Re: the current art twitter topic/drama/kerfuffle

I currently work at Pokemon. Arguably a dream job. I have been working in video games for 8 years, 0 of my full time studio jobs were through the internet.

I got all of them through being nice to people & doing the work.

The first was a referral from a school friend. I had no experience on my resume, but did an art test, it was animating ui in flash, they hired me.

The second was another friend sharing my job search post on linkedin, a recruiter reached out to me based on my portfolio.

The third was yet another friend, their employer contacted me based on my portfolio.

Pokemon was another friend referral.

Most of the extremely talented people I have worked with don’t have a huge following. If game dev is your goal, good work & attitude is more important.