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I think we all are dying for you to make one redaction or a diary on "how i got my dream-work and what i am doing"
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yippie de hippie... Wauw... Wauw... Wauw... :bgreen: :bgreen: :bgreen:
Congratulations with your new job...
Mike Milne from Framestore CFC also seems like a great guy... he did some talking on the 3D Festival in Copenhagen... so if you bump into him just give him some regards and say thanx for his talk on the 3D festival...
this deserves some
... cheers... regards
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Well work hard, stay in school, dont do drugs, drink lots, smoke more, kill yourself with long hours in the lab, then send your showreel out in blind hope, be VERY suprised when a company shows interest in you, be even MORE surprised when they call you back for a 2nd interview, hit the floor when they offer you a job, panic about the fact you have 4 days to find a pad in london and lose all interest in your MScI think we all are dying for you to make one redaction or a diary on "how i got my dream-work and what i am doing"
that's pretty much it! lol I mean i didnt do anything special I was just the right person in the right place at the right time. Seriously! I can post my showreel up if you want but as I said it's nothing special!Alan
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As far as I can see (from interviews with industry pros), degrees become more and more important now, as there is a such a huge pool of talent waiting for jobs.
Taking all this into account, the shops can now allow themselves to be picky about the artists they want to employ.
Hmmm...even if I would, I couldn't attend any kind of animation school/university (unless I could afford to visit some private school like Gnomon, which is obviously not an option).
Yeah, yeah...in my past life, I have been a very bad boy...
Come to think of it, I believe it's time to go out to some Biergarten and have some liquid refreshments!
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The tenor of what he said was, that from his point of view, degrees are a MUST, and that even most artists WITH a degree are just not good enough.
To me it seems that they are looking for young, fresh graduates with 10+ years of industry experience who have mastered every existing major 3d package and like to work long hours for minimum wages.
Ok, maybe I'm a bit too harsh and it's not that bad, yet it's bad enough.
Well...
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I'm looking for full time work(not 3d, just NORMAL work) That want juniors(18 or younger) with 5 years experience and who are managers.
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They are looking for experience but they also realise that people need jobs to get experience and that's where the degree helps. It proves that you are hard working and can maintain a level of discipline over an extended period of time.
Alan
Ps. Plus you get to drink yourself stupid on many occasions and have loads of fun.....
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It's nothing special? So wtf did u use to get the job at Framestore?Pure_Morning wrote: I may post my reel sometime, but it's nothing special
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It was my background in other stuff that really sealed it for me. Well that's what they told me It's not completley about your reel.....Alan
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What's so funny about it (as far as I am concerned) is that I used to write a lot of 6502/6502C assembler/machine code back in the early 80s (from that time I now Tom Hudson, the original mind behind the 3DS Max), but if it comes to scripting these days, I'm scared to death!
I still have a lot of the program listings (friggin needle printer!), but if I look at them today, I'm always pretty close to a heart attack, so I avoid that if I can!
Anyway: GOOD LUCK TO YOU !!!!!
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but stay here and inspire some newbies (e.g. me) so one day i can create something as hobbyist that is nice to look at
congratulations on the job and all
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