Careers

Recently completing a Master of Animation and Visualisation at the UTS Animal Logic Academy, Ian Lade shares his journey and advice to aspiring artists looking for an exciting and challenging career as a 3D Animator.

Want a successful career working as an Environment Artist at some of the world's leading Game Development Studios? Enguerrand Michelin is an Environment Artist and recent graduate from New3dge. Since

Dennis Müller is a Senior Lighting Technical Director at Industrial Light & Magic in Vancouver, and he sits down with us to share his journey and advice to aspiring artists looking for an exciting and challenging career like his own.

This is an extensive article written by Think Tank Training Centre student Andrea Savchenko about her journey on getting into the games industry.

Depending on the day, sometimes we are troubleshooting ambitious ideas, or we could be handing out scripts to the board artists, or we could be checking all our designs before sending them to our vendor studios to build. Every day is different with its own flavour.

No matter how big FlippedNormals grows, I always want to keep producing content and solving the problems people are having. It’s really inspirational seeing how people improve by watching the videos we have, so keeping the core of always helping people is very important.

I look out for people who are easy to work with, having the ability to work as a team, the willingness to learn, help others, and put in the hard work. Having a strong portfolio also helps. I look for artists with a traditional arts background, due to the nature of our job as a matte painter.

Thanks to the internet, a strong portfolio (plus resume) gets you the interview. Your personality shows us we can spend 40+ hours a week with you. Your passion shows us how much you care about your work, your profession, and games as a whole. These three qualities land 90% of jobs.