At long last
Aug. 20th, 2007 06:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
secondlinaWoot!!!!
It's me again, the adorably annoying Link. Comming back to do some more publicity for myself.
Announcement starts:
MY PORTFOLIO SITE IS UP!!!!!!!!!
http://www.pascalmichaud.5u.com/
Announcement ends.
Well, after about three weeks of hard work, the project that I've been meaning to do for a LONG time, but never got around to doing it till now, is finally done.
Now I can just show my art to anybody that has acces to the web.
Next step, getting my business card printed.
Here's an interesting story that happened to me a few days ago:
I was able to get into contact with this guy who's a 3d animator here in Montreal. He checked out my demo with three of his friends that are all 3d lead animation, and 3d animator recruitors. He gave me a call last Friday to tell me what he and his friends thought of my demo and the guy told me something that I've been waiting to hear for the last ten months. I SUCK.
Ok, he wasn't as un-diplomatic as that. He didn't use those words, but that's basicly what he said.
Let me explain why I've been waiting to hear this.
For the last year, everybody that's watched my demo (pretty much only fellow students, friends and family). They've all told me that my demo was great, that I'll get a job for sure, that I'm going to go far in life and such. BUT!!!!! After ten months of looking for a job in 3D I still haven't found any work in 3D, even thought I put a LOT of effort into trying to find a job. Something wasn't right. Either I really wasn't lucky or I wasn't as good as I might've once thought.
Even the 3D recruiters I was able to get an interview with where talking to me about other problems in my demo, without ever telling me that my material was a problem on itself. Result, I fixed the smaller problems I was told about in my demo without putting much focus on trying to Improve my talents too much since they never came up as a problem. And I get more and more pissed off cuz I fix what I was told to fix, but I'm still not getting any more luck finding a job.
Finally, I get told that my material is quite simply not good enough to land me a job unless the company is pretty damn desperate and everything explains itself. Apparently the competition is much fiercer than what I thought and was told.
So now, what I have to do is spend the next 2 to 3 month to do massive amounts of practice in 3D animation. With any luck, I'll be able to get the government to support me thru either well-fare or possibly an art project fund. That way I won't have to work and thus split my focus between two things.
If for some reason, I can't get support and have to find a part time job. Then I figure It'll take about 6 to 7 month to get the amount of practice I'll need to get back in the 3D groove. I figure that It'll need about 5 or so hundred hours of practice.
I really hope that it doesn't go to the alternative since I was also told that every month that pass since you get out of school is one more handicap towards getting a job. Apparently, past 2 years that you stay without a job in 3D after school makes it neigh impossible to land the job.
Since I've already been out of school for over a year now. I've got my work cut out for me.
So now I'm going to eat, sleep and shit 3D animation till I land my job. I've done it once, I can do it again.
Its the beauty of being able to control your obsessions.
Alright, so that's pretty much all I've got to tell you guys and gals.
Wish me luck.
Link
It's me again, the adorably annoying Link. Comming back to do some more publicity for myself.
Announcement starts:
MY PORTFOLIO SITE IS UP!!!!!!!!!
http://www.pascalmichaud.5u.com/
Announcement ends.
Well, after about three weeks of hard work, the project that I've been meaning to do for a LONG time, but never got around to doing it till now, is finally done.
Now I can just show my art to anybody that has acces to the web.
Next step, getting my business card printed.
Here's an interesting story that happened to me a few days ago:
I was able to get into contact with this guy who's a 3d animator here in Montreal. He checked out my demo with three of his friends that are all 3d lead animation, and 3d animator recruitors. He gave me a call last Friday to tell me what he and his friends thought of my demo and the guy told me something that I've been waiting to hear for the last ten months. I SUCK.
Ok, he wasn't as un-diplomatic as that. He didn't use those words, but that's basicly what he said.
Let me explain why I've been waiting to hear this.
For the last year, everybody that's watched my demo (pretty much only fellow students, friends and family). They've all told me that my demo was great, that I'll get a job for sure, that I'm going to go far in life and such. BUT!!!!! After ten months of looking for a job in 3D I still haven't found any work in 3D, even thought I put a LOT of effort into trying to find a job. Something wasn't right. Either I really wasn't lucky or I wasn't as good as I might've once thought.
Even the 3D recruiters I was able to get an interview with where talking to me about other problems in my demo, without ever telling me that my material was a problem on itself. Result, I fixed the smaller problems I was told about in my demo without putting much focus on trying to Improve my talents too much since they never came up as a problem. And I get more and more pissed off cuz I fix what I was told to fix, but I'm still not getting any more luck finding a job.
Finally, I get told that my material is quite simply not good enough to land me a job unless the company is pretty damn desperate and everything explains itself. Apparently the competition is much fiercer than what I thought and was told.
So now, what I have to do is spend the next 2 to 3 month to do massive amounts of practice in 3D animation. With any luck, I'll be able to get the government to support me thru either well-fare or possibly an art project fund. That way I won't have to work and thus split my focus between two things.
If for some reason, I can't get support and have to find a part time job. Then I figure It'll take about 6 to 7 month to get the amount of practice I'll need to get back in the 3D groove. I figure that It'll need about 5 or so hundred hours of practice.
I really hope that it doesn't go to the alternative since I was also told that every month that pass since you get out of school is one more handicap towards getting a job. Apparently, past 2 years that you stay without a job in 3D after school makes it neigh impossible to land the job.
Since I've already been out of school for over a year now. I've got my work cut out for me.
So now I'm going to eat, sleep and shit 3D animation till I land my job. I've done it once, I can do it again.
Its the beauty of being able to control your obsessions.
Alright, so that's pretty much all I've got to tell you guys and gals.
Wish me luck.
Link
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Date: 2007-08-21 01:21 am (UTC)Can you ask that animator if he can give you an in-depth critique on your work? Find out where exactly you need to improve so you can tackle those areas. Having mentors is an absolutely wonderful thing and I was able to find several through the visual journalism Web site I became part of back in 2004. That really changed my career.
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Date: 2007-08-21 02:15 am (UTC)Actually, I spent almost an hour talking to the guy to get that in-depth critique. I know what I need to do and what I need to work on. Now I just need to work on it.
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Date: 2007-08-21 02:15 am (UTC)Je ne sais aps quels sont tes aspirations vis-à-vis une carrière en animation, mais tu pourrais peut-être considérer te prendre un emploi en temps partiel dans un domaine proche du tiens. Je sais que certaines compagnies prennent des "hommes à tout faire" qui sont justement capable de tout faire pour combler leur trous. Ça permettrait de te donenr de l'expérience dans le type de travail. On m'a dit que, dans le domaine des jeux, les eprsonnes qui avait fait du QA avant de devenir programmeurs avaient une meilleure perspective de leur travaile et des erreurs possibles que ceux qui entraient sans expérience. (Exemple complètement pas rapport finalement) Au pire, tu fais comme moi, tu te trouves une job dans le domaine mais pas ce que tu veux faire,e t tu pauses des questions pour t'améliorer!
Mais bon, il faut aussi faire attention pour ne pas t'enfermer dans une job que tu ne veux pas faire... Si tu penses qu'avoir une job autre que celle voulue, mais dans le bon secteur ne ferait qu'entraver ta pratique de Maya, c'est pas une bonne idée.
Finalement, moi, je donne des conseils nuls...
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Date: 2007-08-21 02:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-21 08:28 pm (UTC)Tu pourrais toujorus aller voir à L'ONF. Je pense qu'ils ont juste une personne en animation 3D, donc peut-être qu'ils chercheraient quelqu'un d'autre...
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Date: 2007-08-21 11:48 pm (UTC)Best of luck in any case!