I work for Blizzard as a Senior Animator II. I've had the privilege of working on titles like Spyro: Reignited Trilogy, The Elder Scrolls Online, and Dauntless. My goal for this channel is to teach others and share the knowledge and experience I've gained over the years working as an animator in games and television.
Mark I really enjoyed your story it is really tough out there thank you for sharing it with us. Games are pretty difficult depending on how large the game is and what kind of game it is. I was wondering is your new job still looking for developers?
dont turn women into ugly men and gamers will buy your games, most layoff happened cause of that or whyte dudes like you got layoff cause of their skin color and dont deny that eastern games are going sky high right now
There was a tutorial about animation layers that you created with this animation. Why did you delete it? It was really great. Could we know the reason? Did you receive feedback from other animators or something?
hey Mark, this is incredible tutor for beginners, can you make a advanced body mech tutor such like shooting, jumping, running all once to show complex body mechanics in one shot
Thank you for sharing your story. A lot of my friends got laid off at Blizzard and at my company. It's been a rough year. Hoping things get better soon
As an animator and a youtube.. I tried a few times to switch to blender but lack of tools like world bake and animbot, rotaiton order switches etc. Is driving me crazy. Its great to see you achieve the same results in blender here. Thanks for this video. Id love a video on how to switch from maya to blender. All the tutorials i see fro blender animation are for beginners and not industry professionals. So its amazing seeing you transfering your maya workflow to blender here
I read the first three words on the thumbnail, and was happy at first. Then I read the last word and felt sad lol. Thank you for sharing all this. Everything is crazy everywhere as far as I'm concerned. Entertainment industry more than anything else, and gaming is going bonkers. In some way I'm glad I went for "simpler" employment some time ago, but I do still have a passion for the industry in my heart of hearts.
Start your own studio, getting layoff is a blessing sometimes. I think the game industry needs smaller studio creating new IP, instead of remaking old games. Take smaller risk by working on smaller scale project.
You are very skilled. I am a 3d artist also. Not as good as you. Thanks for the motivation. I also go through these painful days where I feel drained. I have a 9-5 as a videographer but I push to do my 3d work in my free time. Glad you see people you keeping up the Designer Spirit.
Thanks for sharing your story. I'm sorry to hear you went through that. I'm not professionally in games but software and had 2 redundancies happen within a year so I know it's tough. I wish you well in your new job!
You've got a very professional attitude, and obviously high skill in your craft. You will likely continue to have infinite job opportunities. Keep it up dude!
I did 10+ years with EA and DISNEY. After my experience with the entire studio i was working at being shut down in a "strategic business decision", I decided not to go back into the industry. Glad I was gone before this whole DEI infestation really hit hard. I still work on games on my own, hoping to get something to release on a small/tiny scale later this year. I'm finding it really fun and enjoyable again! And I do it for love of the process, not for the money!
As someone who has been studying animation for 2 years and getting toward that edge of starting to apply for jobs, hearing you talk about this was very helpful. Thank you!
Appreciate you sharing all this Mark! It was interesting to hear. I've been through a layoff myself not long ago, and luckily landed on my feet again as well after few months. Feels like getting another chance in life really!
I ran into a similar issue with my YT channel. I've been going job to job, contract to contract in gaming for awhile now and the instability of not knowing that you're going to have a job 5 years from now makes it hard to get back to YT videos when the back of your head keeps telling you to add more to your portfolio, and constantly prepare for that next job hunt.
its scary to see these lay offs, seems to only be hitting the huge companies. i work for a smaller studio and things are going pretty well ( knock on wood). Nothing is set in stone though, ever. Unique Skill sets and overall raw talent (wearing many hats) are very attractive to smaller company leads.
@@MarkMastersAnim I've kinda given up on the industry throwing me a bone so I'm just starting my own studio with some other folks who got laid off with me. Fuck it. The AAA scene doesn't have much for me in the long term, and that's where the career canon launches anyone who enters. Why the hell would I waste my time making skinner boxes that ruin kids' brains when I came here to make FUCKING ART? I'll happily wallow in squalor till I sell one goddamn game if it means I get to contribute to a product that *isn't* designed to be a glorified store platform.
I'm glad you bounced back from the Layouts! I too was laid off in January this year from ABK. Prior to that I was also working on EXODUS! Such a great project. I can't wait for it to come out so I can finally show all the concept art i did for it!
