{"id":174,"date":"2006-12-28T23:02:43","date_gmt":"2006-12-29T03:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rakkar.org\/blog\/?p=174"},"modified":"2006-12-28T23:02:43","modified_gmt":"2006-12-29T03:02:43","slug":"more-artist-interviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/12\/28\/more-artist-interviews\/","title":{"rendered":"More artist interviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tI&#8217;ve interviewed 6 lead or art directors in the last 2 days.<\/p>\n<p>The first guy seems honest and keeps his word.  But my super art friend Jeff said 50% when I passed along the website, which I assume is bad.  Pass.<\/p>\n<p>The second guy sounds very professional on the phone which I like.  But he said he&#8217;d get a quote back to me on art assets, and then didn&#8217;t.  Plus he wants between 95 and 100K a year which is just too high for an artist at a small company.  Pass.<\/p>\n<p>The 3rd guy I think can do the work, but lacks assertiveness and wouldn&#8217;t be able to manage people effectively.  Jeff said 50% when I asked him about the work quality.  It doesn&#8217;t look good to me either, but I never know if that&#8217;s because of the graphic engine or what.  Since Jeff said 50%. Pass.<\/p>\n<p>The 4th guy sounds professional and is more honest than the other guys I&#8217;ve spoken to.  His art looks good as well.  But he also seems slow, saying it would take between 1 and 2 weeks to model a star destroyer, depending on the amount of detail.  He&#8217;s also weak at 2D art, which is something I need.  By slow I mean giving longer estimates than the other guys.  I don&#8217;t know if 1-2 weeks is actually slow.  He sounds truthful and if that&#8217;s how long it takes then that is how long it takes.  For the 2D art I&#8217;ll just have to find workarounds, if I do indeed go with him.<\/p>\n<p>The 5th guy spent the first 15 minutes of the interview complaining about his current managers and also only has 2 years of experience.  I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll hire him, except as a junior artist and then only if a more senior artist recommends him.  His only redeeming factor is that he&#8217;s cheap, and going for cheap has wasted more money than it&#8217;s saved with programmers.  Pass.<\/p>\n<p>The 6th guy said on his resume that he had extensive experience with C\/C++, but on the phone said he wasn&#8217;t a programmer at all.  The claimed experience came from looking at code or something.  I didn&#8217;t get a clear answer on that.  Everything he said I liked, including his time estimate (1 week for star destroyer), but since he lied on his resume for all I know he lied during the interview too.  Pass.<\/p>\n<p>Got another guy tomorrow, best looking art so far.  Hopefully that goes well.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve interviewed 6 lead or art directors in the last 2 days. The first guy seems honest and keeps his word. But my super art friend Jeff said 50% when I passed along the website, which I assume is bad. Pass. The second guy sounds very professional on the phone which I like. But he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}