CG Artists: ‘Be the expert in your team’
by Anthony Filice on August 26, 2009
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Do you consider yourself a CG Artist with expertise in a specific field? Is your expertise used in your current Job Title/Role?
If you are an expert in a certain area but your current Job Title doesn’t call upon that expertise (but you want it to), it’s time you started speaking up, it’s time to start selling your ideas and get recognised as that expert.
Don’t let your Job Title blind or dictate your creative ability, step out of the Job Title and back into your background expertise, be unique.
It’s uncomfortable to speak up in meetings full of senior staff, it’s uncomfortable to say ‘I disagree’, and it’s uncomfortable to challenge ideas.
This short term discomfort will eventually transform into respect and identity…always remember that you are unique and there is no one else out there, that does things the same as you do.
If you are a CG Artist on a team and you have qualities which haven’t been noticed yet, don’t automatically assume that your fellow CG Artists, Senior or Lead Artist knows what they are, step up to the plate and show what your capabilities are.
Is your background in Architecture, Illustration, Product Design or Lighting? When get the opportunity to seize the moment and show your quality and expertise off in that related field, take it, if you don’t, someone who isn’t an expert will make the call…if they do make the call and they get it wrong, (in my opinion) it is a failure on your behalf, not to have added value or spoken up when presented with the chance.
CG Artists: Add Value if you get the chance.
It’s your duty to add value where you can, regardless of which end of the spectrum you lie…even if it’s not in your job title
Don’t let the Job Title dictate your Artistic abilities, add value when and where your expertise allow you to, share your background and be an expert in your team.
Anthony Filice
