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Originally Posted by Vernon Why would someone choose to be so...diversified? |
I'm curious. Why not?
So long as all the trades you are the jack of you are skilled to do and you do them well. By the way I am not defending the intent of the original post here at all. I am just answering your question.
In this business as competitive as it is as I am sure you know, you need to offer as many (related) services as you possibly can. The idea here is to always one-up your competition.
Where one particular service is asked for by your client, you open other doors for the client never thought of in the process (perhaps later on down the road for a different type of service needed). I do this everytime I meet for a portfolio review. They ask to see retouching samples so I bring along the retouching portfolio. But I also bring along a little bit of 3D stuff, some digital illustration, traditional illustration/painting/freehand drawing/quicksketch whatever.
The comes the comments and questions "oh wow, you can do this too?" etc. Their heads nod, their eyebrows raise and you can hear the wheels in their heads turn with ideas.
I think what it does is impresses on them (esp if they are the art directors) that you are not just some tech head who knows his Photoshop, but somebody who is artistically versed as well - who can "vision" things out like they can as well as not "filter dependent" to achieve what it is they might need when Photoshop isn't the answer.
Its worked wonders for me. Just my 2c.
-Peter