Hi, everyone! It’s really nice to meet you all. My name is Mateus and I’m an indie game developer. During the last six years I designed, developed and published four titles on every modern platform currently available in the market (PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series S/X and Nintendo Switch). However, at the start of 2023 I had a small “breakthrough” and I started to want to leave the indie scene and start working for an AAA company as a regular employee. Choosing a field wasn’t hard, since I’ve always been fascinated with realtime VFX, so I went ahead and started to do some research before buying courses, digging for resources, etc. The problem is that I looked at about 60 AAA studios websites and about 90% of them had available positions for VFX artists, but literally all of them required 2-5 years of experience… So my question is: Is it possible to enter the games industry without prior experience? I mean, even if I study for months or years and actually become a good VFX artist, how am I going to meet such a requirement?