If you’re doing art in the hope of becoming an AAA game artist with a six-figure salary, you’re already fighting an uphill battle
There are roughly 83,000 direct game industry employees in the United States. Concept artists, character artists, environment artists, animators, technical artists, VFX artists, UI artists, and other art-related roles likely account for only 15–25% of that workforce. That’s somewhere between 12,000 and 20,000 people
To put that into perspective, that’s roughly the same number of people currently working as nuclear engineers in the entire country
You’re trying to break into a profession that represents around 0.007% of the US workforce. Those are odds most gamblers wouldn’t take even on a good day
And that’s before considering that many of the people currently working in the industry got in over a decade ago. They’re not above tribalism or gatekeeping, especially amid the devastating layoffs that have been sweeping through the industry
You don’t need the approval of corporate executives or studio heads to make art. Your work doesn’t need to be attached to a big-name AAA IP to be good or meaningful. Stop trying to suck up to the people who will choose AI and cheap outsourcing over new talent every chance they get. They don’t care about you
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