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The studio visit today would be 3E Entertainment Studio, Shanghai. Unlike the other studios we visited, 3E Studios is an outsourced studio. Outsourced studios are simple studios that do not make their own games, but instead, help in the making or completion of games from bigger companies. 3E Studios had worked with companies like Ubisoft and created award winning work. Despite being an outsourced studio, 3E Studios had been quite successful in the past 8 years.
The tools that are used in 3E Studios would be 3D Studio Max, Z-Brush, MAYA and Photoshop. These are the main programs that the artists working in the studio work. The studio is actually split into many sections that specialize in a different field, such as environmental creation / level creation, character creation, animation, props creation, etc. With only 100 over artists, 3E studios currently work on 7-8 projects at a single time, and around 20-30 projects completed in a year.
3E studios mainly work on AAA games, the really big games for consoles. They also work on mobile games sometime and then. Some games they worked on would be the Tom Clancy Series, and the Gears of War Series.
If one wants to work in the studio, he/she just have to pass a test that is made by the studio. How good an artist is in the studios will depend on what rank he/she is. In the studio, each artist starts and are ranked from level 1 to level 12. Usually level 1 artists will work on small items such as props for the environment. As you advance up the ranks, you responsibility gets higher and higher, which also means more pay.
An advice from the manager of 3E Entertainment Studios, Shanghai, if you want to be a successful game designer, always start out small. Take any opportunity you can and use these opportunities to create relationships with other people and try to grab even larger scale opportunities. All the effort that you put in will pay off someday.
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