u/Emotional_Alarm8279

I've been a traditional artist since I was a kid but now I'm finally learning digital art because I want to someday work in animation.

I tend to think about the future a bit too much and since I'm, for a lot of reasons, unable to attend university and get a degree, when I look at examples of CVs and portfolios I believe that in plenty of time I can improve enough to have good art in my portfolio, that's not scary to me, but if I had to write about my experiences i would literally have nothing to say.

So my question is, since everyone says you can be in the animation industry without a degree, can you literally get into it with ONLY good art or do you need some sort of other experience and if so what could i do? Also I'm italian so I'd be interested in stuff located in Europe :)

I just feel like I'm gonna get a bit stuck because I know internships are a thing for example but all of the ones I've looked at only accept people from universities (I guess that's the point of internships?)

Lastly, I know animation is broad so I'm mainly interested in environment/prop/character design and I also have a little experience with Blender because I absolutely love 3D animation, I just don't wanna spend a ton of money on Maya right now lol

So i've always been a traditional artist and I got my first drawing tablet a couple days ago (Huion Kamvas pro 16 V2). I love it and i've been drawing 3/4 hours on it per day and this morning i woke up with a pretty bad headache. I'm assuming it could have something to do with staring at a screen for hours lol so do you guys use anything to prevent this? I think there's some kind of special glasses that prevent eye damage but I already wear prescription glasses