well, and there are places with just no grass at all.
hehe
But I actually cared to put certain sentence…Is a bit unnecesary, but I’ll quote myself… 
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"That is in my experience, at least. Each person writes a new story with his/her life. That is a true fact. "
Oh, and excuse my grammar, I have low english language skills.I ensure you all I handle quite better my own language
The fact is that what I lived makes me have not a single doubt on what I had just said…
And…no…I am not of the type of people that having not worked in other jobs, just simply can’t know how are others…I have also worked as PC tech support, installing OSes and fixing stuff…Also as a highschool drawing teacher… As a web designer (the times only Adobe Ps and html were used…(but is something been asked often even in games jobs…heck, I even have to edit sound)) … oil painter(yup, no contract, just paying some bills)… or lived during some months paying bills only with certain humor hand drawn strip. Besides, I know the feeling of studying 10 hours a day non stop to get a vacant in the gov …during years. To play it all to one card in just half of an hour.
Basically, I do get a distance when I judge my situation, and then compare. I know when I’ve been better, I know I have been worse, too. I know could be really worse, heh. But that is not the point. I just meant that if some good job is found, of good money, and no over stressed (unless is REAL huge money) stuff…heck, grab it. Forget about the passion thing. In some (green grass) places your boss may give you freedom in your executing of the graphics, in some others, even they’ll let you even take control on the whole graphic side. But this is not usual in my case. You become a grunt, an essential grunt, often, but actually you execute every right or wrong criteria of your boss, even if he does not know a single thing of graphics, composition, color, drawing, modelling, or even have a light knowledge of image editing himself, or even much more basic things.
Didn’t want to put the idea on every one that graphics, and specially game graphics, is bad. I mean that companies, specially game companies, have very ugly habits that my friends in other jobs do not suffer.(of course, there are some jobs that have plenty of other much more serious problems.but i can tell u they wouldn’t take a worse than theirs just make other people feel better, )
I just meant that is just exactly like any boring job when you have a boss that is…of certain type. And this happens often, as most of bosses are marketting guys with little to no idea on what is graphics all about.
And that way, if you really like doing 2d and 3d, well, I myself at least, have a worse time than doing a more boring or non creative job. I don’t care much if someone prefers a Linux or Windows installed this or this other way. I just format again and go on. Even if I have to do it loads of times a day. I did so. I do care if someone removes the wacom from my hand and starts to drop ugly strokes of the worst color possible in that point, by some marketting or simple boss person…even more if all these things happen every 5 mins or less. It becomes really irritating. Specially after 10 hours.
In comparison, when I did freelancing gfx, from home wasn’t so bad. True that i had to eat myself some logos, but heh, at least could end a full idea for the client, and one way or the other, you get allways a work done of the likes of the person. Or when I did worked as humor gag maker. I just did all that with my criteria.
I do know people , friend of mine (quite younger than I , an dthis is important) that have lived this years not changing of job (i did several times, and I’m happy knowing several professions) …and changing of city, and country every N months. There are people that like that, but I am seing some getting quite tired of that.
Is this totally to be believed as I tell it? Well, is true in my experience. But actually another person, in other country, or even in the same village, could have had a much better luck. But 4 companies for me are quite enough to consider a change of profession, and in my case is not a problem if I end upd deciding finally switching. And I know I’d be happier. But is hard when u finally get some titles out there, and some better money. But i may do. Depends on my boss character in next months
Anyway, once again…maybe 3d for TV, films, etc, is much a better world than gaming field.Also, at the same time, game companies of 5 or 8 workers may suffer much more than big companies were is not everything so weak and so overpressured.
BTW, in games at least, there are many companies that contract you in many countries even if you don’t have a single idea of drawing. Often the needs in these companies, if they’re big enough, or have a guy that wants to do all the drawings (and is owner of the company, lol) , they specially will not want someone who draws, but several bucnhes of modelers and texturers, and you can find your self there doing wall textures for a whole year, lol…and only that.(yup, in an small company is in that aspect more fun: I end up doing all the graphics of a game.)
I have no game studies. All the 3d and 2d I learnt, did at home. With also no manuals. Just modelling and 2d editing, etc.Same in drawing. Went to Fine Arts, but I already knew how to draw realism drawing and painting.
I only went to a multimedia master of a year or som, but heck, didn’t learn there nothing really useful.An dthe title brough zero job oportunities. They allways catched me for what I could handle, and not caring by my titles.The majority of the ppl I knew when went to Fine Arts (again, in my region) never learnt to draw really. And actually didn’t have an interest on that. At least in what is proportions, anatomy, realism, perspective, lighting, color…the base of drawing and all art, I mean.
So…Imho. You can grab a games, or other 3d job if you want. No matter if have or not traditional drawing skills, though they come really handy, I suppose. You can have a cool life with 3d and/or 3d game art…with some luck (you’ll need quite some luck, like every of us out there, I can ensure that.) .I just said I don’t recommend it. I do prefer to recommend to your own real art at home, at your will. That is art, actually.
And I also recommend people get as a main rule an stable, well paid job, put their strenghts in that. There’s room for anyother thing when achieving even partially that. Doing the opposite, getting an art job that rarely pays the bills (now I can pay em well, but been hard, and very unsure on how much this will last…tends to be only some months till company close, etc) , that leaves u no time, eyes tired as heck, and no will to do other 3d art at home -the one u’d otherwise do with your real aims- and surely lots of important life things in the way. I have known ppl that did the way I’d prefer: got an stable stituation and then started to do art…man, they’r so happy.
Was a bit worried there a minute…
Tricked me into retro-rant mode,