Remember every environment artist only models at ND, and they get paired with a texture artist. So the credits say 7 Environment artist...but if you think about it, its really 14+
Excuse the ignorance if this is common knowledge but I know nothing about how the games industry works. I've just watched the credits roll on Uncharted 3 and I noticed the artist credits. I watched for the art section, and was surprised to see only about 7 environment artists and 2 character artists. I was thinking 'surely…
Actually there are 12 credited "Environment Artists" who model and create the scenes here at ND. We also have 11 "Texture/Shader Artists" who texture our environments. Plus 3 leads who do as much work as normal Environment Artists/Texture Artists but also handle lead responsibility. So we had 26 credited Environment…