Always hard to get a foot in the door into a new role when one doesn't have direct company experience in the role on a resume. The best thing I can think of wo

Always hard to get a foot in the door into a new role when one doesn't have direct company experience in the role on a resume. The best thing I can think of would be to work on some independent projects (eg. some mod of a game, some indie game or graphics related app itself) and have that work be part of a portfolio. The other approach that I've seen work is to get into a games company as it is significantly expanding and make it known that you want to do rendering work in the future. At an old company I was at a Gameplay Programmer pivoted to being a Graphics Programmer as the graphics team needed more help and was expanding, and I see via linked in that he's continued in that path.