I recently got laid off what I thought was my dream job after leaving my old job for it after like 2 months. I was not expecting it and wasn't given any notice, totally threw off all my plans for the year. This video couldn't have been timed better
At this point it feels like working in your small scale project ( like a game or comics or an animated shorts) & trying to make money from it is a better choice than looking for jobs, as it is getting harder to get hired. For 3D artist start selling 3D assets for freelancing in the side, don't confine yourself to Entertianment sector, try to venture of to Archviz, Product Rendering as well. For 2D artist I am not sure, as I have always looked at Concept art to supplement my 3D skills.
Hi Jose the video only has sound on one side I would make a note! Last year I was in a game project that fell apart and then jumped on another job that turned out to be scam in my desperation to be employed. My brother is in IT and he always tells me that AI is going to replace my job and that my days as a 2D artist is obsolete. As a physically disabled person it makes me very scared, I wasn't able to do a lot of low wage jobs growing up because I kept getting injured. I think having a budget is great because it puts the anxiety into something more concrete and manageable. I've always squirrel savings away because as an artist I figured I won't be well off but I've never been laid off this long u_u. I don't know what to do anymore so I guess I better research!
practical and important. I'm in a bit of a "pause" right now because I'm trying to focus on improving my skills and building my portfolio. If I didn't have some savings and my family to help me, I would have to give it up, or try to make it work between shifts at a retail job.
@@milkbread5036 Yeah I've done that before, too. When I graduated university, the Coronavirus pandemic was in full force. No one was hiring, and everything was really depressing (because everyone was freaking out over the virus or the vaccine, or both). I eventually found a job flipping burgers at midnight, so I would work on art stuff and job applications during the day and sell french fries at night. I eventually got a job doing art for a small startup business and did that for 3 years. Now I'm looking for something new. Good luck to you! Don't forget to move uo in your interim-career, too. As soon as you can find something better than what you're doing, trade it in. Nothing's worse than being too tired to do art because you were doing a demanding, physical job for 12 hours. Well, the tiny paycheck is worse. 🤣 (To clarify, I'm thankfully not having to work a side job right now, because I have savings and a helpful family, and I have been helping my family with a lot of stuff, too.)
