I was simply requesting a resume to review before going any further. outburst like this our why we have a hiring process. I also want to point out to you your 'game" did not work, it said I was using IE and told me to get Firefox or something else. A web based "game" is not a professional portfolio. If you had sent me a resume as requested, I could of reviewed it, if I decided to consider you, I would of called you for a interview and explained everything to you during the interview process. This is a standard SOP for all businesses.
Block Builder 2 art is from this website + from my self and considered an unfinished project. The project will hopefully be finished soon. Older projects you speak of are from a few years back when we first tired to enter the field doing 3D work and nearly went bankrupt due to poor judgment on my part investing in so called "no programming required" game engines. My honest suggestion though would be schedule an appointment with me to discuss the intern program. Not knowing the whole story typically leads to false statements or misunderstandings which results in ignorance. Ironically this is why there is no such thing as a stupid question in my opinion. If you do not simply know something that fine but then you need to ask. However, if someone does not know but try’s to fill in the gaps with out confirming information, well that’s just plain ignorance. I hope that makes sense and please feel free to schedule an appointment via Email. I will be fairly busy next week but I will try to make time if needed.
My apologies, I thought I included their license plus credit in the software but it must be on the other version. I will take the software down temporally until this problem is fixed. However, the image has not changed, you may have mistaken it for block builder. Block Builder 2 is the sequal to Block Builder.
Edit:
I see the problem now, I did not post the download link for Block Builder 1 as I intended. I posted the link for Block Builder2, so a minor mishap. thanks for point this out, It will be fixed.
Im not a artist but Ill pass this link a long to Constance in our art department. It's likely Nik painted it to replicate the image. Which is fairly common. I mean look at the Mona Lisa, fairly common image repainted several times by several people. But I'm pretty sure Nik did not copy the image as you suggest. Nik's a pretty good kid and fairly talented.
It occurred to me some people have not attended college yet so they may not understand how internships work. An internship is like obtaining a job but typically unpaid; you must go through an interview process in order to be accepted. Once accepted you will earn college credits typically toward your degree or major. College credits on average cost roughly 400 to 1200 dollars per credit hour. This is money you will pay toward your education. Internships give you college credits but with out the expense. However, there is a large expense for the company whom employees you as an intern. Standard fee for simply hiring an intern is around $1200 to $3000 in expenses. However, this expense will vary form company to company. The major expense involved with internships for a company is processing your application and training the intern. Because it is such a large expense to hire an intern, typical internship is unpaid.
Some of the notable benefits of internships are free college credits, real life experience; strengthen your portfolio and other benefits. Most universities or larger college require you complete a internship before graduation. Some colleges as well charge you for the internship but require it as well. My college required I complete a 40 hour internship program before graduation and I had to pay an addition expense of $1500 for the internship to count toward my degree; this expense of course if figured in your tuition fees & expenses typically. Ironically it’s also hard to find an internship related to your field or major. My internship was spent working at a local flea market bookkeeping as apart of my business degree. My other degrees did not require an internship but I could have taken one if I could find a company willing to accept me.
Perhaps the biggest benefit to internships is the possibility of being hired full time once it’s completed. Unfortunately the company I performed my internship with was not hiring. However, your claim of “slave labor” is partially true. Interns do work for free but they also learn valuable experience they will apply toward their real career. Today as mentioned before, I held a meeting with my interns to go over the current project they are working on. We discussed free lancing and how to get work in the field. They were all shocked when I explained to them how things typically work in the field and what to expect payment wise vs. working for a company such as UOK Software. We also discussed taxes, IRS and various other things people do not consider when doing free lance work. The point of are internship is to help the intern build a strong portfolio and educate them about the field in general so they know what to expect.
If you consider internships a scam, well it must be a super good scam because my interns are all earning college credits while working with us currently. To honestly understand an internship its best if you’re in college before you try to cast judgment. I designed the program to help college students obtain careers in this field. But if you strongly feel that internship programs are a scam, well I recommend you never attend college then or get a degree that requires you complete an internship.
OGA is where I get a lot of my concept art because it’s a great place to get free art but we do use other sites as well. Also like to state I am still building the website and the gallery is not completed. I’m sorry you feel as though this is a scam but I honestly have to ask you a simple question which I know you could not completely answer. The question would be what all is involved in making software? Feel free to post your answer but in the mean time please edit or remove your unprofessional post please. I think it’s great you have an opinion on the topic but please do not post false statements. Your claim is misleading and has no facts or true information to back your claim which makes me wonder why and how you can make such claims when you know so little about the internship program.
@ Bart
Thank you Bart, I must of over looked that, i'll correct it right away. Thank you.
This program is still fairly new. We are having a lot of success with it so far and the interns have progressed nicely. As for art to display I do have some art I could share but I want to wait until the project is completed before I reveal their work. Most of the intern projects are small projects designed to get them experience and help them understand software development before focusing on a specific area. A big misconception I’ve found with interns is they don’t know how much work is involved in creating software and they don’t know all the areas you can focus on. So we introduce them to different areas smoothly by giving them simple projects and coaching them along the way.
We now have several internal documents as well for all the interns to review once accepted to review so they will know each step to creating software. Also would like to point out most intern work will not be submitted to our publishers to review but it is possible if a intern and his/her team produce a fantastic project I would consider it and they would receive royalties for it. But I do not promise mass fortune or fame and can not promise an intern project or any project for that matter will be a huge hit. However, I want to display the intern’s art in the gallery and in fact I’m going to hold a meeting about this Friday to discuss it with them. If they agree to let us display their work, it will be displayed but I must ask them first out of respect for their work. So far we have only had a hand full of interns involved in the program but they did an amazing job and learned a lot when it was completed. Also note we only do 2D art and not 3D. I hope this answers your questions. Thank you.
Not sure what you mean on last one but you must be accepted
@ Red
Lol I'm not the art director, Im just the guy who does all the busy work lol My focus is programing but I posted it here because I think a few people would be interested in the oppertunity. How the program works is they take the intern and give him/her a small project to work on with others. The intern program is still fairly new but seems to be very helpful for the interns.
I was simply requesting a resume to review before going any further. outburst like this our why we have a hiring process. I also want to point out to you your 'game" did not work, it said I was using IE and told me to get Firefox or something else. A web based "game" is not a professional portfolio. If you had sent me a resume as requested, I could of reviewed it, if I decided to consider you, I would of called you for a interview and explained everything to you during the interview process. This is a standard SOP for all businesses.
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Block Builder 2 art is from this website + from my self and considered an unfinished project. The project will hopefully be finished soon. Older projects you speak of are from a few years back when we first tired to enter the field doing 3D work and nearly went bankrupt due to poor judgment on my part investing in so called "no programming required" game engines. My honest suggestion though would be schedule an appointment with me to discuss the intern program. Not knowing the whole story typically leads to false statements or misunderstandings which results in ignorance. Ironically this is why there is no such thing as a stupid question in my opinion. If you do not simply know something that fine but then you need to ask. However, if someone does not know but try’s to fill in the gaps with out confirming information, well that’s just plain ignorance. I hope that makes sense and please feel free to schedule an appointment via Email. I will be fairly busy next week but I will try to make time if needed.
My apologies, I thought I included their license plus credit in the software but it must be on the other version. I will take the software down temporally until this problem is fixed. However, the image has not changed, you may have mistaken it for block builder. Block Builder 2 is the sequal to Block Builder.
Edit:
I see the problem now, I did not post the download link for Block Builder 1 as I intended. I posted the link for Block Builder2, so a minor mishap. thanks for point this out, It will be fixed.
Im not a artist but Ill pass this link a long to Constance in our art department. It's likely Nik painted it to replicate the image. Which is fairly common. I mean look at the Mona Lisa, fairly common image repainted several times by several people. But I'm pretty sure Nik did not copy the image as you suggest. Nik's a pretty good kid and fairly talented.
How Internships Work (typically):
It occurred to me some people have not attended college yet so they may not understand how internships work. An internship is like obtaining a job but typically unpaid; you must go through an interview process in order to be accepted. Once accepted you will earn college credits typically toward your degree or major. College credits on average cost roughly 400 to 1200 dollars per credit hour. This is money you will pay toward your education. Internships give you college credits but with out the expense. However, there is a large expense for the company whom employees you as an intern. Standard fee for simply hiring an intern is around $1200 to $3000 in expenses. However, this expense will vary form company to company. The major expense involved with internships for a company is processing your application and training the intern. Because it is such a large expense to hire an intern, typical internship is unpaid.
Some of the notable benefits of internships are free college credits, real life experience; strengthen your portfolio and other benefits. Most universities or larger college require you complete a internship before graduation. Some colleges as well charge you for the internship but require it as well. My college required I complete a 40 hour internship program before graduation and I had to pay an addition expense of $1500 for the internship to count toward my degree; this expense of course if figured in your tuition fees & expenses typically. Ironically it’s also hard to find an internship related to your field or major. My internship was spent working at a local flea market bookkeeping as apart of my business degree. My other degrees did not require an internship but I could have taken one if I could find a company willing to accept me.
Perhaps the biggest benefit to internships is the possibility of being hired full time once it’s completed. Unfortunately the company I performed my internship with was not hiring. However, your claim of “slave labor” is partially true. Interns do work for free but they also learn valuable experience they will apply toward their real career. Today as mentioned before, I held a meeting with my interns to go over the current project they are working on. We discussed free lancing and how to get work in the field. They were all shocked when I explained to them how things typically work in the field and what to expect payment wise vs. working for a company such as UOK Software. We also discussed taxes, IRS and various other things people do not consider when doing free lance work. The point of are internship is to help the intern build a strong portfolio and educate them about the field in general so they know what to expect.
If you consider internships a scam, well it must be a super good scam because my interns are all earning college credits while working with us currently. To honestly understand an internship its best if you’re in college before you try to cast judgment. I designed the program to help college students obtain careers in this field. But if you strongly feel that internship programs are a scam, well I recommend you never attend college then or get a degree that requires you complete an internship.
OGA is where I get a lot of my concept art because it’s a great place to get free art but we do use other sites as well. Also like to state I am still building the website and the gallery is not completed. I’m sorry you feel as though this is a scam but I honestly have to ask you a simple question which I know you could not completely answer. The question would be what all is involved in making software? Feel free to post your answer but in the mean time please edit or remove your unprofessional post please. I think it’s great you have an opinion on the topic but please do not post false statements. Your claim is misleading and has no facts or true information to back your claim which makes me wonder why and how you can make such claims when you know so little about the internship program.
@ Bart
Thank you Bart, I must of over looked that, i'll correct it right away. Thank you.
Update:
I will be posting some of our intern Nik's work on the site today. Please feel free to check it out.
What?
This program is still fairly new. We are having a lot of success with it so far and the interns have progressed nicely. As for art to display I do have some art I could share but I want to wait until the project is completed before I reveal their work. Most of the intern projects are small projects designed to get them experience and help them understand software development before focusing on a specific area. A big misconception I’ve found with interns is they don’t know how much work is involved in creating software and they don’t know all the areas you can focus on. So we introduce them to different areas smoothly by giving them simple projects and coaching them along the way.
We now have several internal documents as well for all the interns to review once accepted to review so they will know each step to creating software. Also would like to point out most intern work will not be submitted to our publishers to review but it is possible if a intern and his/her team produce a fantastic project I would consider it and they would receive royalties for it. But I do not promise mass fortune or fame and can not promise an intern project or any project for that matter will be a huge hit. However, I want to display the intern’s art in the gallery and in fact I’m going to hold a meeting about this Friday to discuss it with them. If they agree to let us display their work, it will be displayed but I must ask them first out of respect for their work. So far we have only had a hand full of interns involved in the program but they did an amazing job and learned a lot when it was completed. Also note we only do 2D art and not 3D. I hope this answers your questions. Thank you.
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Not sure what you mean on last one but you must be accepted
@ Red
Lol I'm not the art director, Im just the guy who does all the busy work lol My focus is programing but I posted it here because I think a few people would be interested in the oppertunity. How the program works is they take the intern and give him/her a small project to work on with others. The intern program is still fairly new but seems to be very helpful for the interns.
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