Scottish Elises

April 2005, the company I was workin for (VIS Entertainment) went into liquidation. The next company I joined (Visual Sciences) went into liquidation last Feb , an now today guess what. DC Studios just went into liquidation B@$tards owe over 2k too!!! I am soo fooked!

Fink I really need to get out the games industry, suggestions on a post card please!


scott

try DVA
they are sh*t hot on web stuff
with ur graphics eye, u could cross train?

Hey Scott, sorry to hear about DC what was it you did there?

A guy at my work has gone through the same. Every games company he has worked at has gone bust so he decided not to waste any more time in the industry and got out.

PhilA wrote:try DVA
they are sh*t hot on web stuff
with ur graphics eye, u could cross train?

This place Phil?
http://www.dva.co.uk/home/contact.asp
They're in Hampshire tho. You tryin to get rid of me?

The_Rossatron wrote:Hey Scott, sorry to hear about DC what was it you did there?

Cheers m8. I do the 3D/2D graphics etc. Any visual stuff basically.

simon wrote:A guy at my work has gone through the same. Every games company he has worked at has gone bust so he decided not to waste any more time in the industry and got out.

Couldn't agree more. But as an artist wanting to stay in Dundee or at least Scotland, my options are a bit more limited. You code monkeys are simply in more demand

Time for me to start looking outside the 'box'! What ever that means

scott

Scotty, I'm still waiting for your CV and portfolio

Oddly enough my CV + reel is suddenly very up to date! PM me ur address an it'll be winging its way north asap!

scott

Scott; What sort of things did you draw/model for DC?

Well at DC I did dozens of little 2D animations like this based on a kids TV series for a Nintendo DS game.


That's pretty unusual stuff for me tho, normally it's 3D like the job before that for Battlefield2 Xbox360


Russian Hind


BlackHawk recon version


scott

tough break dude.


BTW the above is f*ckin A!!!! You said it was bargain bin games!! BF2!

sorry to hear that mate, tried looking on :-

http://www.realtimeworlds.com/jobs.htm?

couple of graphics jobs there, although I must confess I know nowt about nowt!

Best of luck,

Greg

Ouch, commiserations Scott! Just got the following email from our studio manager:

"Unfortunately it seems that as of today, DC Studios in Glasgow/Edinburgh has closed, making 29 folk redundant. DC have been around for a number of years, most recently completing development of State of Emergency 2. They also have a Canadian office which is believed to be unaffected.

Obviously yet another sad blow to the Scottish games industry... but it's also another opportunity for us to pick up some good people, so we're going through on Monday to present to the staff. There should be an email going round an ex-DC staff mailing list, but if there's anyone there you know, could you take a minute to give them a shout and recommend they come along to Room 104 of Glasgow's Central Hotel, for 3pm this Monday, to find out more about RTW. Thanks."

However, judging from your track record it seems you're cursed, so please don't apply here thanks. (jk)

Bennicus,

Do you work at Realtime? I take it you're the Elise owner Jonathon told me about? I used to work there BTW. Oh, and tell BillyT he's a c*ck from me

Steve

Sanjoy wrote:tough break dude.


BTW the above is f*ckin A!!!! You said it was bargain bin games!! BF2!

Cheers mate but I should clarify... workin in 3D is typical for me, workin on AAA next gen titles aint I've got a list as long as ur arm of games I've worked on that were canned even before they got to the bargain bin!! - not my fault tho, honest gov!! (I really don't sell myself well do I )

Re: Real Time... cheers guys, looks like John Duthie has been busy typin!! (know him well from a couple of other now liquidated companies!) I've got a few mates who work there, am gonna apply, see what happens.

Steve! Good news about ur car!

Scott

Scott,
Really sorry to hear this. If you are looking to go outside the box we are looking for Architectural visualisation animators