Comments on: Crunch http://www.ninjadodo.net/dodoblog/archives/2010/01/19/crunch-2/ Art, animation, games… and dodos. Mon, 03 Jan 2011 20:12:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dan Carey http://www.ninjadodo.net/dodoblog/archives/2010/01/19/crunch-2/comment-page-1/#comment-2674 Dan Carey Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:17:45 +0000 http://www.ninjadodo.net/dodoblog/?p=518#comment-2674 I very much feel the same, as much as we love being animating, in our final moments im sure we wont be thinking ‘I wish I spent more time in the office’. It seems to me for the most part game studios have begun realising this and use a ‘work / life’ balance as part of their approach to hiring. On the opposite side of the table we have film and I feel that industry needs to catch up a little. The studio managers tend to have the upper hand when a thousand more artists would gladly fill your job. I firmly believe these industries are what we make them, and while we may seem removed from the decisions made at the powers above, we have the final say - and I say lets say something good. This is a great blog, keep it up :) I very much feel the same, as much as we love being animating, in our final moments im sure we wont be thinking ‘I wish I spent more time in the office’. It seems to me for the most part game studios have begun realising this and use a ‘work / life’ balance as part of their approach to hiring. On the opposite side of the table we have film and I feel that industry needs to catch up a little. The studio managers tend to have the upper hand when a thousand more artists would gladly fill your job. I firmly believe these industries are what we make them, and while we may seem removed from the decisions made at the powers above, we have the final say – and I say lets say something good.

This is a great blog, keep it up :)

]]>