-d model and then bake those details down to a lower…
Don't let your school convince you that the majority of your skills wont be transferable between industries. In my portfolio, I made both game res and sub-d art. If you have a couple pieces of each, there's not really a reason why you couldn't switch back and forth; plenty of artists do that. Sometimes its easier to break…