{"id":681,"date":"2011-03-17T14:39:30","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T18:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oztalay.com\/matt\/?p=681"},"modified":"2012-01-19T11:48:49","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T16:48:49","slug":"gdc-2011-notes-art-culture-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oztalay.com\/matt\/gdc-2011-notes-art-culture-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"GDC 2011 Notes &#8211; Art Culture Panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong>\u201cNo dicks, no douchebags, no drama\u201d ~ Gearbox<\/p>\n<p>Gearbox encourages culture of critique through anonymous peer reviews of both person and work<\/p>\n<p>Encourage mindset of \u201cHow good is that other guy, and how do I figure out what he knows?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Have \u201cTraining Days\u201d -&gt; Everyone teaches something<\/p>\n<p>Show and Tell days -&gt; Art Councils in different fields that discuss techniques to better each other.<\/p>\n<p>Cooking Show-type tutorials<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The company needs to want to train its artists and encourage them to learn from each other<\/p>\n<p>Students-&gt; Wait, so many talented artists out there without work<\/p>\n<p>-But they\u2019re hungry, not cynical and jaded<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re losing the atmosphere of creative solutions b\/c of technology<\/p>\n<p>Social gamespace is akin to the early years of game development, very much a Wild West of gaming<\/p>\n<p>Art Directors don\u2019t have to be as good as the artists they direct, but must be sympathetic to their needs and concerns<\/p>\n<p>Applicant Advice<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Game Engine experience shows applicants are taking their experience to \u201cthe next level\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Life Drawings! Show they\u2019re taking what they see and recreating it accurately<\/li>\n<li>Want to see focused artists that do what they love<\/li>\n<li>Sketches and sketchbooks show thought process<\/li>\n<li>Show what you did and contributed to the overall project<\/li>\n<li>Look at what the studio is working on and show them an asset that belongs in their game<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Art Serves Design<br \/>\nDesign Serves Art<\/p>\n<p>If design and art are fighting, you have a culture problem<\/p>\n<p>Need to have teams working toward a clearly-defined goal<\/p>\n<p>Whole scene is more important than one asset, don\u2019t get bogged down by high level of detail if its hurting the whole scene<\/p>\n<p>Tech Artists are necessary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNo dicks, no douchebags, no drama\u201d ~ Gearbox Gearbox encourages culture of critique through anonymous peer reviews of both person and work Encourage mindset of \u201cHow good is that other guy, and how do I figure out what he knows?\u201d Have \u201cTraining Days\u201d -&gt; Everyone teaches something Show and Tell days -&gt; Art Councils in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[185,72,180,182],"class_list":["post-681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essays-and-opinions","tag-art-culture","tag-gdc","tag-gdc-2011","tag-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oztalay.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oztalay.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oztalay.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oztalay.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oztalay.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.oztalay.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":927,"href":"http:\/\/www.oztalay.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions\/927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oztalay.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oztalay.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oztalay.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}