Recently I've been working as a seasonal sales assistant at my local Game. It's my first real job and I love it. The staff, work, product and customers you meet.
I'm writing this entry mostly because of a customer I met. Dec 2nd.
The wii U was released this week- as part of my job I try to sell Wii U to customers, by taking it out onto the shop floor. One customer I noticed looked vaguelly interested, we talked about the wii U, nintendo in general and our share of interest in Zelda Geekery. We moved onto talking about his career as a illustrator working with Disney/Marvel comics and game concept art. He happened to have also gone to Plymouth college of Art doing a Graphic Design course. I encouraged him to do some visiting lectures, as it was something that he had thought about doing, and would be really great for us illustrators to hear the view of someone that has started at the same point we are at and have ended up somewhere we may aspire to go.
Useful info that he told me was that:
- He started designing t-shirts for a local company, then got offered more work and gradually onto what he's doing now.
- From experience, game design work has lots of opportunities up country at the moment.
- 90% of his commissions and works are communicated through email and the internet. He barely meets the people in person that he is working for.
-Finds time to also do children books onside his other work.
-Because of the industry he's in, he has to keep up to date with games/technology. eg. he could request a new games console to be put on his invoices expensives. ( a very encouraging thought to get into the games design industry)
Stupidly I forgot to ask what his name was, I've had a search with the little facts that I know, but nothing matches. Hopefully I'll find out eventually.
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