>>1024657
none, my primary non creative job is immune to tech and pays better than 2€ per week freelancing and crunching overtime in a dead industry.

3D should be a personal non profit passion, anything else NGMI.

>>1024664
>3D should be a personal non profit passion, anything else NGMI.
based

>>1024664
>dead industry
what makes you right on that statement?

>>1024664
>dead industry
i dont see it as dead already, maybe dying, but i still have hope.

>>1024677
>>1024680
shit quality of products for higher cost, entire classes of 3d graduates are unable to find an internship at bare minimum these days, laid off senior workers from AAA studios with 15+ yrs pipeline experience and shipped titles are competing with you globally for scraps, freelancing pays next to nothing and you will crunch more than earning, employers abuse desperate juniors for unpaid overtime, job security is ass, reddit 3d subs are people crying theyre unemployed for more than 2 years, the list goes on

theyre gonna face a crysis when all the seniors retire but refuse to train juniors and thats where it'll collapse completely

i'd give the freelancing at home job to my girlfriend who'll live with me and doesn't have to worry about money.

it's only great and fulfilling when you work on your own passion projects and genuinely love 3D to not mind not earning from it at all.

I've been a professional 3d guy for over 20 years, almost 30 years.

This is a dead industry walking. There will be no such thing as 3d animators in 20 years outside of hobby work. Probably sooner than that. I give it 15 years, give or take 5 years.

Entertainment character animation and vfx will be the first to go. Last holdouts of 3d animation will be industrial and technical animations just because its too precise and niche for ai to understand and do it right. (No ai models trained on novel niche and exotic industry machinery or products so animation has to be done the old fashioned way).

By 2050, 3d animation will be a totally extinct industry. Ironically 2d hand drawn animation will survive because some lone guy drawing on pieces of paper and bringing it to life will always be enduring.

I for one am glad. 3d animation was always a means to an end in bringing our imagination to life. In the near future I will be able to produce my own movies and animated aesthetic films from my phone. I can make my imagination become reality without having to be a masochist and rendering my life away.

I think I'll take up welding, metal 3d printing and metal art after my 3d career winds down.

I have kids. I didnt even bother to teach my sons about 3d because I already know its a dead end industry on the verge of total collapse in a few years. I told my son to become an electrician.

>>1024664
>my primary non creative job is immune to tech
Like what?

>>1024689
>AAA studios
Those studios destroyed themselves through woke ideology. They made a choice to stop printing money. The industry itself is growing every year.

>>1024664
You underestimate how much passion you need to make it as a professional 3D artist, you have to live 3D to succeed

>>1024710
And be a masochist

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>>1024707
>I think I'll take up welding
this is what i want to do, i already know how to stick weld, i just need to get myuself a tig welder and im off to the races, the only problem is that where i live pays shit wages for welders, im waiting for a visa approval to go somewhere else, i think ill take up welding and apply my 3d knowledge.

i have an old jeep and i like to model stuff for it on fusion, might as well learn how to fabricate, right?