seem like there is not much information on game art around here. ok i have not been looking at any Malaysian Game industry just till now so i have no idie how thing are going, but i bees checking out how thing are like at the USA side, and i know a few friend that work in the game industry, think there is one part of the game job that is missing here, the 2d artist job. which some thing have to working in to the 3d pipeline as texture artist, but most of the time they are the concept artist. and there is the 3d artist part. the one that model the characters, building , trees bla bla bla.

as for avice that i got from pepole that working in game industry, about all of them say geting a game design degree is a wast of time, if you like game programing get a computer science degree, cos you will be programing all day long, as for the 3d artist get a fine art degree and have a solid foundation in art. as for the 3d app learn it off the internet or just read the menue or get video tutorial for it that how i learn 3d by the way.

so a game design degree is not needed But a " Degree" of some type is need if you are planing on working out side of Malaysia. not really for getting the job But for the Work permit to work there.

nevic can you say what game asset have you work on ? or it all cover under NDA ?

By the way some one may want to update the fist post as 3dbuzz got sell video Tutorial on XNA programing.

oh there one more thing i want to ask are there any local game moding comunity here that use Unreal Engine 3 ?

oh and for any one that want to have a try on 3d game art or 2d concept art check out this side and enter they contest http://www.gameartisans.org/forums/index.php

they yearly contest site, this is the big one cos you are compiting agines the world, not agines nOOb but industry verterens ie: the pepolke that work for Epic games, Blizzard, id soft. the last contest winner got a free dinner with the guy from Blizzard how cool is that (and of cos $$$$ price)
http://www.gameartisans.org/dominancewar/index.htm
yes i have enter that contest and got toasted very bad. going to get ready for next year. this time aming to get in to the top 20..

Thk for reading.