Hello, everybody! It’s very nice to fulfill you all.
My title is Mateus and I’m an indie recreation developer. Over the past six years I designed, developed and revealed 4 titles on each trendy platform at the moment accessible out there (PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Sequence S/X and Nintendo Swap).
Nonetheless, in the beginning of 2023 I had a small “breakthrough” and I began to need to go away the indie scene and begin working for an AAA firm as a daily worker. Selecting a discipline wasn’t exhausting, since I’ve all the time been fascinated with realtime VFX, so I went forward and began to do a little analysis earlier than shopping for programs, digging for assets, and many others.
The issue is that I checked out about 60 AAA studios web sites and about 90% of them had accessible positions for VFX artists, however actually all of them required 2-5 years of expertise… So my query is: Is it potential to enter the video games business with out prior expertise? I imply, even when I research for months or years and really turn into a superb VFX artist, how am I going to fulfill such a requirement?
I’m most likely lacking one thing right here, so please assist me perceive what’s the present state of the video games business to verify I’m entering into the correct path. Thanks rather a lot!
Ye, it’s potential. If you happen to construct robust portfolio (you possibly can all the time ask right here if a portfolio you’ve got is powerful or not) and take a look at making use of. Some corporations would possibly decline, however some would possibly settle for you despite the fact that you don’ have expertise 
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Thanks for the short reply, Manus! So in principle in the event you’re ok you possibly can merely skip that have time requirement? Now I’m marvel how good somebody would should be in that case. 
By the best way, in the event you don’t thoughts me asking: do you’ve any portfolios from different recreation VFX artists you personally admire? That may be an amazing supply of inspiration. Thanks! 
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Oh, it depends upon whether or not you’ll find a affiliate or mid vfx place. For Affiliate you largely would want to only get a superb maintain of timings and dynamics whereas for mid prob additionally extra technical stuff too.
And omg, that’s a very powerful query XD there are such a lot of that I’ll have a bother to even listing simply couple of them.
Take pleasure in getting complexes
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Most significantly I’d recommend to experiment first with completely different types and see which one you get pleasure from probably the most. Then attempt to make some results and ask individuals right here or in discord for suggestions. Learn how to make them higher. If you’ll have 3-4 rather well made and polished results then it’s a tremendous begin
