I found this post on the blog of Animation Ideas to be very interesting, insightul and useful. In it, the author describes what Vivienne To, a concept artist and illustrator at Animal Logic, had to say about her career from being a student to present day.
Starting off...
Everyone worries they’ll be discovered as a fraud
Doubting your own ability at the start of your career is normal. In fact, it could be healthy.
Vivienne was careful to work as quickly and as hard as she could in her junior roles to help ensure future work.
Working...
Being creative on someone else’s schedule is hard
When you’re a student – you can create whenever you like. Once you turn pro – you can’t wait for the muse to show up. You put your head down and get to work.
Taking all the subjects you didn’t like in art school is great preparation for doing all the unglamorous jobs when you get hired.
Take it to the extreme...
Push an idea too far – and then back off
Vivienne was convinced it was much better to take a concept design to its extreme first, and then come back if you need to.
In her words, you didn’t want to leave a design wondering whether you could have made it more expressive, or more caricatured, or more dramatic.
Working for free...
Do what you can to do good work with good people
When asked whether Vivienne had done work for free, she replied that she had in her early career, but that she always tried to applied a rule to the jobs she’d accepted.
Is the work good?
Are the people good?
Is the money good?
If you can’t answer “yes” to at least two of those questions, then you should carefully consider your next step.
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