The future of the entire 3d industry is looking pretty grim with more and more senior/mid artists applying for a junior role. Seems like leaving this field is the only viable option. How many of you guys here are currently working full time? And how are you guys coping?
>>1002108A have a modicum of artistic ambition so I would never stoop low enough to work in the art industry
>>1002108I'm a neet shut-in, well I still go outside to walk and hike but other than that I'm a shut-in
>>1002108The only solution is to go indie. Find a coder partner and work together for a cool project of a genre you both enjoy
I currently am involved in traditional mediums (pencils, pens, paint) and do 3d to explore rendering styles. My goal is to work from imagination and render by hand with no reference in 2d with lots of speed and quality. I've seen some progress, and I never have to deal with tech issues. My largest issue is running out of a material and having to reorder or drive to the store
If you work for microdick ea Disney soiny you and everyone else in there should quit and make your own shit. You won't all make it but you can help each other while shitting all over the above mentioned which makes it worth it.
>>1002152Nice. I hate how people tell you everyone always works from reference.
I have a comfy full time job as a vidya animator. From my experience the standards in vidya industry are still very low (gamers are retards) but I can see a trend of burnt-out artists from the film industry coming in and raising the output quality.
>>1002194>burnt-out artists from the film industryvfx artists know jack shit about content for video games mate, as soon as they hear about optimization they give up
>>1002194tl note: standards means using the sculpt directly in the game without lods (and not with nanite)
>>1002209maybe that's why AAA slop are interactive movies instead of games nowadays
Imagine doing 3D for anything but hobby fun
>>1002209>muh optimizationdo gamelets really think offline is animating million poly decimated models lmao
this was the first year i was getting some steady freelance work from a company, but they just told me that cause of the tariffs they won't be able to use me anymore
>>1002108The future belongs to the big threeRestaurant, Retail and Warehouse :)
>>1002290I don't have to imagine. I was working there. And that's how that hobby died down.
>>1002108dunno, i have no problemsbut there is an IT bubble ready to burst, if you dont have good skills and networking its not looking brightalso just in case in started using and testing almost ever bigger AI model for texturing and img to > 3d models and i actually have great results
>>1002108Freelance motherfucker.—MC Ride
