i'd love to see a tech art reel with a script section in the middle where we watch you create a script in real time and the music breaks down, getting all heavy metal and epic movie orchestraish.
If you can't script, you probably need to learn. The technical artists at the studios I interned at really earned their keep with all the tools they created for us to make our workflow better
No, but I'm sure I can learn. That's the other bizarre thing about tech artist postings. Until said Art Director explained to me that Tech artists work as a liaison, between the tech/program side and the art department; I associated the position with what you just asked me: Scripting Rigging and Making sure things work…
Do these exist? I've been living in Austin for about 8 weeks now working with kids at a camp, teaching mostly Modeling With Maya and Level Design with UnrealEd. My first week here I had lunch with an Art Director, and he told me I should perhaps think of marketing myself as a tech artist. And lately, I've been looking at…