Transitioning from solo projects to working as part of a large team can be tricky to navigate. Creating collaboratively requires excellent communication, tact, empathy, ego management, and a host of other skills that can make the difference between being someone that pushes the team forwards and someone who holds it back. If you get it right, there’s a huge amount to be gained both personally and professionally from working as part of a pipeline.
A senior concept artist in video game development, sees working on a pipeline as an opportunity to grow in ways that might be left undeveloped if you only ever work alone. A shift in perspective is needed, though. “On a team, the artwork doesn't belong to just one person, it belongs to the project as a whole, so a level of conformity is expected," he says. "It's likely
