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Re: Game Art vs Game Programming
Actually the programming aspect for tech-artists is moving towards "proper"programming and away from just writing small helper scripts as pipelines and engines are getting more sophisticated. e.g. Unreal 4 will be scripted in C++. MEL/Max Script is replaced by more powerful object oriented languages such as C# and Python.… -
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ok Im going to give you a QUICK run down of my own experience ART- pro- art more reward visually, quicker feedback from others etc.More easier to quickly present ideas, has a large pull of things you can go into (character, env,technical etc) cons- higher amounts of competition, higher insecurity job wise, not as well… -
Re: Game Art vs Game Programming
Blend the two together and become a technical artists? They do art and write code a bit like a wandering cyborg samurai. Artists fear and respect their technical prowess because they make roadblocks evaporate and find new ways to grease the pipeline that enables artists to be more artistic in a very technical field.… -
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If you like both, I would say go into programming, and do art on the side. Programmers pretty much have free roam of how they do things. they may be told what to do (who isnt?), but when it comes down to it, you can code any way you want. For artists, its all about creativity, and within the workplace, that is not always… -
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The most surfire way to both thrive and end up making games in any form would be to: Take a standard engineering/computer science education, learn good and solid programming, be able to pay for your living in a job-area that is so much bigger than the games industry, keep doing games on your free-time in competitions and… -
Re: Game Art vs Game Programming
It's because the original poster was asking about what subjects to study in college. It's true that a degree doesn't really matter in games. The guy with the better demo is going to get the job, whether he has a degree or not. However, academic CS instruction can be very helpful. Not required, but helpful. Your earlier… -
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In order to be an efficient programmer you have to be stubborn and never give up. YES, you are going to get errors in those 200 lines of code you just wrote and NO, you are not getting the exact line number. There is a lot of trial and error, imagination and patience involved in programming, not just syntax and writing… -
Re: Game Art vs Game Programming
Yes, agreed, Technical Artists are sort of the middle ground here because they generally DO some programming but it's mainly on tools or scripts. They don't often write code for the actual game or engine. They write code that facilitates content creation or effects generation. -
Re: Game Art vs Game Programming
the key point here is that he DID take vector calculus an studied CS. i see some artists start programming games with libraries that are made for hobby games. they do not require any real mathematics programming and the level of code is not so deep. do not be fooled into thinking that that sort of programming will get you… -
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I thought exactly that was for 4-5 years before i said fuck it and made a game. You just have to truly be with it for a few weeks. Whats hard with programming is that you need to understand at least a certain level of stuff before you can write anything, and up until you understand that level it feels futile. After the…
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