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Re: Any Advice or Tips to get into the Game Industry
I hope you give animation a try and you find it rewarding! It's great you're exploring this stuff at such a young age because you will actually have the freedom to do with it what you wish with it and have some good times. If you decide to truly pursue animation and make some money at it, be ready for long hours of work… -
Any Advice or Tips to get into the Game Industry
Hi, I am new here and also new to animation, anyways I am at age early enough to kind of steer myself towards a field I like. Animation has for years made me curious on whats behind it. I want to be a future Character Animator in the Game Industry. So I came across to this forum if any one around here can give me tips, or… -
Re: Any Advice or Tips to get into the Game Industry
Rock solid advice so far. The Illusion of Life is great mostly because it outlines the 12 priciples of animation which you can look up online. The rest of it is a good read and explains a lot but I would say if you're put off by reading at least look up the 12 principles. 10 of which really apply to this industry. They… -
Re: Any Advice or Tips to get into the Game Industry
heh, all the animators I've met in the games industry rarely see the light of day. some good advice in this thread. My advice would be to get your portfolio massively beefed up before approaching a studio. Work on as many types of animation as you can think of, not just character stuff. The example about the non-animated… -
Re: Any Advice or Tips to get into the Game Industry
I'm with you there -- I love good animation and the bad stuff sticks out like a sore thumb -- but I would be very hesitant to go around calling people lazy without knowing the circumstances behind an asset's creation. Quality of execution depends so heavily on scheduling and resources available; if the game is huge and… -
Re: Any Advice or Tips to get into the Game Industry
I forgot to mention, be observant. Some people come by it naturally and others have to work at it, but all great animators have it. It's probably the #1 skill any good animator has above all else. You'll need to dig deeper into the motion then what people ever realize when watching, that means looking at things and… -
Re: Any Advice or Tips to get into the Game Industry
Although i am not an animator i can offer up a tiny bit of non animation related advice. Networking,networking,networking. If you have chances to go to industry events or any sort of industry related social gathering,by all means go. Shake hands,meet people and say make connections. If you are good at what you do and you… -
Re: Any Advice or Tips to get into the Game Industry
Yes, Indeed. I've actually just finished reading The Animators Survival Kit on E-book and it's fantastic, albiet very traditional - but this helps give you a great traditional grounding that you can transition into any 3d app. I've been looking at animation mentor for a while now and unfortunatley no one under the age of… -
Re: Any Advice or Tips to get into the Game Industry
THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!! but seriously heed every bit of advice these people have given you.. when I got my first assignment from school it was to make a ball bounce... we never even looked at it. (That was the only assignment besides make a short animation. - my school sucked balls) Everything on this page is gold - let me… -
Re: Any Advice or Tips to get into the Game Industry
Welcome to Polycount Games Industry Mentor has a episode specifically on animation, and another on portfolios and breaking into the industry. I've heard some good things about Animation Mentor, though they weren't from people I know personally.…
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