A few years ago I went deep into an effort to make my own 3D animation company, all in-house software and everything from the ground up as much as possible.

I wanted to make the next Pixar, went far with the idea. Built a lot of working prototypes for the software we'd use all by myself. I built something I was pleased with and sought for a seed round and everything. I certainly don't know everything but I know way more than my fair share in graphics programming.

That's stellar experience and even with that I can't find any relevant graphics opportunities. I keep knocking on Pixar's door and they never have any open roles for the things we're looking for, and they never bite when they're open.

I work at Adobe now. Even here I'm not touching graphics :)

I'd love to hear someone else's take, because all I can conclude is that it's a saturated industry, it's a primarily academic industry (I don't have a degree), or I'm outside the industry network.

Send me an email - would love to have a conversation!

Not the person you replied to, but I have a friend looking for a graphics job in SF. Contact via your username at your workplace website?

Email should be in my profile - ben@beautiful.ai

I think it would be pretty good. Less employers needing graphics programming, but a lot less candidates. I've been trying to hire someone with some graphics programming experience and so far have had a lot of trouble finding candidates in SF.

Personally, I think it’s quite good, especially if you’re flexible about where you work. Getting practice and being good at enough linear algebra to understand graphics transforms thoroughly will help a lot. There are graphics jobs in web app developement, mobile/console/pc game studios, game engines, scientific computing and HPC, medicine, movie studios, third party software renderers, and lots and lots in the Bay Area giants like Facebook, Google, Apple, AMD & Nvidia.

You are shadowbanned. I didn't find an obvious reason when looking at your post history which is why I'm telling you.

How can you tell?

I assume when he posted that comment it was dead immediately. It had to be vouched to show up.

Ah right, thanks.

Construction industry. I'm having an upcoming project with making a web based 3d editor now, and before that I had an open offer for another construction industry 3d app. I also have a close friend who just finished a gig in the same line