18, active freelancer for a little over a year.

23 going in to my final year of education in sept

27 in less than a week and currently in my first week of games industry work.

21

Currently have a job as a 3d artist in the defense simulation industry while I'm in school. Hopefully getting a real game job soon.

23, got in at 22.

... counts on fingers ... 35? Christ alive, how did that happen. Started at the end of '98 ... so ... someone work that out for me please

harumph

Racer445 are you really 18? i have no idea how someone could be so awesome at 18

27 now, started working at an animation studio at 18 and moved to games at 20.

23 right now. got my 1st 3d gig teaching 3d modeling and doing 3d printing at offload studios when I was 17.
1st game industry job at 19.

18, I guess I would be considered a student right now as I've been self teaching myself for about a year and going to Futurepoly but later this year or sometime next year I'll start trying to break in.

I'm 32 (sheesh I'm old).

Got in August 2000.

24 when I first started. Still in the industry now at *gasp* 39.

Now get off of my lawn!

22 atm, now doing an internship at a gamestudio so that's a foot in the industry i guess

21. had an internship with a crap company when i was 19. nothing came of it. got my first freelance gig about a year ago doing realtime architectural rendering in UDK. got an internship this year with an outsourcing company. still a student, graduating in september with a game-art degree that im paying waaaay too much for an not learning a damn thing from.

26 now, got my first studio gig at 22

32. Shipped first game at age 18.

~ Okay so judging from our statistics... Some kind of Game Art reaper appears at around late 30s? early 40s to claim your soul forever???

Why has this information never been shared with me before????

Hey man, it's been out there for quite a while actually. I think I've seen it mentioned here and there for years now. The point is that a lot of elderly folk(he-he ) looking to settle down transition to other cg industries that seem more stable. Crunching gets old after a while as does constant relocating. Those "dropouts" constitute a pretty big chunk of the workforce.
I think I've seen some companies "always hiring" senior artists even when they don't have open positions atm, which kinda speaks for itself.

Kinda interesting to imagine myself 10 years in and whether I'll get tired of this stuff or not

Originally Posted by d1ver

Hey man, it's been out there for quite a while actually. I think I've seen it mentioned here and there for years now. The point is that a lot of elderly folk(he-he ) looking to settle down transition to other cg industries that seem more stable. Crunching gets old after a while as does constant relocating. Those "dropouts" constitute a pretty big chunk of the workforce.
I think I've seen some companies "always hiring" senior artists even when they don't have open positions atm, which kinda speaks for itself.

Kinda interesting to imagine myself 10 years in and whether I'll get tired of this stuff or not

~ Yeah I hear ya, man.

I notice programmers seem to stick around a lot longer than artists though. I'm assuming because their general job security and paychecks are a lot better than ours!

The whole 'always hiring seniors' thing is crazy. I never really bothered to notice that ish before you just mentioned it.

35 going on 36. Been in this circus since I was 23.

29 ( /o\ )
Got in around 23

19, currently a student, and like Oniram learning NOTHING, polycount has taught me more >.<. Finishing school in 5 months and currently looking for a job as an environment artist! Check out my site

23 Trying to get into a good studio and always a student

24, going into my masters year at Uni in September and then out into the terrifying world of job hunting :P

Turing 23 in a couple days. First industry job at age of 22 last December. XD