Any one here from Australia?
If so what are the job prospects for an artist with no papers(degree-deploma-so on)???
Can you point me in the right direction to search for work in the CG world.Any hints and tips would be appreciated.
Thanks.
So there is no one here from Australia???
I’m from australia but I can’t help you with that one. Just keep honing your skills.
Thanks for the reply thelonious.You said you were from Australia but on you details you say your from the UK - did you move to the UK for work?
I came here to do theatrical photography. Although at the moment I’m making hats. It’s quite fun here in europe and the theatre and arts are just amazing. Although I do miss the blue mountains.
Here’s a blackboy done from a photo in painter. 
and the original
Hey great ‘black boy’ thelonious!There are alot of them around where I live. Unbelievable plants.I live in a small country town close to the Flinders Ranges in SA.Great view all year round.Do you miss the climate here at all?It would be pretty cold over there wouldn’t it?
The climate thing is a bit of a myth. The blackboy below was taken in a field of blackboys near Canberra. there were hundreds some with five spikes and three trunks! here’s another one taken by my gf in Perth, it has a large resin bulge which makes it look a bit like a cassowary.
there’s going to be a massive picasso and mattisse exhibition on in a few weeks over here. With stuff like that who cares about the weather.
say, mates :), how big do them extraterrestrial blackboys grow downunder :qu: when i was visiting WA about 8 yrs ago i was shown selfenflaming bushes, nettles that will injure you severely and hurt for years and twostorey high cacti and other strange (from my european point of view) vegetation of mucho more kinds but them blackboys i missed.
- juandel
PS: great painting, thelonious!!!
In SA we get them(black boys) around a mitre tall - give or take a bit.Did you get to see any of the monster ant hills when you were here in Australia juandel?
Hey syco26 I’m from the central coast, bout an hours north of Sydney, The prospects for a cg artists with skills round here are promising but you have to be prepaired to wait for the fluctuating market, work some pretty horrible and ungodly hours. I’ve been waiting for around four months for one particular job, but i’ve foud other smaller cg jobs to keep me going. One tip i can give you is do some work experience if you haven’t got papers, don’t try to go straight to to the leading cg studios, It’s hard to get work experience with them and you don’t get as much hands on experience as you would with smaller compaines. I can email you about some other options if you want.
a meter or so… huge! a field of the consisting of hundreds must look like a herd of very strange geese! giant anthills i missed as well. i didn’t come out of Perth county a lot, i was just visiting friends for two weeks or the like. nature was always close, though: in the granny flat i stayed we identified 5 sorts of venomous spiders hanging out or running about there 
- juandel
Hi Hansl,
The field of blackboys in canberra were exceptional many were over two metres tall. I think they take about 500 years to grow a metre.
Did you get to see any of those tiny black spiders with the white stripe? If they bite you, your flesh falls off. Nasty.
btw you realise of course that the painting done is painter is using cloning technique directly from the photo. I whipped that one up in about 3 minutes. If you spend some time there is no way at all that you would tell it was cloned. That particular one was a bit jokey because I used a fibre coloner to straighten out the flowers, and make it furry on the edges. here’s another clone.
Wow! canberry fields forever 
hmmm, thelonious, i remember the following spiders (but there were one or two more i had encounters with there):
funnelweb spider (not the dangerous kind from the sydney area, but building funnel webs as well; and this was an aggressive individual, came running towards us with frontbody erected - bad idea: it was smashed with a rubber slipper; there has to be some cruesome acid in this tiny spider as well, as there was a cauterized area about 2 millimeters deep in the slippers sole when we looked closer)
redback. as beautiful to look at as the beer of the same name is tasty and as a bite of it hurts (mucho, i was told - i tried the beer and the vista only ;))
wolfspider. impressive big hairy thing. i dont know if this has venom but it looks like as if it loves to eat tiny lambs
white tailed spider. i think this is the one that makes your flesh fall off. very tiny. i’ve heard they had been discovered to have that awful bite-effect just a few years before i visited downunder because the bite wont hurt and the flesh falls off for no visible reason a few months later only.
what a neighborhood 
your painter-paintings look absolutely fantabulous 
i have to give that classic version sleeping on my harddrive since years another try asap! very inspiring, indeed!!! thank you!
- juandel
Sounds like you know australia well. Have you been to the blue mountains.
“eats tiny lambs” LOL.
Yes you are right I was referring to the white tailed spider. A friend of mine was living in a caravan till he suddenly reaslised they were all over the place.