Hello, I am a senior high schooler from Turkey! I hope to go to the best animation university in our country next year and I am curious about something, would studios give a job someone from Turkey or any other country except Americas? I would move to the LA without moving payment of studio's. I really want to be a character designer in Cartoon Network or Disney TVA it's my dream.. But I am nervous about never getting a job in US because my country.:( Anyways thank you so much for your answer!!
Hi! I don’t know much about how international artists get their start in the US, but I have friends that weren’t born in the US that do. Here is what one of them said about this question (copied and pasted because I’m too lazy to reformat haha):“ok so, US studios absolutely give jobs to foreigners, its how im working here after allthe problem is that you have to be either really good at what you do (like, outstanding enough for a studio to want to sponsor a whole visa) or have the right connections in LAmy personal path was that i was working at a tiny animation studio in my home country, and eventually got some freelance from a US studio. after freelancing for them for a while, they decided they liked me enough to sponsor a visa, but at that point i had about 3 years of experience both working in my country and freelancingbut if you have a college degree from an art school, studios can basically sponsor your visa as soon as you graduate. i didnt have a degree so for me i needed a minimum of i think 2 years of experiencei guess any advice i would have for this person would be: start working to make sure you’re really rreally good at character design, start talking to people on twitter, hit up recruiters thru email to send them your portfolio, apply to any US-based position you see, basically anything you can to start getting your name out there in the USit takes a different amount of time for every person, but the best you can do is put as many feelers out there so that your chances increase. basically just keep working, keep reaching out, and something good might happenits not a guarantee but tell this person i wish them luck... its a hard road but its not impossible”I hope that helped!
