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Originally Posted by Inferno
Yeah, I wish now I would have headed out there ten years ago to go to school but all I can do now is try and make up for that mistake. It sucks that I have to move so far away from family but unfortunately the game industry isn't big in Winnipeg, Saskatchewan and Calgary. They have Bioware in Edmonton but they don't make the type of games that I'm into.
The one thing I really like about Think Tank is in your last semester they'll hire a personal mentor who works at the studio you want to work at to help you polish your reel so that your chances of getting hired are better.
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We have had students in before but I think it has been awhile. Even in a year VFX artists will be in high demand. Right now we are hiring foreign as the skill level seems to be a little higher but local hires are always much more desirable. Just about every major VFX company is in town or in the process, we use a tonne of texture artists, if you are open to feature films there will be tonnes of work over the next 3 to 5 years.
It is a fun industry with a lot of perks. I will chat with some of my EA friends and see how the landscape is over these days. It is a pretty cool company...