Blogging has been the cool thing to do for .. i dunno how long now - a good five six years I guess and I always wondered what so great about other people's personal thoughts that other people cared so much about. Therefore the sheer existance of "popular" bloggers baffles my mind. But anyway, i decided to hop on the blogging bandwagon and just .. talk about shit i guess. See how fun this gets.
Life sucks right now. Just graduated from art school 3 weeks ago today and been job hunting for about a week now. And I don't mean part-time Chapters and Indigo books crap, I mean REAL job. As an artist - if that can be considered a real job by the wrinklier folk. The career services people at the school say "yeah, March is a great time to graduate, companies are hiring all around." But going onto various local company websites, there doesn't seem to be any 3D game artist positions available which is what my peers and I have graduated specializing in.
All those people who told me "environment art is where its at, where all the jobs are, so you suck for graduating as a character artist." Yeah well you know what, I've found and applied to 3 character artist positions and one company even went sofar as to say they wanted their 3D artist to be well-versed in both organic and prop modeling. Environment positions, I've found about 2.
Outside of the 3D art thing, I've also applied to companies as a 2D artist for concept art, textures, digital painting, and UI artist. To date, I've only received acknowledgement from Rockstar and Radical. If I don't hear from Radical in 4 days, I am to consider myself rejected. And from Rockstar, end of next week. Sofar I've applied to a total of 10 separate companies and 15 different positions. And only 3 companies have gotten back to me. 1 of which rejected me (not enough experience designing user interfaces) and the other two I mentioned up top.
Oh yeah, one good thing I should mention the the senior project manager over at Blue Castle. I think my work's managed to make an impression on him cause the only reason I applied for the UI position with them was cause they called me at his suggestion and asked that based on my background, I apply for the position. I applied, but HR didn't think i was fit enough for the job. Anyway i contacted mr. senior project manager with the results of my application and he was still supportive of me so ... its always good to have someone in the industry with some real influence on your side. Lets just hope something comes out of it.
With exception to the days I work at Chapters, I've been literally sitting in front of my computer, refreshing my email list every half hour or so, hoping something's come in. Either that or googling up local companies, checking job boards, refreshing my email again, write more cover letters and resumes and applying some more only to not hear back from companies. Oh, and checking the traffic from my portfolio website - which is pretty good, surprisingly. But still, nothings coming out of it. It's a pathetic life and I'm not sure I've ever felt much lower. But things are gonna get better. It's not just something I'm trying to convince myself of. I feel it .. cheesy i know, but its the best way I can describe it I guess.
I'm currently in the process of working something out with an internet US based company - not sure what they're called - but they need some texture artists to do tiling textures for them. So I accepted, its just a freelance thing, some extra pocket money, why not. Catch is they want me to do rotated tiling textures. Sounds simple enough, but holy shit is it ever hard to make them tile. Finally the guy sent me a template which worked wonders. Made one in minutes where i spent 4 hours yesterday trying to figure it out. Hopefully they like me enough to take me on for the one month contract.
AND i just checked my email and they've accepted me! That's good, which means I'll have money for the next little while. But still, i need a career job. Freelance crap, that's why i left graphic design in the first place. I can't imagine another job stint of nothing but freelance jobs. EEUUGHHGH.
That's about it for now. Nothing much else to update on. Wow, I'm surprised at how much I wrote. Man, if I started this blogging thing when I first started at the Art Institute, i can just imagine the pages and pages of blogs, haahaha. I'm starting to wish I did. I can look back at that school and say I been through alot. Highs and lows. Met new friends, great gamer nights, drinking parties, pasta nights at Boston Pizza. ... I'm reminiscing ... I better stop this now before the post gets any longer.
WOOT, first blog completed! Now I'm gonna go buy smokes ...
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