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From: fmartins@esoterica.pt (Fernando Martins)
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Subject: Re: Don't Quit Your Day Job
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>Of course there is the option to quit your job and start up your own
>animation company where you set your own salary, but you have to be
>virtually insane to do that (this is the route I chose :-) Ya better
>have some savings stashed or a wealthy wife if you want to try this.
Just to shre my thoughts...
Well, I worked at Andersen Consulting and I was feeling miserable every day ;(
Fortunately, I had the chance to go to the USA in an assignment and I made
contact with Lightwave, the Internet, this mailing-list, VTU, LWPro and lots
of other stuff graphics-related. I was thinking about quitting the job for
some time. So, as soon I had enough money to survive a whole year without any
kind of income, I quit and I started my demo-reel.
This was last September. Now, I had finished a demoreel (that is not
outstanding but sure is above average for the quality I see in this
country!!!) and I am starting sending faxes and calling Video-Prodution houses
to make some appointments. (gosh, most of them don't know what video-animation
is or want's to know about it!!!)
I know it's going to be very difficult since all the 'big-enough' production
houses are located at Lisbon, there are not much of them (I found about 60-80)
and it's a very restricted market. That means that only 3 or 4 of them can do
what I call 'professional-level' animation and the others do stuff that is in
the quality range of the LW-manuals tutorials!!! Or 2-D animations.
So, I guess my only chance is to get a job in one of those 3 or 4 companies or
do small freelance stuff, animations in the $200-$500 budget range!
It's hard, it's not much... BUT I FEEL ALIVE!!! No more waking up with a urge
feeling to throw myself over the window! I almost feel happy!!! Well, I need a
woman, but that's another story ;)
If I can't live of my animation work in 8 months... I will starve... And try
to teach something about multimedia in some kind of school, but at least, *I