Hello. Just wanted to share my experience so far and see how other people deal with something similar. I did illustration and graphic design for about 4-5 years. Now I am in modeling major and learning a lot of 3D. I love it, but now I am torn apart between 3D and drawing. I want to keep practicing drawing, but it takes showbox a lot of my time, so I cannot focus completely on 3D as much as I could have. It also does not help that 3D takes way less effort than drawing, but at the same time looks way better in most cases. I am not sure where to go career wise. I want to go concept art, environment, 3D modeling. I still need good 2D skills. Is anyone having similar experience? usps tracking
3D and 2D go hand in hand at the end of the day, as in they bounce off each other they dont relate 1:1 but getting better at one will help the other. as far as career wise thats something you’re going to have to decide. But if you like 3D more than 2D and you feel like you get better results with 3D sounds like you already know your answer. I will warn you though production ready stuff in 3D is a lot more than you think you say its simpler than 2D, but have you considered all you really need to learn? Proper re topology for animation, Proper uvs, texturing Hair cards, cloth simulations, visual effects, blend shapes, rigging, weight mapping, animation and how to put it in a game engine. No you dont have to learn all of these but you will have to learn a handful.
As far as job choices generalist have to be able to do a bit of everything, environment is probably your best bet but that can be a bit of everything as well, and 3D concept artist are probably one of the hardest positions to get into but the most freedom and most fun.
For me I started out in graphic design but my heart wasn’t in it, the reality was that I would probably get stuck designing logos for corporate schmucks and I really didn’t want to do that, I had done a bit of 3D animatoin in high school and I loved it. Even though going the graphic design route was probably the safer choice I couldnt bring myself to settle and here I am 4 years into 3D, still with no job and I havent regretted it one second. Its hard it takes a lot of work and I am still learning but I love sculpting.
At the end of the day, you make art because you love it so im sure you will find a way to do both. I would say whatever you choose as a career do the other in your spare time. I hope this helps and im sure whatever you chose is the right choice.