[game_edu] Brenda Braithwaite's game_edu rant at GDC

[Bill Crosbie]

I don't know that this would be an answer for all of the 3D art students,
but showing them how scripting languages will be useful to them in their
career in game production could be useful.

One resource to direct students toward would be tech-artists.org  The
instructors might not have the chops, but interested students could develop
the expertise with the help of the community.

Also, a good example of the power of scripting comes from Bioware tech
artist, Ben Cloward's, portfolio:
http://bencloward.com/movies/rigging_reel.wmv

This example demonstrates how a 2 day intensive character rigging process
was automated over time, allowing him more time to work on using the rig to
produce quality animation.



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> …there is a concerned that the 3d-art students are presenting are lacking a

> WOW factor and their Python projects often aren’t portfolios pieces. The

> plan is to expand the time the students have to work on their 3D

> environments and characters with UDK seeming to be a better showcase for

> those.

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> I also think that it’s a familiarity issue with some of the instructors.

> Once the students leave the python class, none of their remaining classes

> have instructors familiar with Python, and therefore the artists would be on

> their own when implementing a Python script into any of their work going

> forward. Ironically, Python was originally chosen since it’s supported in

> Maya, but the instructors for scripting haven’t been familiar enough with

> modeling software, and the modeling teachers haven’t been familiar enough

> with scripting, for either one to take advantage of that.

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