Jeremiah Grant

This year I turned 40 & hit 20 years in the creative industry, working on amazing movies & games. But I was burned out. In Feb, I left my job to focus on my mental health, walking 800km on the Camino de Santiago. Now, I want to share my journey. What’s compelling to you?

@studio_galt This is a freelance role - I’m not aware of any country specifications

@Jeremiah3D Do you have a country specification?

📢Attn Riggers! I'm helping an awesome studio find a Tech Animator with strong rigging skills in Control Rig and Maya for some really exciting virtual production projects. Is that you?? Let me know! #controlrig #rigging #jobseekers #gamejobs #UnrealEngine

#gamedev got you burned out? #mentalhealth non-existent? #hiking but the 🛜 in #nature is 💀? I’m sharing my journey with fellow #Creatives in #tech. Let’s help each other ❤️‍🩹

@sirvoxelot Thank you! I’m feeling much more like myself again - slowing down isn’t something I’m well versed in 😅

@Jeremiah3D Hope you feelin better after being able to slow down a bit

This year I turned 40 & hit 20 years in the creative industry, working on amazing movies & games. But I was burned out. In Feb, I left my job to focus on my mental health, walking 800km on the Camino de Santiago. Now, I want to share my journey. What’s compelling to you?

@HollowsWoodsman We get into this work full of passion and creativity. It saddens me to see my friends and colleagues with empty creativity tanks, depressed, and desperately needing this abusive relationship to survive.

@Jeremiah3D Pursuit of passion and understanding over one's self is more important than any job. Your soul must be thanking you. Hope you inspire others to do the same. I took a 4 yr walk in the woods...I feel you.

@virtualfilmer It is. The amount of layoffs, restructuring, and other changes combined with the continual demand to “do more, faster, for cheaper” has so many people in similar situations. Our health shouldn’t be the price we pay to be in this industry.

@Jeremiah3D Yes that definitely sounds like a luxury. I think most people I know are barely able to pay rent right now - the industry is in a tough state. So I’m not really thinking much about mental health. More about being able to pay my bills tbh

@virtualfilmer That’s very true - I’m fortunate enough to be able to take an extended break - I think the creative industry is broken and we need to put mental health first BEFORE we hit a breaking point. That’s what I hope to explore and share

@Jeremiah3D That’s so interesting Jeremiah. How did you afford to quit your job though? Most of us can’t afford to take breaks for our mental health, for financial reasons

@GregoryRich19 Finally the title fits the work! Awesome to see.

Forgot to do this last time, but made sure I didn't forgot this time!

Now with fiction and a few favorite game-related art pieces

@tomsarkanen I have some great negotiation books on the shelf if you want some recommendations 😁

@Jeremiah3D Being forced to cull books is physically painful for me. Not culling books to is physically painful when moving house! Also maybe when negotiating bookshelf expansion with my wife…

Trying to cull my books but I realized each one tells a part of my life story. What would you keep or cut? What story does your bookshelf tell? #booklovers #growth #LearnAndGrow #BooksWorthReading #homesteading #leadership #productdesign

Show a GIF of a game that came out when you were 10 years old 👇

@GraemeBullX @WarforgeXP The biggies are a movement modifier to change movement speed and an effect modifier to change the spawn effects of a character

@Jeremiah3D @WarforgeXP name those goodies!!!

Hey @Jeremiah3D - You gave a great demo on the NPC device with wildlife retargeting. So far NO ONE in the community can get retargeting to work on wildlife. The animations simply don't play in the game. What do you know that we don't? 😅

@WarforgeXP FYI this should be fixed in the 28.30 release, along with a few other NPC goodies

@WarforgeXP Hmm.. no idea what I did differently, so I recorded a video of a setup from scratch. If following this doesn't work for you, then there's gotta be some sneaky bug somewhere dev.epicgames.com/community/lear…

@insaneUEFN @WarforgeXP thanks for trying it. I'm raising the issue with the team as well

@Jeremiah3D @WarforgeXP still great recording to show the steps. Let's see if other are able to recreate... 😄

@insaneUEFN @WarforgeXP

thanks for recording this @Jeremiah3D ! Maybe i'm missing something but i'm not able to recreate this. Tried also without setting the root for the Full Body Solver like in your recording. Tried without Solver at all. Tried with a couple of chains. Tried all the wildlife characters. Maybe just maybe there is a small bug...😅 but i hope i'm just missing something.

@BenjLumsden @WarforgeXP 🦖

@Jeremiah3D @WarforgeXP Looks like a mocap dinosaur :)

@PixelandPoly_FN @FNCreate Ha! Yep. Good eye!

@FNCreate Amazing live stream! @Jeremiah3D is that the saucer section of an Enterprise D in the background?

Hey creators! Check out what’s new in v28.10: 🔹 NPC Spawner Device 🔹 Updated Guard Spawner, Dance Mannequin, and Character Devices 🔹 Island Settings and Creative Content Browser Refresh 🔹 New Island Setting: Island Matchmaking Privacy And more! Get all the updates: fn.gg/v28-10-fne