as, someone that does envirment art I can tell you knowing python, and being able to write my own tools, and exporters to bend Maya over, has really made me more useful and had drastcally sped up my work flow. also it helps you more effectively communicate with the programmers and tech artists.
if youre an environment artist I would say youre better off learning mel, python or javascript for photoshop or something. ultimately the programmers program, and offering to do something thats not in your job description can sometimes be very hurtful to others - at least from my experience. because schools are there to…