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Blender Guru is Hiring!

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Blender Guru is expanding! In order to better serve the blender community, I am looking for two blender artists to join the Blender Guru team to assist in future projects and developments.

Role

You will act as a general 3d artist and assist in the production of assets for Blender Guru. You will work from home and communicate with me via Skype. Location is not important.

Day-to-day tasks will include:

  • Modelling assets (hard surface and organic)
  • Creating environments
  • Creating promotional images
  • Answering support questions from the blender community

Salary & Contract

Your contract is for 3-months, after which you may be offered a permanent position based on your work during that time. You will work 8 hours a day, Monday to Friday from your home.

The salary is $5,000-$8,000 USD for the 3 month contract, based on your experience and suitability for the job.

Requirements

To be applicable for this job, you must:

  • Be at least 18 years of age
  • Speak English
  • Meet the legal requirements for work in your country
  • Have an internet connection

Professional experience in the field of 3d is not required but highly regarded.

Portfolio

You must have a portfolio or demo reel to apply this role. Your success in being selected for the position is almost entirely dependant on your portfolio, so make sure it contains your best work.

Your portfolio can be images or video and must be hosted online. If you need portfolio hosting, I recommend Carbonmade.

Highly regarded skills

These skills are not required, but you will be looked favourably upon if your portfolio includes them:

  • Architectural modelling and rendering (furniture, complete scenes etc.)
  • Car modelling and rendering
  • Character modelling, texturing and rigging

Apply

Sorry, this job opening is now closed. The deadline for new applications was July 17th, 2012.

If you submitted an application and did not receive a reply, please email support@blenderguru.com.

About Andrew Price

User of Blender for 9+ years. I've written tutorials for 3d World Magazine and spoken at three Blender conferences. My goal is to help artists get employed in the industry by making training accessible and easy to understand. I'm an Aussie and I live in South Korea ;)
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  • http://www.facebook.com/connor.schilling.9 Connor Schilling

    Will you take volunteering? I’m not after money DX

  • http://www.facebook.com/venky.funniest Venky Funniest

    7:20 am

    My Second Blender Animation Using Cycles Render engine <3

    http://youtu.be/6sbG5JFsgj0

  • http://www.facebook.com/venky.funniest Venky Funniest

    Am The Last & Late’st :D

  • John

    Oh god, i have being late at school; late for homeworks, classworks, tests, exams. Am even late just to visit internet. Now i missed a good opportunity. Wel i quess it wasnt for me anyway. Wel goodluck to those who applied enjoy your blender ”3D” three dimensional 3month journey!!!

  • lander

    damn…..how could i ever misssss this.
    Price, is there another opportunity coming?
    am looking forward to it.

  • http://www.blenderfreak.com Pavel Křupala

    What a pitty I missed it too :/

  • http://www.john-mcduffie.com/blog/ John

    I always find out about these things too late. :(

  • Bruno de Oliveira

    I’m out too. =(
    Good lucky for everyone =)

    • Ashwin

      If Andrew rejected your portfolio, we are getting some really good Blendergurus for sure!

  • Chris

    Are the results out?

    • Jorge Santos

      The result is not out yet, but I already get an email telling me that my work was “reviewed, bu was selected for further consideration”.

      So, I’m out, good lock for who is still running.

      • Jorge Santos

        Correcting my previous message, I’m NOT selected for further consideration.

  • Kiran

    oops… Its too late.. I should have come here earlier… Is it over? I couldn’t apply….Hope there is a next time.

  • Bruno de Oliveira

    well, this time it was not for me, my portfolio was not enough, the Carbonmade support only small images,
    Images on deviantart are really better.

    http://brunoikari.deviantart.com/gallery/

    =(

    • Vasanth

      Great job Bruno :)

  • http://mr-vendy.deviantart.com/ Vendy

    Well,,, I just tried to send email to the support address but it failed,,,

    • Brian Truhlar

      On his twitter he says he knows about this, and is trying to fix it

      • http://mr-vendy.deviantart.com/ Vendy

        Yes it’s all fine now,,,

  • http://mr-vendy.deviantart.com/ Vendy

    @Brian Truhlar
    Same here,,,I tried to send the application but nothing happened,,,

  • Brian Truhlar

    It seems like something is going wrong with the server. I tried submitting my application twice, and both times it got stuck at submit. Then I tried emailing about the problem to the support address, and I wasn’t able to send the email either…

  • Demetrius

    LOL not even gonna try to ask

  • Bhavin

    you didn’t even called me for an interview, please, i really wanna work with you.

  • AndyCalauor

    Hi Andrew,

    I would really love to improve my skills as a digital artist, and by working with you i’ll think i will improve greatly with your guidance.

    Good luck to all who applied

  • Anil ks

    Hi andrews,

    Iam just learning blender, i am not interested in money. If you have some work i will do it for free at my free time after coming from office. Main thing is to learn, i want to learn , i have gone through a lot of tutorial , but i feel when you do something really on some project you learn things much better. So if you have any work just let me know .

  • http://jeremydeighan.wordpress.com/ Jeremy Deighan

    I’ve applied! Good luck to everyone!

    Jeremy

  • http://stringhamd.wordpress.com DramaKing

    Good luck to all the applicants. I would apply for a position if college didn’t get in the way.

  • NathanWilkinson

    Hi Andrew, my name is Nathan Wilkinson and I meet every requirement except for one, which is my age. I am 15 now but have used blender for about 6 years now and no all the tricks of the trade so to speak. You have already recognized some of my work in previous competitions, and you seem to like it. I was wondering if we could work something out.

    Thank You for your time.

  • Dominick Villano

    Same here, too young.
    Great work Andrew!

  • SaikaFu

    WOW~~~

    This a very good job for me ~~good pay and good working conditions

    this is really fantastic~~

  • http://ki-omniarts.de Ki

    Why Skype? I don’t use such an evil software. And you shouldn’t tell people that they should use it.

    • David

      Yeah Right!
      Maybe he should also pay in potatoes since money is evil.
      Oh please…

      • luca

        haha fantastic answer…however,besides the ideological reasons, skype is pretty heavy, there are more efficient solutions imo.
        In any case he’s the employer, he gets to decide whatever he needs.

  • Samuel

    Nice! Please let us know who you hire!!! :) And…. please, I still only want you doing the tutorials :) just saying :)

  • Boris

    That is a lot of dosh a month. Did you win the lottery Andrew? :D

    • joeyisdabestatblending

      That is $20,000 a year, not a great salary. (of course I am comparing it to engineer starting salaries. {$80,000} so I am a little biased here)

      • Boris

        Yeah, I didn’t read it that thoroughly. I thought it was 5-8k /month. :)

        And I guess I need to relocate. I’ll get just about halfway to $80k a year with my fresh degree around here. :(

  • Bhavin

    Applied, I would love to work with you Andrew, I’ll work full time with pleasure.

  • bettflasche

    Don’t bite me, but:

    Must the works have been made with Blender, or is Maya OK?

    I know some freelance guy who just finished a job as modeling supervisor on a cinema animation movie, who might be interested, but he works with ZBrush and Maya.

    • Jurek

      The make Blender Tutoriels so you can answer your question by your self i think….

      • guest

        It is not too hard to transfer between software. I transferred to MAYA untill I realized how much better Blender was.

        Modelling is pretty much the same in any software package.

    • http://stringhamd.wordpress.com DramaKing

      I would like to point out that a modeling sup (unless he is hard up for work) would not be enticed by this offer. The pay isn’t all that bad necessarily, but it’s well below studio pay rates.

  • Azmat azeemi

    only 18 no more?????????????????

  • An

    If only I were 18 years old and skilled, huh? :) Oh well… I would’ve loved the money for school stuff. (Though even if I am 18, I don’t have a portfolio and skills and such. :| )
    And hey…
    This means more tutorials, right? :D Can’t wait.

  • http://panduaji.com Panduaji

    WOW! Awesome! I just can reshare this news :D

  • Dave

    Am I allowed to remember on this:
    http://www.blenderguru.com/calling-all-naive-artists
    xD

    BTW looking really forward to a good car tutorial.
    And Andrew I think that their is nobody else who can explain the tutorials as good as you do.

  • Blender Alpha

    I am sorry Andrew but I have to protest against 18 or older (because I am 10).

    First off, I think I am pretty good my self, check out my work here.

    http://cgcookie.com/blender/profile/blender%20alpha

    I am home schooled (So I don’t have to much homework),

    I am american,

    And I could use the money.

    I will get a portfolio A.S.A.P, but please change the 18 or older. Besides you could use me! thanks :)

    • HolyEnigma

      Its not that Andrew has anything against young people,
      but Child labor laws can get people into trouble. :)

      • Ben McCormcik

        Dang, turns out you can be under fifteen if you work from home. (In Arizona anyways) Well missed out on that, well he did still say 18 or older. : /

    • http://be.net/jonathanlampel Jonathan Lampel

      Sorry good sir, but the 18 limit is there for a reason. Also, your pictures are taken from followed tutorials so I don’t think that shows much. Even if I wasn’t 16, My portfolio is still far from what Andrew is looking for: be.net/jonathanlampel

      Take a look at what he wants: Professional experience, character modeling and rigging, car modeling, and architectural experience.

      Really, I think it’s great that you are doing good at such a young age, but you (and I) are just not ready and don’t have the experience. I know its a tough pill to swallow, but its true.

      Keep working hard, improving, and having fun, and you’ll be much better before you know it.

      Please don’t take this offensively, but please understand that he wants 18+ for a reason.

      • Blender Alpha

        Its OK Jonathon, I’ve learned to take constructive critisim if I am spelling that right :) . I understand child labor laws and that i am not at Andrew’s skill level, but it was worth a shot. I think I’ll wait till I am older (and better) to sign up. Just hope that the job is still opened :) . Oh yeah thanks for the comment on my art work, I appreciate it :) Your stuff isn’t too bad either:)
        So yeah I have way to many smiley faces :) there it is again! :)

    • TheElwolf

      He is not being picky or anything.
      I’m pretty sure It has something to do with legal issue.

      Keep it up though, your talent will be amazing 8 years from now.

    • Jurek

      lolz

    • AllenArt

      18, because legally a 10 year old (or anyone under 15) can’t work in the United States ;) .

    • Saika

      He can’t change it, It’s the law.

    • Ray Cornelius

      I do believe the united states government has it so that you must be 16 to have a job.

  • Blender Alpha

    Why 18 or older? darnet!!

  • Jorge Santos

    Dear Andrew,

    This is a great idea. I would like to apply for this, but I don’t have portfolio.

    That is not because I’m new on blender, but because I have other activity (that pay the bills) and 3d is a hobby. But I don’t mind to do 3d as main activity and the other thing as hobby.

    Probably there is many people is this situation, so I would like to suggest:

    -Give a task for people (like me) to do. Maybe many people don’t have the experience, but have have the ability to do it.

    This is just a suggestion, whatever you decide would be great, but this could be a chance for people that don’t “work” 40h per week with blender to run for this opportunity

    • Marcus

      I have the same situation … I feel very sad because I can not do what I like … I think this is an excellent opportunity to grow and learn as you say unfortunately have to pay bills so you do other activities. Hopefully it again given the opportunity I would like to at least participate …. Greetings to all and congratulations to Mr. Andrew because although I do not speak English understand all your video tutorials to perfection … :)

  • http://www.blendermaniacs.blogspot.com Tio Ilmo

    Great and Smart Guru,

    Are you becoming a new Bill Gates? Congratulations for improving your site and your business. I hope the free part of your activities also improve, because we like your work a lot, but recently we have to wait much time to see a new tutorial at Blender Guru site.

    Suggestions for improve your site:
    – Create short free tutorials about Blender’s new features (less than 10 minutes)
    – Create tips section to teach how to save time using Blender
    – Create a community Gallery section
    – Improve the competitions’ statistics (something like Pxleyes.com does)
    – Blender Models database for free and paid download

    Thanks

    Tio Ilmo (I have two dogs called Hip and Hope) ;)

  • http://Washington Jonathan Lampel

    Darn my young age. I have been trying to get work for quite a while now (not just CG work either) and it is always the same: you have to be 18. Well, I guess it is understandable, just very disappointing.

    I suppose the plus side is that I can improve my portfolio by the time you hire again.

    Best of luck, I hope you get quality people.

    • http://be.net/jonathanlampel Jonathan Lampel

      Oh sorry, I filled in the wrong site. I don’t think it matters, but just in case.

  • http://www.timothyadowns.com Timothy Downs

    You’ll get my app soon. I just need to get some of my renders and other things uploaded.

  • greg p

    Ahhhhh, if only I didn’t suck quite so much at Blender! Then I definitely would apply.
    Talk about a dream job for some lucky Blenderhead, you lucky people.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soIIWU2Ec8I Eagleshadow

    Would be great if you provided the example of the level of quality and expertise expected in the portfolio and the Day-to-day tasks that you expect a person to perform.

  • http://www.chrisfolea.com Magiciandude

    Applied.
    Can’t guarantee I’ll be able to work full time, but it can’t hurt to apply!

  • http://ossworldstudio.blogspot.com/ Anemotion

    WOW Andrew. This is an AMAZING opportunity for those who need the exposure to some REAL work in 3D. If only I were better at 3D……

  • rooster

    definetly big stuff going on here :)

  • Jeff

    Haha, I thought the title said Blender Guru was “hiding”, time for more coffee :) Good luck applicants, working with Andrew would be awesome.

  • Patrick

    AAAAAAAArgh If only I had some more time I would definetly apply!
    I have some nice stuff… stuck there because of the leak of time.
    Such as a human character, rigged but not textured.
    some mouse characters, rigged textured, with their cave and accessories, Unanimated.
    A church 3d “scanned” for UNESCO.

    Well, hopefully I’ll learn something more from the new Blender Gurus :D D

  • FreeMind

    Before applying, I’d like to ask:
    What is the workload? How much in what time would a person have to do?

    • Necror

      You will work 8 hours a day, Monday to Friday from your home.

  • El_Member

    I wish I had more experience in Blender. Good luck to everyone :)

  • Alex

    Wow, that’s awesome. I’d apply instantly if I’d be old enough and needn’t go to school.
    Good luck to everyone else :)

    • amine

      Same here !

      • Andrew Price’s Son

        Same here :(

    • guest

      Same here.

    • louis boucquet

      same here:)(

    • core

      that is so awesome i would apply but i just started learning about blender good luck everyone else