Where do you want to go and how do you want to get there

Where do you want to go and how do you want to get there?

Well I spent a number of years wondering what career it was that I wanted to do let alone where I was going to end up. However having said this I am now at a point in my life where I am happy in the knowledge that I want to work as a Vehicle Artist, when I finish University.

I am enjoying my time at University and have especially enjoyed the car drawing, van modelling and concept vehicle designing briefs. I feel that my strengths in my 3d work lie in vehicle modelling and I am quite passionate about it.

I intend on having modelled around fifty vehicles by the time that I finish University. I intend on modelling not only new and cutting edge vehicles but also classic and vintage ones too. During this summer I am going to visit a number of transport museums in order to collect as much primary sourced reference as possible.

Again I do feel that my strengths in my visual design work are probably in my vehicle drawing skills but I am not going to stick to just those alone. They are probably better because I’m more interested in creating them, but I do seem better at drawing stuff that isn’t organic. I am going to draw every vehicle that I model just to add more depth to my portfolio.

Whilst I know what path that I want to follow I am going to plug away at my visual design skills, as I know this is the area that I need to improve the most in. I’m glad that I completed my two year course at college prior to starting on this one, as it gave me a good understanding of 3ds max and design work in general. I feel for some people on my course as I know how it feels having to learn 3ds max from scratch, however most people are fine.

My only grumble about my course is that I wish that I had more time to develop my texturing skills, which I’m sure I will in the summer. As long as I continue to progress in all areas I’m sure I will make it through my course and achieve my goal of becoming a great Vehicle Artist. My dream job would be to work on either a ‘Grand Turismo’ game, a ‘Need for Speed’ game or a ‘Colin McRae’ game, however any job in the industry would be good.

I am looking to work in the midlands area as I have no plans on moving to far away but I will never limit my options of work as I know that I need to be flexible to make it in this industry. If I fail to find work I would consider, as a backup plan, going into teaching as I know how rewarding it can be to teach as I already help my Taekwondo instructor to teach at my local club.