02-04-2013, 09:46 PM
I always was very visual as a kid, I always said that I wanted to make animations. I always loved drawing, was still drawing in high school even. But not really determined or serious, just stupid random stuff. I was always messing around in Photoshop when I was about 13-14, and I figured that I'd want to do something visual. I decided to study Multimedia Design and ended up specializing in animation. However this was mainly 3D animation, and since that time I've grown to love games. After hearing from teachers that I had huge potential as a 3D artist, I figured I'd try to make it to the games industry.
I did some research and thought (non visual) designing and programming might be fun, so I applied for another study in Game Design and Development. I didn't make the selection. All my classmates who applied did. Bummer. So I got a job at a small design studio, where I mostly modelled buildings and interiors. Not very exciting stuff, but at least the people were great. One year passes, and I still wanted to give that study a go. So I applied again, prepared well this time
and got selected.
And after half a year, we had to apply for a 2-week seminar, I did and vanished from the list of students. So I dropped in a random seminar that didn't start yet, and asked if I could do that one. It so happened to be a seminar in concept art. After 2 lessons, I was sold. I was so happy that I found my calling, that I decided to make the switch to game art. I messed around for about a year, then I found out that concept art was hard as fuck and needed a LOT of dedication. 2 years of working my ass off pass, trying to get on par with my classmates, and here I am.
Over the course of a few months, my motivation dropped, got a huge artblock and now I'm trying to fix that here.
I did some research and thought (non visual) designing and programming might be fun, so I applied for another study in Game Design and Development. I didn't make the selection. All my classmates who applied did. Bummer. So I got a job at a small design studio, where I mostly modelled buildings and interiors. Not very exciting stuff, but at least the people were great. One year passes, and I still wanted to give that study a go. So I applied again, prepared well this time
and got selected.
And after half a year, we had to apply for a 2-week seminar, I did and vanished from the list of students. So I dropped in a random seminar that didn't start yet, and asked if I could do that one. It so happened to be a seminar in concept art. After 2 lessons, I was sold. I was so happy that I found my calling, that I decided to make the switch to game art. I messed around for about a year, then I found out that concept art was hard as fuck and needed a LOT of dedication. 2 years of working my ass off pass, trying to get on par with my classmates, and here I am.
Over the course of a few months, my motivation dropped, got a huge artblock and now I'm trying to fix that here.