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Anything in tech would pay significantly better with the same skills. Graphics engineers are in high demand at many major tech companies like Meta, Apple, Google.

But film/games will still pay well. Just not as well.

As for needing a role, well it depends. Tech art is a very wide role with very little definition. But also those skills apply to engineering instead of tech art as well.

Engineers don’t need reels. Tech artists would if they’re more on the art side (shaders, characters) but less so on the tools side.