Beware ... it's one thing to have fun with 3D graphics and it's quite another thing to require it to pay your mortgage. Usually it's not all that much fun until you've put more than a few years in the sweat shops and have gained a bit of seniority. You're probably best advised to simply scale back your other job so that you can have more time for fun.
In my case, an Honours Degree in Fine Arts, ten years in agencies and twenty years freelance ... and I'm only now beginning to scale back the non-fun parts of graphics in favour of the fun (but not paying) parts. However, if your fun turns into a decent skill level, you'll know it and you'll know if you can take on strange requests from friends and who knows where things lead. Don't bother with the starving artist thing, it's been done before and seems to end the fun sooner than need be. Maybe just to tend towards a certain direction at any chance, have fun, stay healthy, don't wander about outside the ship without your spacesuit on, things like that ... Neil Cooke ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Hagerty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Realsoft Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 3:30 PM Subject: OT: graphics for a living? > I would really like to try and do a career change and get into computer > graphics instead of database programming and such. Any advice from > those of you who make a living with your work would be greatly > appreciated. How does one go about cutting their teeth and earning a > living? Also, what do you think of sites like this? > > http://www.ifreelance.com/Freelance-Jobs/3D-Graphic-Design-Freelance-Jobs/ > > Thanks, > Matthew >
