With that one quote, Paul was referring specifically to Concept Artists (it's not clear when he's saying it in the video). He's saying: If you want to paint stuff for a living in the computer games industry, learn to paint on a computer. That's all. He's not trying to say he doesn't like traditional SKILLS. On the…
That guy is spot on even with the traditional art comment . For games you need to know how to create art digitally . I doubt even illustrators turned game artists these days do much drawing , maybe sketching but not full on drawing on the job . They do it in photoshop and painter and I think that is all he meant . The…
[ QUOTE ] I think he was more stating that "traditional artists need not apply". Which is true, video games aren't made of oil paintings, heh. [/ QUOTE ] ...and at the risk of seeming overly pedantic about this issue, I'd still have to go ahead and disagree with that quote. Give me 2 non industry experienced artists…
[ QUOTE ] I really didn't get "there's no need for traditional art skills" from those videos though. I thought the message was quite clear. If you're applying to be an environment artist, for instance, you're not going to be submitting your acrylic self portraits. You'll be submitting your environment models, textures, and…
[ QUOTE ] Clearly its vague, since it prompted someone in this thread to seek clarification. I disagree that the message is clear. Everything you've just said in your post is perfectly true and valid. But in a case of something like a character artist applying to us for a job, If they have life drawing and clay sculpture,…
Awesome videos, he has a great speech presence. Thanks for sharing this, very entertaining. :] I really didn't get "there's no need for traditional art skills" from those videos though. I thought the message was quite clear. If you're applying to be an environment artist, for instance, you're not going to be submitting…
[ QUOTE ] But if you had the choice of choosing from a talented 'traditional' artist or a talented 'game-art' artist with no real traditional art background, which would you choose then Daz? [/ QUOTE ] I suppose it isn't surprising that my comments could be completely mis-interpreted. Of course I'd take the guy with the…
[ QUOTE ] I can clarify it with paul tommorow, but i'm pretty sure that message was "If you are a traditional artist, learn to make digital art if you want a job" and not "Traditional art training has nothing to do with being a game artist" [/ QUOTE ] That makes sense. It was easy to view the 2min rant against traditional…