The second point is that you need to understand that getting good at modelling takes a tremendous amount of time. This is definitely not a short road. I see people expecting to make a break into the industry after taking some online courses on one of this 3d schools out there that sell you this noob to pro in 6 months bullshit. Trust me, you won’t…or if you will, it will only be because you were fortunate enough to know the right person and has nothing to do with your actual skills. The 3d schools, 3d tutorial makers, 3d mentors…they’re all there to take your money with the smallest effort that they can put into it. Some take this to extremes…. you will see prerecorded videos from 5 years ago rebranded as a new workshops and sold for hundreds if not thousands of dollars. In reality…the only way to get good is to work your ass of. Now let me explain you what working your ass of means since a lot of you think that it means 2h of 3d every other day for like 2-3 months…. this is not it! In my opinion to get to a medium level as a prop artist you need like 3 years of at least 8h/day of work and as a character artist close to 5 years. Now you can make some cool characters or props during the whole learning process but that will be not, by any means, enough for you to sustain production time and quality. You need to work hard and long hours to build up that knowledge base that you will need to have to be able to approach any asset/character and find the fastest workflow possible to meet the requirements. I have students that can deliver really good quality but they’re slow for now and I constantly tell them that they need to build up speed before venturing on the production world. I have more than 20 years since I’ve started on this road and I’m learning new things every single day. For example, you can check my facial anatomy skills 2-3 years ago and compare it with my current facial anatomy knowledge... it's such a big difference that it makes me cringe when I look at my old works... and I still have so much more to learn. It takes time and a lot of practice. Give yourself time and understand that you can’t grow over night.

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