I don't even agree with the rockstar thing all that much. It's kindof the way it is now because so many studios got shut down, and what used to be the junior positions are now outsourced to other countries. But there's still room for junior character artists out there. If nothing else, then in those very same outsourcing…
It is hard to think modular, if you have ever had to make tiling textures or worked on old 8bit games, than I think it might come a bit more naturally for those people. I've been doing it for a while with mostly organic tunnels and organic outdoor enviroments. Its nice to work this way in max and use XRefs. You can then…