Over the past two years or so, I've seen an increasing proportion of Technical Artist roles that include something in the skills requirements about Python/Tooling. Can anyone give me some practical examples of what this is for? For example, a job might be advertised as "Unreal Technical Artist", but include "Maya" as a key…
Go look in the coding and scripting bit ( https://polycount.com/categories/coding-scripting-shader-writing ) for an idea of the sort of things TAs deal with - I'm going to assume you're fairly new and I think you're lacking a little context. It's difficult to give a practical example because what you're asking for an…
Thanks for the answers above, this is really helpful and probably explains why I've not had much success applying for Technical Art roles. I actually have around 10 years experience with Unreal/Unity, but I've mainly worked as a freelancer on small projects where there's been a couple of programmers and a couple of…