I have been looking at jobs in and around Derby and have come up with several indie companies that seem promising however none of them are hiring a vehicle or prop artist which I am gearing my career towards as this is where I have the most experience and I find it the most enjoyable area to spend time on. I will however send them emails expressing my interest in working for them in either a job or internship role and hopefully one of them will reply although I highly doubt it. Strawdog studios do offer internship roles for a year which would be perfect for me so I will be more direct and go straight for the internship. This will give me good experience of all aspects of the studio and the Placement and work experience section does say that the role is very hands on and expectations are high but I believe I can live up to and possibly exceed their expectations. I was also looking for jobs in Nottingham which proved a little more promising than Derby but again these studios are either not hiring or hiring for positions that would be unsuitable for me and my skill set. One company that sounded interesting was Lockwood publishing, they created a mobile MMO game called Avakin Life. This would be an interesting experience and I think I would learn a lot especially about the work flow of MMO's and how they managed to create an MMO on a phone. Learning how to create decent looking assets with a low poly count would be a challenge for me and something I think would be useful to me.
For the second stage I have found a few studios in and around Huddersfield. One studio, Hypersloth, are based in Huddersfield and made the game Dream but they are not recruiting. I will still send them and email expressing my interest and hopefully they will keep me apprised on any jobs that become available. The other local studio was Creative North Studios however their website seems to have disappeared and after researching what games they created in the past it seems obvious why they no longer have a website as they created Super Kicker 2007 and World Rugby 2007. I assume that they have probably closed their doors by now. Searching further afield I found most of the jobs to be in Manchester. One of particular interest to me is for Cloud Imperium who make the game Star Citizen. The job for 3D vehicle artist sounds like a perfect job for me as I would be creating detailed star ships like these
so for me this would be a dream job and something that I will really try hard to get, failing this they do have a prop artist job on offer which I would also love to go for as I really do adore the company and the work they do.
As for freelancing I feel that I would not be suited for it. I don't have the connections that would be needed because I would have nobody to recommend me, I also feel that a few years in industry would give me better experience that I could use for freelance work. Freelancing would also be an option if I were to leave the industry and I could give a list of the games and companies I have worked on and for which should impress potential employers.
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