production work
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- seed
I had always been under the impression that production work is the lowest on the totem pole in a design agency. Lower than a Jr Designer. Is this always true? Or is it just someone who implements technology instead of just concepting designs. I don't know as I have always worked in the IT industry so far. No offense to any production artists out there.
- ********0
I don't know either but I have a feeling it has to do with the size of the project and team.
Like I give a shit I ain't no monkey.
- swollenelbow0
without production artists all of the designers work wouldn't come out hot in the end.
remember your bleeds designers?! CMYK images! OUTLINE YOUR FONTS!!!
=)
- mayo0
i do production and writing and then some design and i'm quite happy. I don't feel as burnt out to do any personal art as i did in school, 3/4 of the way in a semester.
- ********0
Production is the lowest, but not necessairly a "low" job.
It makes sense to start in production so you hone your skills, and have a good idea of how designs are accomplished / visualized / produced. This way you will be armed with the necessairy information to direct production artists should you ever become an art or creative director. In other words, it's a necessary skill imo.
- ********0
I do my own production
I am the alpha and the omega
- chimchim0
hey rand
love your work man - I have never really looked at it.. but yesterday I flipped through your massive collection of goodness!
- tny0
i am rand
- chimchim0
hahahahahahah
uh huh!
- canuck0
I am a production artist today. Pathing a wack load of gift basket images for some brochure. Highly uncreative, very boring work.
- jakeyj0
what, exactly, does a production artist do?
- t_rock0
it's true... you can learn a lot about design from working on the production side first. you quickly learn how poorly the sr. designers create files. of course, now I'm the one handing files off to the intern. good times... good times...
- tim5250
i rather do my own production work as well. keeps me from getting lazy and sloppy.
- tkmeister0
i don't like doing my own production. it's good to know the technical details and what not, but i can't be bothered by it too much.
also, if you become too hands on, it's hard to move up to CD, AD position.
- seed0
I am currently a web designer / developer. I had an interview at a place that saw me fitting in 'production' instead of a pure design postion as I don't have any print or conceptual work samples and they thought my design/tech skill would be a good bridge between creative and tech. I don't really see how production could be a lowly position as you are implementing all the technology.
- ribit0
could be worse, you could be doing editorial production.... another story, and another story, and another story sort of like the last story...
- mayo0
when i was going to school, my classmates used to swear that they would never do production whereas I took anything that would teach me something. Out of that class, I only know one other person who currently has a job (as far as I know) and it's like mine: boss gives me some chicken-scratch on a napkin or PostIt note and I have to make the design happen. while others may see no glory in it, i see no shame in it either.
- kld0
Unfortunately some places see production designers as just that, no chance for moving up into a design position.
One guy I graduated with was in production before returning to school(GD major) and he's still doing production.
If you do it try to get some freelance design work to keep your portfolio fresh.
- seed0
The thing I think is weird is that I would be doing the exact same work as I am doing now. Right now at my current job and another that I could get I am a few months away from being a Senior IT Analyst (Web Designer / Developer). So to do the same thing and be considered at the bottom of the design heirarchy seems strange. I think there they have one person only concepting and others to do all the technical work. Only developing someone elses ideas could get boring.
- scarabin0
at our studio production stuff is mostly done by interns
slave labor
- dippy0
scarabin, does "production stuff" refer to grunt work like setting bleeds, making PDFs, checking colors, and all that stuff? Or does it include retouching, compositing, masking, etc?