[game_edu] More info on the tech art video archive

[Bill Crosbie]

It occurred to me that you may be too busy to watch over 2 hours of video
today, but are still interested in sampling the project. Here is a list of
the questions addressed:

Questions for tech artists :
http://blender.rutgers.edu/~bcrosbie/gdc11/questions.html

   1. Please introduce yourself and what company you are with
   2. When did you first realize that you were morphing in to a technical
   artist from your original role?
   3. Can you provide an example from a project you worked on that required
   your specific skills as a technical artist to solve?
   4. Did you come to a TA role from the art or programming side of
   development?
   5. How much and what kind of self directed learning did becoming an
   effective TA involve?
   6. What types of mathematics do you regularly use in your job? (not
   courses, specific mathematical concepts)
   7. What esoteric mathematics have you had to teach yourself (if anything)
   8. What low level technical concepts did you have to grok to become an
   effective TA? (shaders, graphics pipeline, mesh optimization... are these
   the types of examples that are useful?)
   9. What artistic principles did you need to grok to become an effective
   TA? (was thinking if someone went from programming to art...)
   10. If there was one thing you could tell academics about the role of a
   TA, what would it be?
   11. Is there anything else you want to tell me (fill the rest of memory
   if you want to...)


Videos: at http://www.youtube.com/opcode6

If you watched one or more videos - I'd love to hear what you think. Either
comment on the video page or share back to the mailing list.

Thanks
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