First and foremost it has to be their independent decision and nobody should be making such offers to a minor.
Secondy, huge risk to drop it now.
I've met people who either risked or dropped out of school to pursue a career(e.g. sports).
Most (if not all - we lost touch so I don't know) regretted the decision and in one instance rebelled against her parents wanting her to somehow juggle school and sport (which was serious at that point because she was part of the junior national team) and dropped out of the latter altogether, despite her parents wishes.
It won't hurt to wait those two years or so and instead hone those skills the same way they did all this time and just have a normal life before getting thrown in this high pressure environment that the world of 3D artists decidedly is.
Even though it's just two years, eighteen year olds on average handle many situations much better than sixteen year olds.
And where the 18 and 24 year olds don't handle it well because making someone else's vision on crunch schedules that exploit their
ignorance of workplace norms (not quite as ignorant as a 16 year old's, but still) isn't nearly as fun as creating your own stuff in your own time, they've got more paper qualifications to fall back on than "I dropped out to make computer games but couldn't hack it and don't want to do it any more"...
Secondy, huge risk to drop it now.
I've met people who either risked or dropped out of school to pursue a career(e.g. sports).
Most (if not all - we lost touch so I don't know) regretted the decision and in one instance rebelled against her parents wanting her to somehow juggle school and sport (which was serious at that point because she was part of the junior national team) and dropped out of the latter altogether, despite her parents wishes.
It won't hurt to wait those two years or so and instead hone those skills the same way they did all this time and just have a normal life before getting thrown in this high pressure environment that the world of 3D artists decidedly is.
Even though it's just two years, eighteen year olds on average handle many situations much better than sixteen year olds.