Game art education in Belgium?

[boebi]

Hey,

Does anyone know of schools offering Game Art or something like that in Belgium?
The closest I have found was in Utrest (Netherlands).

[geldslaw]

what do you mean by game art? I think what you will find that artists in the games industry came or come from a self taught and a learned training by doing a fine art degree. If not a fine art degree then they had taught themselves and collaborated with other artists.

Simply search the web for freelance game artists and write to them to ask them what you should do to achieve a career in the games industry. what you will find is that there are no short cuts.

Why not write to the games companies and ask their advice? Many will be willing to tell you what skills or capabilities you have to develop, there are also the portafolio websites of many game artists that you can look at and you will see from the work they produce what you have to achieve.

hope this helps

[boebi]

Yea this does help

I'll contact Crytek, ask them what they expect from their artists.


What I actually still want to do is go to some school or uni where they do teach you how to model and so on.
The Game Art degree is the only one I've found yet, closest in Utrecht.
I also know they teach that in Full Sail, Orlando (Florida)

[geldslaw]

no matter what qualification you study you will have to produce work that meet the area of business the game company you are applying to specializes. to work for a games company you have three approaches

1. freelance as an allrounder or as a specialist
2 work for a small company and be expected to get your hands dirty in everything but believe me you'll have to be shit hot to sit in on a small games company.
3. work for a large games company and specialise because they provide top quality beyond this earth unique areas of services to clients

getting employment in a CG Profession is seriously hard, there are no 9-5 jobs, and if there are some, it'll be for shit pay unless your really good and got lots of years of team work experience, cos in this game no one works alone, its all a team effort and you can't be holding people back.

much of the time those that do get qualified spend a few years pushing their skill levels through the roof, it's pretty much like being a footballer, if you get experience in a winning team then your value goes up because they believe you've been a part of the effort to make that team successful.

you need to be mixing with game developers, rubbing shoulders, chatting tot hem in forums, making a good impression on them, basically networking and showing your skills off. Getting your work published in magazines or winning competitiogns, but most of all you've got to be doing it all for yourself because its what you know in your heart that its what you want to do.

there's not a lot of money in it, lots of praise and recognition and thats about it, so good luck and never give up

[geldslaw]

probably worth your while investing in one of the best allround video training resources available for serious CG artists GNOMON

hope that helps

[geldslaw]

was reading a spawn comic the other day and came across this and thought it might be helpful

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[geldslaw]

you found one, that's excellent. when do you start?