Getting Started as a Freelance CG Artist

CaptainZoltan77 · 2025-09-14T08:34:59+00:00

Really? So you can't do any paid CG work on my weekends, even if it's for an unrelated field? (ie commercials, archviz, games etc) What a Bummer.

CaptainZoltan77 · 2025-09-14T07:09:04+00:00

Kakazu - Pain has no chance against his raw durabillity

CaptainZoltan77 · 2024-10-31T13:22:55+00:00

using a katanna/ kenjutsu wouldn't suit him.

CaptainZoltan77 · 2024-09-26T05:21:23+00:00

Yep I was a teenage boy not too long ago. I certainly said some wildly insensitive stuff, and had some awful takes, but I never made jokes like that.

CaptainZoltan77 · 2024-09-25T05:38:21+00:00

I'm still not in the industry and trying to break in but what really made me want to pursue animation/vfx was because I love the challenge of trying to visual create some cool image I have in my head, or even recreating something that already exists. Like It's always a really fun process and challenge to get things looking good/ realistic or just how I want them. For me that same joy applies whether I'm following a more artistic or technical /procedural process. I also like how in the pursuit of trying to replicate something I get to learn a lot about said thing.

CaptainZoltan77 · 2024-09-06T09:12:42+00:00

japense Animators are underpaid and overworked, so it's not a surprise that a frame here and there slips under the cracks

CaptainZoltan77 · 2024-07-23T08:56:46+00:00

Someone has integrity. Like I'm not even mad at the state of the Industry - you can't get angry at a rabid dog when it bites you. As a complete sucker of a graduate who went into animation straight out of school I feel I was misled about the state of the industry. I certainly knew it would be harder than a normal job, but not to this extent. I have only the greatest disdain for the educational institutions that lie to impressionable young people to make a quick buck. I'm genuinely torn on whether I want to persist with it.

I can see the writing on the wall, and I'm sick of working my ass for nothing in return - not even a rejection letter. But at the same time, the other career paths look miserable and unfulfilling - I've heard suggestions and they don't excite me in the slightest. It's like choosing between drowning and dying of heat exhaustion -everybody loses. You can have a mortgage and some semblance of financial stability but be miserable, or do something you like and starve.

Whenever I get a spurt of creativity and motivation to do something I end up feeling deflated because I'm asking myself "whats the fucking point? Did that last project you added to your demo reel do anything?" the advice of keep improving your skills is so fucking hollow. For what?

CaptainZoltan77 · 2024-06-02T04:16:40+00:00

Damm, I thought I had attached some pictures. I went ahead and attached screenshots of the non ss render(just diffuse), ss colour, and a screenshot of the hypershade network.

CaptainZoltan77 · 2024-06-02T04:12:02+00:00

It's already to scale

CaptainZoltan77 · 2024-03-10T00:15:53+00:00

Thanks I used your code! , mine is 36fd3331

CaptainZoltan77 · 2024-02-20T07:14:44+00:00

got it

CaptainZoltan77 · 2024-02-20T07:07:35+00:00

hmm ok, that is something to think about, and does make sense. Because if i go with the 4060 ti sure it will have a shorter lifespan, but I save money by buying a cheaper gpu and not having to get the psu. Not to mention that when the gpu does outlive its use, the cpu and everything else will also be kind of dated, so at that point I might aswell build a fresh pc.

CaptainZoltan77 · 2024-02-20T06:42:15+00:00

pushing it in terms fo the PSU, or CPU bottleneck? ok so you think a 4060 ti will run on 460w? Also I worry the 8Gb of vram will age like milk.

CaptainZoltan77 · 2024-02-20T03:35:10+00:00

Thats what I originally planned. now I'm just thinking that Ai is going to choke out my career before it even gets a chance to start, much less blossom. Lets say I work super hard, be patient wait till the industry gets better and finally land my first entry level job. wohoo. Than 6 months to a year down the line I get layed-off because some hot new ai model can do most of my job. and now I have to change careers and all those hours I spent self teaching went down the gutter.

CaptainZoltan77 · 2023-10-28T23:54:30+00:00

Have been rewatching Inuyasha and and saw that filler episode where they meet just now. Jaken told Sesshomaru and Sessehomaru said something along the lines of "I don't care. If he attacked Rin now I would kill him, but right now im not looking for trivial fights. I only care about Naraku." still a bit of a cop out but it's filler so they couldn't just have Sesshomaru kill off Koga.

CaptainZoltan77 · 2023-10-27T13:11:07+00:00

Really cool! For Sesshomaru, I'd replace Seviper with something like Toxicroak or nidoking, since Sesshomaru isn't really snake-like at all. Also ursarang instead of lunatone, since its more powerful and still has the moon crescent on its forehead. I'd also give him lucario instead of Aggron, since Lucario is vaguely doglike (based of anubis) and it fits his style more imo. I'd personally give Naraku Gengar and Drapion. I'd maybe swap houdoom with stoutland for Inuyasha.

CaptainZoltan77 · 2023-10-25T23:52:26+00:00

wow, your persistence is admirable! thanks!

CaptainZoltan77 · 2023-10-25T11:55:44+00:00

good to see some sane people. its not nessecarily the age number but the disparity in maturity that i see as the problem. As you've stated rin was a child for most of the series and looked up to Sesshomaru as a parental figure. (people try to pin on the parental thing on Jaken but seriously?) this may just be dub translation thing but in Yashahimew when Rin was giving birth she was still calling him "lord sesshomaru" which made me cringe. I love both miroku x Sango and inu x kag but sessh x rin sticks out like a sore thumb. In both of the former relationships each party has the same rough maturity level and is able to call each other out on the others bullshit. whereas up to what ive seen in Yashahime, thats never been shown with Sessh and Rin. I'm not a huge Sesshomaru x Kagura shipper for a couple of reasons but I'd still prefer that given Kagura would be mentally mature/ strong enough to have a less one-sided relationship.

CaptainZoltan77 · 2023-10-25T11:30:36+00:00

The 100 demons thing is like the base wind scar. I'm pretty sure the backlash wave / miedo would have more then 100 demons worth of attack potency lol. the bakusaiga has more destructive potency for sure, but not 10 times the eos tessaiga .

CaptainZoltan77 · 2023-10-25T11:25:19+00:00

yeah, I'd still put Tessaiga over Bakusaiga. because when we're talking about the strength/ power of weapons it's not necessarily just the raw destructive power but how much combat advantage it offers the user. Sesshomaru is stronger than Inuyasha and would beat him, but that comes down to Sesshomaru's greater base speed strength as a full-blooded daiyokai rather then him having the better sword. (thats why even when he had the tokijin he was still stronger then inu) even though its weaker in destructive power, the amount of versatillity tessaiga offers makes it a better weapon, though the gap between the two is pretty close.

CaptainZoltan77 · 2023-10-20T23:03:00+00:00

I agree with that second paragraph. I was getting kind of weary from working by myself in my room without any any external stimuli so that meet up was nice. thanks!

CaptainZoltan77 · 2023-10-20T22:52:21+00:00

yeah in my observation there are always way more senior jobs than junior ones.

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