15 years, 12 applications and 3 tests before I landed a job at Blizzard. Started out as a generalist more than 21 years ago and now I specialize as an animator. below is part of the #animation test that got me in. #gamedevpic.twitter.com/oCO0KxqyUT
That's an interesting question but I think it depends. In my case, I get to animate something new almost every month it seems but in the past I was sometimes assigned to the same asset for sometimes half a year.