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  • RetroEclipseMan
    AO's Future Game Artist
    • Jun 2002
    • 1386

    #1

    You Might Be a Game Artist If....

    Saw this on polycount.com and figure you all might get a good laugh out of it. (edited some things out of course)

    You spend half the day with your headphone wire wrapped around you chair wheels and your ankles because you are too lazy and fat to get up and do anything about it.

    When you draw with real pencil and paper you keep reaching for the Undo option.

    You live in Texas even though you hate it because this is the only place in the world were you can get paid this much money to do this ****.

    Every piece of art you do you think "this might look better with a skull on it".

    You think coming to work with dyed hair when your 27 and wearing a "F--- YOU" t-shirt is cool but you are really just an a--hole.

    You want to punch everyone in the face who says to you "I wish I could just sit around and play games for a living" and make them sit at your desk for 12 hours a day and try to make good looking art in a 64x128 space while working on a game that should of been out the door a year ago, while the designer changes the whole game around every other month.

    You own 6 Giger books you never look at but look cool on your book shelf.

    You think you are the only one secretly trying to flirt with the receptionist over e-mail.

    You love to b---- about things like the enviroment while you sit around all day with airconditioning blowing up your a--.


    You would wait an hour for an elevator before walking one flight of steps.


    If you are a 2d man you think all 3d artists are not really artists, but you are because you use Photoshop.

    If you are a 3d man you think you are a real artist because you went to school for 18 months and learned how to move polygons around and that you are soon going to replace texture artists with the latest version of Texture Creator.

    You are some day going to own your own game company and do this **** right!

    You think you are going to make Brom your b---- when you get your new Wacom.

    You think KPT really looks good.

    You ICQ someone sitting right next to you because you are a social moron and can't talk.


    You think shiny Eyecandy bevels really do look good in some rusty metal textures.

    You think it is some real funny **** to sound like the Jerky Boys on your voice mail.

    You put up plan files that talk about your views on the f------ rain forest or some other **** no one gives a f--- what you think about and have nothing to do with what you are working on.


    You think you are "old school" because you paint with the mouse only.


    You think your rusty metal texture is original.

    If you think all professional athletes are "gay" because they slap each others butts.

    You think football is for "f--s".

    You spend a lot of time sitting around going "I can't believe they pay me this much to do this".

    You think Cyber-Athletes are real athletes.

    You are going to "get your portfolio together someday"

    Your whole portfolio of consists of art 128x128 pixel size.

    You think you are a real artist.

    You ruin movies by pointing out stupid **** like motion blurs or camera angles like you know what the heck you are talking about.

    If you stand for more than 10 minutes you get dizzy.

    You can't run

    You buy "THE ART OF......" any single stupid sci-fi movie ever made.

    You are now legally blind.

    You went to the Art Institute for two years and now you are paid like a doctor or lawyer.

    Women scare you.

    You think your penis is just for peeing.

    You have a pin-up of Lara Croft or some other game girl with huge polygon breasts.

    You get a chubber when you look at Lara Crofts polygonal butt.

    People refer to you using your Quake name.

    You have some lame saying at the bottom of your auto signature that you think makes you seem cerebral and smart and you are really just a dumb a--.

    You think you are just like Neo from the Matrix and it is cool to be pasty and pale and sit in front of your computer all day and night. Even though he had muscles and you are a fat pig.

    The only people who get laid less than you are the programmers on the game you are working on.

    You think taking pictures of rusty metal or paint chipped walls, scanning them into Photoshop and making it "tillable" is doing art and you feel the need to put a tutorial up on some lame *** web site explaining just how it is that you managed to pull this magical feat off.

    Your tits look like hot water bottles and you are a 24 year old male.

    You think that you and people like George Lucas or Spielberg are in the same industry.

    You tell people you have been staying late at work busting a-- when all you are doing is sitting on your fat a-- playing Quake 3 until 1am.

    You think you could be working at ILM or PIXAR if you would just "get your stuff together."

    You think you are a bad a-- by pointing out bad animations in stuff like Saturday morning cartoons.


    You have a bussiness card and you are a freakn' idiot.


    You show your friends your new Spawn toy that you bought this weekend and display it all neatly on top of your monitor like it is really something to be proud of that you are 30 and buy kids toys.


    You constantly debate meaninglesss BS like "Elian" by SPAM e-mail like anyone give a rats a-- what the heck you think. You are a texture artist....shut the heck up.


    You call programmers nerds and you are wearing and Age of Empires shirt.

    If you were in any other field you would be starving.
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  • BlackHalo
    Pinoy + Canuck = Pinnuck
    • Jul 2002
    • 356

    #2
    ha ha ha

    A lot of those apply to other game industry jobs too.

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    • RetroEclipseMan
      AO's Future Game Artist
      • Jun 2002
      • 1386

      #3
      It's late so I figure I might as well post the second part to this list . enjoy...cause i'm sure it applies to many

      from polycount:
      not entirely accurate, but some of them are Spot On. you forgot some usual buts such as:

      ... Have a $3000.00 system with a $75.00 43d accellerator, and a $30.00 office chair giving you carpal tunnel, blindness, and chronic backpain, all in the comfort of your cube.

      ...have more toys now, than you ever did growing up.

      ... eat out of vending machines, more than any other source of food.

      ..Piss on tester, because they are lower on the totem pole than you are.

      ...use the web as the largest texture library on the planet, then not credit the source.

      ...dabble with flash, and outside projects constantly, but complain about the short development schedules.

      ... (if 3d) pester your boss about the latest plugin or add on package for your Dev tools, and then when it comes, not use it, becaus you don't want to bother with the learning curve.

      ...exchange email with the art droids in other parts of the company asking how to do stuff, or answering it, so that NO ONE will look like they don't know what they are doing.

      ...Scream like a baby when the archive on MP3's on your project server is ordered off, and you gave away your boom box last month.

      ...Have no room on your HD because of MP3's other people's games, other peoples art, porn, anime porn, autopsy photos, and Mpegs of the farting date commercial.

      ...pull an all nighter, but end up engaging in cybersex via IRC just to stay awake, let alone Make photoshop do anything useful.

      and the boss catches you

      and asks which channel, because he's waiting on the programmers, and wants to stay awake too.

      yell at people because their Boombox is too loud, but have no problem with the sounds from "soldier of fortune" pounding out of a mega bass subwoofer on your system.

      wouldn't know who Andrew Loomis, or George bridgeman is, but think Bisley and Jim Lee are the pinnacle of artistic perfection.

      use the word "polycount", texture map, and "dude' all in the same sentence.

      that in highschool you bet that they could make a better tyrannosaur than Jurrassic park, using some lame program like strata pro or True Space, and your machine choked and died when the lumpy critter passed the 600,000 poly mark.

      tried to animate the same critter, and the machine took 2 weeks to render an 8 frame run cycle.

      tried to put the same critter on your demo reel, and screamed in horror upon finding out the videocard you have has macrovision.

      sniffed at low poly, then had to do it for a work project, and now discovered that you can't think of that high poly **** the same way anymore...

      have to work on a golf game, because it was a sure money maker for the compay, after the fired everyone else on your old team, because the old producer's cost over runs on the way cool FPS game caused it to be cancelled.

      you are embarassed by your art on the cover of a major magazine, and that wasn't the right file you gave to marketing.

      You are embarassed, because it is a beautiful image, but it's from a product they just cancelled.

      you are embarassed, because someone in marketing added more cleavage to the render, with a bad photoshop trick.

      all the books on your work shelf have broken spines because you scannedeverylast single useful image, texture, or character out of them.

      use the free copiesof the game you just finished and shipped, to trade in for someone else's game.

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      • BlackHalo
        Pinoy + Canuck = Pinnuck
        • Jul 2002
        • 356

        #4
        oooo...I hated these guys. When I was a tester we made one progammer cry when he tried this. Found so many bugs in his area that he came down to apologize and to ask us to stop because he was so late.

        Originally posted by RetroEclipseMan

        ..Piss on tester, because they are lower on the totem pole than you are.

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