Produced By - Insight #7 - Tomas Miguel: The Importance of Finding Your Life Purpose
Episode Date: June 2, 2023Tomás Miguel is a London based visual effects graduate working as a Customer Support Engineer at Foundry. Tomás left Portugal to pursue a VFX education in London. University taught him the core skil...ls of the VFX pipeline and he specialized in his favourite, Texturing. Becoming a texture artist was his career goal until Foundry, a creative software development company, offered him the opportunity to contribute to the industry-standard texturing software, Mari. Before joining Foundry, he worked as a runner in a VFX powerhouse and shares his experience working towards in-house development. Throughout this episode, Tomás also discusses aligning your career with personal creative projects and other goals. Join us to learn more about VFX, how Tomás made it from Portugal to a career in London with no prior background, and get inspired to overcome unexpected obstacles in your way. Connect with Tomás: https://linktr.ee/tomasmiguel Topics: Introduction Background University experience VFX course VFX goals VFX software Getting into the industry Unexpected obstacle First job Second job Intro to VFX Favourite projects More about the company Quotes: "You gotta be aware you'll have to take side tracks and develop your foundations from time to time. It's the only way to achieve your higher goals.” “I try to create the least resistance between the present and future me, who is growing in key aspects of life, like happiness, connection, and most importantly, has a creative output." “Many people say it's not what you know, It's who you know, and there's some truth to that.” Connect with the podcaster: https://tomasloucky.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomasloucky/ https://www.instagram.com/thisistommen/ Follow the podcast: 🌐 Website: https://produced-by-podcast.com 🔗 Links: https://linktr.ee/produced_by 💬 Contact: https://produced-by-podcast.com/contact 📷 Instagram: https://instagram.com/produced_by_podcast 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT5LHnM6YCaeVzIr0WatOsw ✉️ Email: podcast.produced.by@gmail.com Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/produced-by/id1684669642 🎙️ About Produced By Podcast: Produced By brings you exciting stories of brave people who set out to build careers in competitive fields despite often challenging circumstances. Whether you are interested in creative industries, personal development or want to have some fun, enter the spotlight along with our guests and get inspired. Listen to people coming from all parts of the world, diverse fields of expertise and different levels of careers. So join us to follow their journeys, learn from life experience and embark on a great adventure. 🤩 If you enjoy listening to the podcast, please, leave a review on your podcast app, subscribe or share it with your friends. You can also send us a message and share any feedback, advice and tips for guests. 📭 Subscribe at https://produced-by-podcast.com/subscribe so that you don't miss out! #producedbypodcast #producedby #enterthespotlight Enjoy! Connect with Tomas:X: https://x.com/TomasLouckyStan: https://stan.store/TommenLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomasloucky/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thisistommen/Unproduced:Newsletter: https://unproduced.substack.comYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@unproducednotesSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033Ddo8ibDlLYoaP7FFLIWMore:Links: https://linktr.ee/produced_byNewsletter: https://producednewsletter.substack.com/The Podcast Club: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/25420030/Tools & gear that support the show:Metricool: https://f.mtr.cool/HRJBZKRiverside: https://riverside.sjv.io/vDnDodFavikon: https://www.favikon.com?fpr=tommenRa Optics: https://ra-optics.myshopify.com/discount/TOMMEN?rfsn=8803777.591d19JamX: https://jamx.ai/podcasters-offer?ref_id=e02d48af-ef66-4e76-b804-c2e8d282a8bfSome links are affiliate links, which means I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. If you find them useful, using these links helps keep the podcast running. Thank you! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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So how do you look back at the experience at university?
Did you enjoy it? Did you learn a lot?
Yeah, I very much enjoyed it. Very much learned a lot.
Quite chaotic.
I'd say, looking forwards, when you're first starting uni and coming to London,
you're like, oh, this is going to be extremely high grade.
And it was in many ways, especially in the terms of the artwork and the facilities.
But obviously, there's a lot of gaps in something like visual.
it's hard to be able to, for a few teachers to be able to cover every part of it.
So I think looking back, what I learned the most was to learn on my own, which I suppose is
what uni is all about making something of yourself.
Another thing I didn't expect was for there to be a lot of people that were just, oh,
these look cool.
So here I am hanging out, hanging out going to uni parties, you know.
And I'm there like, I'm going to rule the world.
know. So it's really about what you make out of it. That's why I learned the most and how to learn on
your own and how to connect with the right people and just be in the right circles and all those
kind of things. Yeah. I would say that it's again something I can relate to. The university
can teach you something, but then it's really about what you do in your free time, how proactive
you are, you know, networking and kind of finding your way into the industry in advance and not
waiting you graduate and
film industry is waited for you or something
exactly I think something that helped me
in my early days was the most
overinflated teenager ego
that was like you're gonna go all the way
so just you got this you know it's gonna happen so just make it happen
no matter what so yeah that really helped
at the start anyways then the ego's got to go
I think it's kind of everyone in the first year
and then over some time you find out that it doesn't really mean anything that you study that
yeah in a way you're right the degree in the end doesn't mean so much about the portfolio and
the people you know and just the actions you really take yeah something else i'm the say
and especially if you consider how competitive the industry is so it's actually very hard to
succeed or find a career or just stand out out of crowd and out of so many people yeah for sure
I always try to be realistic and realize that for me to go from point A to point B doesn't seem that clear or that there's a pad set out for me.
So I'm going to have to remove all the obstacles myself.
So that's something I was focused on and just try to be worthy of whatever I'm trying to achieve.