Hello, everybody! It’s very nice to satisfy you all.
My title is Mateus and I’m an indie sport developer. Over the last six years I designed, developed and printed 4 titles on each trendy platform at the moment accessible available in the market (PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Sequence S/X and Nintendo Change).
Nevertheless, at first of 2023 I had a small “breakthrough” and I began to need to depart the indie scene and begin working for an AAA firm as an everyday worker. Selecting a discipline wasn’t onerous, 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 so forth.
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 trade with out prior expertise? I imply, even when I examine for months or years and really develop into an excellent VFX artist, how am I going to satisfy such a requirement?
I’m in all probability lacking one thing right here, so please assist me perceive what’s the present state of the video games trade to ensure I’m entering into the proper path. Thanks so much!
Ye, it’s potential. In the event you construct sturdy portfolio (you’ll be able to all the time ask right here if a portfolio you have got is robust or not) and take a look at making use of. Some corporations may decline, however some may settle for you despite the fact that you don’ have expertise 
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Thanks for the fast reply, Manus! So in idea in case you’re ok you’ll be able to merely skip that have time requirement? Now I’m marvel how good somebody would should be in that case. 
By the best way, in case you don’t thoughts me asking: do you’ve any portfolios from different sport VFX artists you personally admire? That might be an awesome supply of inspiration. Thanks! 
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Oh, it is dependent upon whether or not you’ll find a affiliate or mid vfx place. For Affiliate you largely would want to simply get an excellent 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 hassle to even listing simply couple of them.
Get pleasure from getting complexes
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Most significantly I might recommend to experiment first with totally different types and see which one you get pleasure from probably the most. Then attempt to make some results and ask folks right here or in discord for suggestions. Easy methods to make them higher. If you should have 3-4 very well made and polished results then it’s an incredible begin
