
The Risk and Reward of Not Looking Like Everyone Else
Character design is a real job? The first professional job I ever did was a character design for an extremely large beer company back in the 80’s. As a college student it was a very big deal. They handed me a fat check along with a contract and samples of a beer they hadn’t even released. I had no idea at the time that there were people who actually did this type of work for a living but I knew right away this was the life for me. A few years later I started my own business