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11/09/08
With programming... I have not a clue.
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The thing I've noticed with artists though is that great artists in the games industry aren't exactly what most people would expect. The best artists I've worked with are very very very good and making high quality art, under very restrictive requirements(poly count, texture size, etc), and have a moderate working knowledge of scripting/programming.
Programmers that draw, are not necessarily programmers that create final art. Not enough time for that. They already don't sleep all that much, asking them to do art would just be absurd. A lot of programmers do make some of their own art when prototyping stuff, but that usually by no means looks good.
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but yeah, turnover in the industry is high
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Artistic nerds?
There's a mix that doesn't happen often in nature.
I'm not saying they don't exist but if that's what the industry needs to advance then I would say there's going to be a select couple of guys who are working their butts off.
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The best artists are nerds.
Nerds are generally characterised as having excessive knowledge of esoteric trivia, an obsession with detail and dressing funny.
Unless, of course, you're talking exclusively about IT knowledge - in which case, seeing as how most commercial art is firmly planted in the digital by now (pick up a copy of ImagineFX sometime) makes perfect sense. What kind of artists doesn't know his or her tools inside and out?
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Even among the directors you see specialization. Scorsese isn't making Pixar films. All of Spielberg's films are about the main character being lost and found.
Sure, you'll still have auteurs, just as you do in filmmaking, where you have jacks of all trades - but you'll need to be really good at something. Hell, Gabe says that *in the same interview*: you need to "hav[e] demonstrated excellence in a specific domain".
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That's specialization. And that's exactly the reason that films even get made on a large scale.
I'm a Lighting Technician, by the way.
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20 people isn't a giant team. 20 people is what you had on a SNES game.
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i hope comair didn't pay gabe. dude sounds like a walking advertisement.
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