Advices

[arthurstofella]

Greetings,

 

Maybe this type of thread is common, but I wanted to ask some questions myself.

 

Some backstory then. I am an architecture student and not long ago, found this architecture visualization career path and it grasped my attention. So doing some search I`ve found the cgarchitect.com and now I am here asking for some advices.

 

1) I have experience with Sketchup and autoCAD only, what should I do, where can I start? 3DMax? Maya? What are the differences?

 

2) Does having an architecture degree helps in any way on finding a job?

 

3) Being 24 years old, and still an undergraduate I consider myself a bit old to start something I`ve never tried before haha. Does it has much influence?

 

4) Is there any way to get a master on architecure visualization? I mean, by doing that could I become a professor in a university?

 

I don`t know if i`ve made my questions clear and sorry for any misspelling or any other thing.

 

Thank you

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3) Being 24 years old, and still an undergraduate I consider myself a bit old to start something I`ve never tried before haha

 

 

Whaaaat?

[arthurstofella]

Ok, that sentence came out really weird now that I read it haha. I meant that if I start studying to work with CG the age would have any big influence, but I guess is just me being paranoic about it

[RyderSK]

2) Does having an architecture degree helps in any way on finding a job?

 

3) Being 24 years old, and still an undergraduate I consider myself a bit old to start something I`ve never tried before haha. Does it has much influence?

 

4) Is there any way to get a master on architecure visualization? I mean, by doing that could I become a professor in a university?

 

 

You seem to be mostly interested in safety of career path. And that's bit odd thing to do in creative industry, because it will never yield to a perfectly safe career. You either like it (Or "love it" if you prefer more hipsterish way) and want to do it or not. While there are already degrees in architectural visualization in UK and I guess somewhere else as well, it's absurd beyond measure.

 

Being an undergrature in architecture is only a positive, you have plenty of time to master up visualization until you finish master degree, and then you can do whatever you wish.

 

While plenty of people here will try to be helpful in some way or another, it's completely futile since neither of us are able to predict and plan your success. At most, they can motivate you, which I believe can be rather detrimental than a good thing... you should hold up to your own motivation.

 

Before you plan your whole life about something so ever-changing like CGI (as opposite to architecture, degree with such you can be anything, from mcdonald burger flipper to top-manager in financial equity groups) why not just...try and begin ?

 

It's 2014, the internet is full of resources of unimaginable scope. For the past 8 years, I have yet to ask someone a single question about anything. I found it faster myself.

 

On general note (not regarding only your post): Software choice became as irrelevant as ever before, we are finally in age when graphic "artist", don't need to be engineers/scientists at same time. Whether you choose will bring you to almost identical result, you can switch between and retain high amount of previously learned skill because of similarity. Oddly enough, this hasn't contributed to rise of quality in slightest sense :- ) But it did influence a large influx into "industry" which is never a bad thing (to great dismay of inflexible industry dinosaurs) and made the entry much easier. Max/Maya/Cinema/Modo/Sketchup/etc........Autocad/Revit/Archicad/etc.....Vray/Mental/Maxwell/Thea/Indigo/Octane/Corona/etc... comes purely to personal preference now.

[arthurstofella]

Well, that was quite the advice, I agree with most of it. Thank you very much.

[Scott Schroeder]

Greetings,

 

Maybe this type of thread is common, but I wanted to ask some questions myself.

 

Some backstory then. I am an architecture student and not long ago, found this architecture visualization career path and it grasped my attention. So doing some search I`ve found the cgarchitect.com and now I am here asking for some advices.

 

1) I have experience with Sketchup and autoCAD only, what should I do, where can I start? 3DMax? Maya? What are the differences?

 

2) Does having an architecture degree helps in any way on finding a job?

 

3) Being 24 years old, and still an undergraduate I consider myself a bit old to start something I`ve never tried before haha. Does it has much influence?

 

4) Is there any way to get a master on architecure visualization? I mean, by doing that could I become a professor in a university?

 

I don`t know if i`ve made my questions clear and sorry for any misspelling or any other thing.

 

Thank you

 

1) Juraj is exactly right. Software doesn't really matter. If you know how to model cleanly in X software, you can pick up Y software pretty quickly. Making a house is the exact same, it's the menu's that differ. That being said, this industry is a little picky at times and Max is generally the preferred modeling package. Though if I saw an awesome portfolio from a non-max user, I'd probably still recommend to hire them and just teach them the Max interface.

 

2) It depends on where you are looking to work. If you want to freelance or work for a visualization place, then having a degree won't ever hurt your chances but it's not always needed. Your portfolio is what gets you the job in those places. If you want to work directly for an architect, then usually degrees are required as well as a portfolio.

 

3) Age doesn't matter when you decide to do this. If you think 24 is old, you must think I'm up there with Methuselah. I know people who have completely switched careers and went after the passion at ages far far older then 24.

 

 

4) It depends on the University, but yes most of them have masters degrees in some field of Computer Graphics. They may or may not have an actual architectural visualization course, but most Master degree programs allow you a good amount of flexibility in choosing your path for your thesis.