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Re: Why you need an education
I really disagree strongly about the thrust of the OP. I do not need to learn coding full stop. I am not a technical artist, I am zbrush/ texture artist who does a litle bit of rigging and a little bit of animation. I will spend the rest of my career geting better at that. If programmer wants to disrepsect me then that's… -
Re: Why you need an education
No, but I did google a little bit and it seems tech artists make about 10K more than regular artists. Any normal pro-level game artist could pick up basic tech artist skills in a couple months if they felt like it. But really what I'm talking about is learning enough to appreciate what another person's job is. Mutual… -
Why you need an education
There have been countless "should I go to art school threads." The answer is no. Don't waste your time or money on any art or game school. With that out of the way, you may want to get an education. Here are some reasons: If you're an artist, all the coders and business people at your job are probably vastly more educated… -
Re: Why you need an education
total garbage. Theres plenty of artists who have a maths education, theres plenty of artists who did other technical or involving jobs before and after working in games. I could not disagree more that because coders study math that they should be held in some awesome godlike status. I cant build a house, I cant fly an… -
Re: Why you need an education
If you think that programers will necessarily have writing, business, or communication skills better than an artist from the same school... I believe your viewpoint is colored with your economics degree? Do you think in part your speech came from this? Do you know artists that went to your school personally? As said, you… -
Re: Why you need an education
Jasper Byrne (lone survivor) Edmund McMillian (super meat boy) Cactus (hotline miami) Justin Ma (FTL) Adam Saltzman (canabalt) Derek Yu (spelunky) This is a list of people, off the top of my head, that do some coding and make great art that is well integrated into commercially successful games. These games have a lot of… -
Re: Why you need an education
Degrees are a method for measuring someone's qualifications in a given field. If getting a job is 90% dependent on a resume, as it is for most mid-high income jobs, a degree is probably mandatory. This concept doesn't apply as much to artists however because we can show our portfolios. A doctor can't line up a group of… -
Re: Why you need an education
There is a lot of discussion about college educations and that wasn't really my point. A lot of the smartest people I know are college drop-outs. I conflated coders and business people together in the original post because it was easy, and it would take several pages to suss out the exact details of how and why these… -
Re: Why you need an education
Totally understand. But lets flip the situation to what seems like is the norm nowadays. Business people/people with a coding background are definitely in charge of artists more often than not and depending on the studio know little to nothing about artists and how long it takes to finish an asset which in turn leads to… -
Re: Why you need an education
And they're also all indie producers. This pretty much forces them to be well-rounded as they can't just hire legions of artists and coders to work on their respective components whenever they need polishing. Of course this does prove that being well-rounded is good, but I doubt they started that way, they probably had to…
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