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gnoop said:

Worth checking  the fbx dialog is set  to Media&Entertainment . Helped me few times with 3dmax glitches  and smooth groups should be definitely off for import.  Otherwise any custom normals would be ignored.

This worked for me! The smoothing groups option was active, therefore removing the smoothing groups.

Thanks for all your responses!

Quite interesting really, I think it's pretty similar to how the different styles of kungfu used to battle it out to decide which style was the best. In the end they decided that no style was greater than another but merely the skill level of the individuals.

Every single career is difficult and easy depending on the standard you are comparing it to and or aiming at.

Env art may often be seen as easy for beginners but high quality env art will ultimately be very difficult, the same for each career.

I find concepting env art difficult because if it doesn't meet the high standard I would want it to and want to aim at then I consider it shit, where as others may think it should be easy by comparison to what I usually do which they may perceive to be difficult.

It really depends on the individual. I have a really hard time creating environment art, but my co-workers would have a hard time animating.

If I had to pick one position as the hardest I would say Tech Artist. There is usually only one tech artist per team, and he has to support all the other artists by creating tools, he has to develop the art pipelines, he has to know every aspect of the game engine, he has to convert programmer jargon into artist lingo, and he's probably got a few art tasks he's responsible for as well.

Just to weigh in my opinion the hardest to be good at is going to be a technical artist, purely because by being more technical orientated you have to know waaay more fields beyond the scope of just what you see eg coding/scripting/integrating. Which in turn means keeping upto date on improvements on each of the above.

Designers have it easy :shifty:

Animators have it the hardest :poly142:

But on a more serious note which ever field you choose will be bloody hard. So work at it!

They're all different fields with their own complexities.

If there is one that's harder than the others, I'd suggest Technical Artist would probably be the one, given you need a handle of coding, or at least scripting as well as art.