Recently Ive done two back to back 40 hour environment tests. The 40 hours were the maximum allowed time to be spent on the test. How you spend those 40 hours is up to you, there wasnt a due date, they didnt dictate how I used my time.
If you are going to be working in a studio enviroment, there's going to be deadlines, I don't know why a studio wouldn't want to give out a dealine for an art test, even if it was like only spend 40 hours on this, you have 3 weeks.
Most tests I've done give you an hour time limit, usually 40 hours. Theres little to impress someone with if you can simply do something fast if the quality isnt there. If you are concerned, simply shoot them an email asking.
not having done an art test before i'm curious about the 40 hours part. Do you mean they say to make it in normal work hours (8hours a day) for 5days, or do you mean 2 days of crunch, or do they simply give you free rein and you tell them how many hours it took to make at the end of the project? : )
I think the 40 hours is there to show you what they expect in a weeks worth of work hours. Spend your time wisely and do your best. Sure people might lie, but its also hard as the one giving out the test to demand something by x due date when people are working on it during their free time. If the quality isnt there, lie…
How do they know you actually just spent 40 hours doing the art test and not 42 hours if there isn't a date? It feels like a lot of people would just lie about how many hours they spent working on it and the guys being honest would suffer from it. I can understand that if people spent 200 hours working on the project it…