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- In <3humfn$3fn@news.tamu.edu> ser2511@tam2000.tamu.edu (Sergio Eduardo
- Rosas) writes:
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- >
- >Hey all you pro's.
- >I have Lived and Breathed Lightwave for two years.
- >And although I've been making flying logos "professionally"(for money)
- >for 1 year, I don't know too much about this Business.
- >Seeing that i am about to graduate from college(Environmental Design),
- >I will soon have to make a desicion:
- > a) continue the logo biz
- > b) get an animation job
- > c) go to grad school
- >The money from the logos is all-right, but I
- >long for something a little more heavy on the creativity.
- >(video games, music videos, special effects animation)
- > The local animation guru (Thuy Trin, Head of computer
- >animation Texas A&M Visualization Graduate Program).
- >Has told me I should apply to the A&M Grad school,
- >or 0Ohio State grad school. She also
- >told me I have as good a "reel" as some of her grad students,
- >and that I should try to get an Internship in a big animation
- >house. (She also advised me to avoid the game companies)
- >This way,she says, I might be able to skip grad school, or
- >at least take a break from school and get a taste of real life.
- > My question is how do I get in contact with companies, that
- >might take an "intern" ? And use Light Wave (or are Amiga-Tolerant)
- >Anybody out there keeping an eye out for some new talent?
- >Has anyone else on here been in the same predicament before?
- >
- >Any Advice is greatly appreciated.
- >Sergio Rosas
- >
- >
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- Perhaps the best way to find a job as CGI artist in an F/X house,
- (assuming that what you're looking for) is to submit your reel to the
- one's that you're intrested in working for. Graduate school will *not*
- help you to get a job in the field. Your money would be better spent in
- equipment to get your reel up to par with the other people out there who
- are also competing for the same jobs.
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- We just recently hierd a guy by the name of Glen Miller from Texas A&M.
- He submitted a demo reel which was terrible, but about 9 months later
- submitted another one that was great, so we hierd him.
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- Staying away from game companies is not always a good idea, but one
- could get pigieon holed by doing just game work. I'd get such a job if
- it paid the bills and allowed me to buy better equipment to make a great
- reel to help get the kind of job that I really wanted.
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- Hope this helps.
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- GT
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