Toronto IGDA Talk by Adam Bromell

Emil Mujanovic

As some of you may know, Adam Bromell recently did a talk at the IGDA Toronto meeting about what it is to be a Video Game Artist, titled "More Than Pushing Polys".

 

On October 20th, 2011, Principal Editor, Adam Bromell was the guest speaker at the Toronto IGDA October Meeting and he gave an interesting talk on what it is to be a Video Game Artist. Like many of you, I wasn't able to attend and was pleased to see that the talk was recorded and has now been made available for everyone to watch online.

The talk covers quite a few aspects of becoming and being a Video Game Artist, what it entails, how to keep motivated, how to progress as an artist and keep yourself and your skills up to current standards, where to begin and great general advice on the industry all from his own perspective. He also mentions Polycount. A lot. Publicity whore!

I personally found the talk interesting and inspiring, and it gave me some insight to a different way of thinking when approaching my own art work and when looking for work. So I highly recommend this to anyone interested in becoming a Video Game Artist and it's also very relevant to current industry professionals as well.

The talk is about 1 hour and 10 minutes in length (including the QA section). Enjoy.

 

 

Would you like to see more Polycount run functions/presentations/meetings/workshops?

 

Related Links:

• Polycount
• IGDA Toronto
• Adam Bromell's website
• UStream - Adam Bromell Polycount Presentation
• Tor 'Snefer' Frick

JasonLavoie

Good stuff Adam, looking foward to watching this. I heard it went really well.

Wiktor

Very nice!
I'm watching it right now, and I like it so far.

spiderDude

great video

Fang

Thanks for the talk.

worldalpha

I was there and really enjoyed the talk! Great job Adam!

EMC3D

Awesome talk, good stuff Adam.

adam

Ah right on, thanks guys. I'm happy it was recorded and up on the net so fast!

juicecures

i enjoyed this.

Tadao215

very inspiring

pinkbox

great vid. well worth watching

toxic_h2o

Thanks for sharing your wisdom Adam, I'm also attempting to go the self taught route, its nice to hear your story and opinions.

Snefer

Good talk man! : ]

PeteHawk

Thank for the presentation Adam. Loved every bit of it!

Mister Sentient

Thanks for sharing this. Interesting talk, Adam.

Daven

I needed some background noise while I worked, so I thought your voice would do nicely :P

Seriously though, great talk. All of it simple and straightforward but relevant.
Don't worry, one day you'll be good at what you do.

adam

@suburbbum: Haha, yes, I do hope my shit doesn't smell one day.

For everyone, Emil asked this in the News drop: Would you like to see more Polycount run functions/presentations/meetings/workshops?

UNCCheezy

yea, it would be awesome to have more of these.

tristamus

Great talk Adam, hopefully teh noobies will learn from all this!

Donavonyoung

I would really enjoy these more often.

mdeforge

Great listen! And yes, I would like to hear more talks in the future.

Tavor

Awesome talk. I would love to see/hear more of them in the future.

Robbyh

Would you like to see more Polycount run functions/presentations/meetings/workshops?

Yes , YES !

I love these talks ! I had the most inspiring talk by David Jaffe. The Pax one is just awee

disanski

I would love to hear more talks. This was great

DLoud

Great talk Adam. It was really refreshing to see an art talk with new ideas and interesting points rather than the same old stuff. Definitely would like to see more of these.

ZFerguson

As an aspiring videogame artist, on the verge of starting to look for jobs, this was an excellent video to watch.

Would you like to see more Polycount run functions/presentations/meetings/workshops?

YES YES YES

Autocon

Great talk adam. Would have loved to have something like this when I was in school.

The Mad Artist

I agree with Autocon, something like this is great listening for someone in school and not quite sure of how to go about working as an artist. Listened to it today at work and think you did a great job.

dannedadon

thank you very much for doing this and posting this

Snader

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Snader

That harbl warbl at the bottom was supposed to read "YES" in large letters, sorry about the double post.

Mjolnir_Zero

lol I made it into your lecture video Adam! (My GW2 test anyway) sadly it wasn't on a good note... oh well . Thanks so much for that video Adam, it was very inspiring and I feel alot like you did when you were first trying to get into the industry. Almost entirely self taught and I must say I think Networking has got to be one of the best things you can do (of course you have to be good). From a studio's PoV, trying to stand out from a crowd of strangers is very challenging unless A) you are 3 shades of awesome or you know people and they know you and you have proved yourself reliable. I'll keep working on my stuff and maybe one of these times I will finally start to turn some heads my way.

S_ource

This is really interesting and i learned a lot, since i want to get into the industry this was really helpful. Thanks alot. And yes i really would love to see more videos or podcasts like this.

MadnessImport

FOUND IT FINALLY
Just finished watching it

Im kinda following in Adam's steps! Except i joined a team to make a mmo/mod when I was 15 now Im 18 slowly improving.

The Nwn2 Engine was the worst piece of shit I ever used in my life and Im glad i used it too, it was a massive learning experience and got me into how normal maps worked and how models are triangulated when put in an Engine

Thanks for the lecture If yous see this Adam