12.0 The industry
12.1 Gaming
12.1.1 What to expect – From entry level to art director
So, a lot of focus is going into creating well built and appealing art for your portfolio, but what is the industry like once you finally get in and working? What is it like working in a junior artist in a large studio? What is it like working as a team lead or an art director on large long-term productions? What is it actually like working as a freelancer or building your own business? We can try to cover some of that here now so that you can get an idea of what it is actually like working as a professional character artist in the entertainment industries.
Before we get started, we will cover character artists working in video ...
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