@Hazardous That is some awesome advice, as many others have stated. Hazardous gave me some advice a fair while back, which resulted in me changing my whole game plan in regards to my portfolio and as a result getting myself a job. He knows what he is talking about, and anybody here trying to land a gig in the gaming…
A: What positive keeps you in this career[...]? Love. Its all about love, baby. Being able to help tell stories. Help create worlds ripe for exploration. Most of all working in a team to get something done that we are proud of. B: What do you do to overcome the negatives? Focus on my work at hand. There were times in the…
A: What positive keeps you in this career or wanted career? Even with all the doom and gloom. I make art for a living, I work in a smaller studio and am in a position with some freedom to be creative with my art. Later I get to see the art I create go into a playable game, I get to see how the animators took my model and…
Fair enough mate, but I did say know when to stop, you dont need to go full hermit style, sitting with paper and pencil, tumbleweeds blowing past in your room. Though michaelangelo, and most of the other great artists of legend pretty much did lock themselves away from everyone and everything and became cooky pricks haha!…
I take to 3d with this mindset. I do it for fun, all my life I wanted a way to realize my visualizations, and when I found 3d, I found my medium for doing so. I get much more satisfaction from learning something new than I do from beating a game or playing a game. I'm not saying that working in 3d is always more fun than…
Strap in folks, heres my opinion bomb: The core to all of this for me if, youre gunning to be an artist is to shape your life around being exactly that. Reduce as much of the clutter as possible, and avoid all the things that can be used as an excuse to not be doing what you should be doing, which is making art. Not…