Cade Windstalker
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Posted - 2013.08.17 18:41:00 -
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MotherMoon wrote:They out source it all, at least they use too, and they just have a few art devs to touch up the art right?
Where did you get this little gem of factual inaccuracy?
In game, press ESC, go to the tab bar of the ESC menu, and click on the far right hand tab labeled "About Eve". This contains developer credits list, there's a nice section for the art team :)
Kethry Avenger wrote:CCP BunnyVirus wrote:Marwolaeth Arglwydd wrote: I completely understand, but would 1 ship type reworked every 3 months or so be possible? It would take a while to work you way though all T2's but as long as its a trickle of revamped ships....
It would be more like one at a time and it definetly not possible to rework 1 ship type every 3 months So CCP doesn't have enough art devs to make 4 new ships (what is basically required to rework one ship line) every three months? Ok next time there is a thing to vote on for what CCP needs to do, I am going to put hire more artists up there.
A few problems with this, one it's not "4 ships at a time" it's an entire T2 class, which contains up to 8 ships.
Second, we tend to think of this as "oh, yeah, I can totally model that in a month!" when we look at a problem like this, where as in reality there's a large process of conception, design, review, and revision that goes into a hull like the Stealth Bombers. Sure it's possible someone can pull and awesome, original design out of thin air that requires very little review and revision to fit into the art style of the game, match lore, and look awesome (and probably a few other things I'm not thinking of). If you can do this reliably year after year then they'd probably like to hire you! Also you're a special, magic, one in a billion person because that's just about impossible.
As for the "HIRE MORE ARTISTS!!!" bit, that's kind of mean to the artists actually. So, they take on more talent specifically to revise ship hulls. When that's done in, say, a year, now what? They'll probably have to fire those artists because they aren't needed anymore and they don't have enough work to justify keeping them around. Never mind where they're going to get the money to pay them in the first place.
TLDR: CCP's art team is awesome and deserves cookies. |