Blender 3D jobs/careers/degrees?
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My son has taught himself Blender [^] really well and will be graduating high school next year. I have searched to see what kinds of jobs are available and the best I can tell is Blender is used by freelancers who do jobs for companies that need a little work or as a full time 3D Modeler. 1. What job titles, except for 3D Modeler, would one search for if they wanted to use Blender as their primary tool (or any 3d modeling engine)? 2. What specific college degrees might one look into who has this interest? If any of you have experience in this area, I'd love to hear some advice and feedback.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data. There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
Has he built a portfolio of "free" work. To be honest, when I got started, I did a LOT of free programming to prove that a TEENAGER could actually do something useful. Once I had a portfolio, I could walk in, drop an 8 inch stack of greenbar prointouts, organized, and give an example of work that might be relative. Landed a job on my second interview. Depends on what your son likes to do. Grab an example he would like to work on... And NAIL IT. Contact and offer to do the work in exchange for the reference. But I do agree a College degree (or a few courses, at least) might be really helpful for more depth. (although I am discouraged by what I see on campuses these days) I assume that your son, like myself, just loves what he does. Other posts about finding out exactly what he likes, and what he is good at. Finally, the alternative is to find someone who he can apprentice with, and open source game needing his skills. Or a mentor he would like to follow. I spent a lot of time talking to people to find out if I would do better in Computer Operations vs. Programming vs. Administrative. The last 2 were up my alley. Cheers!
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My son has taught himself Blender [^] really well and will be graduating high school next year. I have searched to see what kinds of jobs are available and the best I can tell is Blender is used by freelancers who do jobs for companies that need a little work or as a full time 3D Modeler. 1. What job titles, except for 3D Modeler, would one search for if they wanted to use Blender as their primary tool (or any 3d modeling engine)? 2. What specific college degrees might one look into who has this interest? If any of you have experience in this area, I'd love to hear some advice and feedback.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data. There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
It falls into the (job) category of "Graphics Artists"; which is hugely saturated with anybody that has access to a computer and some "graphic" tools. (That and "content writers" / rewriters). Blender never shows up on the radar; went mainstream / open source too late (IMO). Most "graphics assets" are created using PhotoShop. Most games / VR are created using Unity3D; or the "UnReal" game engine.
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:laugh: I printed a screenshot of your reply so I could share it with my wife. There is such art in the succinctness! Thanks for the laugh I needed today. "One up-vote for you!"
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Jeremy Falcon
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My son has taught himself Blender [^] really well and will be graduating high school next year. I have searched to see what kinds of jobs are available and the best I can tell is Blender is used by freelancers who do jobs for companies that need a little work or as a full time 3D Modeler. 1. What job titles, except for 3D Modeler, would one search for if they wanted to use Blender as their primary tool (or any 3d modeling engine)? 2. What specific college degrees might one look into who has this interest? If any of you have experience in this area, I'd love to hear some advice and feedback.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data. There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
Content creator. Is is an independent gig. It is not a job you get hired for, it is just a job you do. Like a author. Setup an account at to resell his content on Daz3d and Unity3d and start creating 3d content that he sells and gets a piece of. If he creates resellable 3d content for four years instead of going to college he will be better at 3d content creation than college could make him and have a massive portfolio and will make money instead of spend money (college isn't cheap). I would argue he is not skipping an education but choosing and alternate self-educating route. Add in custom content creation for a custom price and he will have a viable company.