You say that the art team is the biggest bottleneck for anything new.
Then why not increase the staff in the art team to reduce the bottleneck?
That's the reason we still don't have all of the racial dropsuits.
Or that we don't have jets.
And many other things like that.

Alternatively CCP, stop throwing seconds on their plates as they haven't yet finished their first helping!

For those who fail @ metaphor, why are we getting new classes of vehicles and dropsuits when the classes we currently have are not rounded out with all racial variants.

Alternatively CCP, stop throwing seconds on their plates as they haven't yet finished their first helping!

For those who fail @ metaphor, why are we getting new classes of vehicles and dropsuits when the classes we currently have are not rounded out with all racial variants.

Well, I gotta call you on Fighters, because I'm telling you right now: flying those in our current redlines would SUCK.

Funny thing is that the game design team is apparently the bottleneck for weapon customization, because we had a post in IRC a while back from one of the art guys saying the visual assets are already finished.

It seems the teams aren't cooperating too well on what they're releasing and when.

Just thought I'd throw in some input. This is not meant to be malicious in anyway. so please don't feel that it is.

Being a commercial artist myself, throwing more people at any part of the creative process does not make it go faster.
In fact, it will slow the process down. (at first)

This mindset is one of the most aggravating parts of the industry because every client seems to think that way.

Some examples:

If you hire a new artist for your concept team, he/she will not be consistent with the rest of the team. This will lead to multiple rounds of revisions and frustration.

The old team has been painting/drawing/modelling in the same style for months and have developed short hands.

They've got libraries of their own assets that they can reuse and an understanding of their own work files so they can effectively hit their deadlines. (try wading through someone else's work file... yuck)

A new artist will not be able to utilize these as efficiently until he/she spends enough time settling into the creative atmosphere.

THE best thing to do is to just give these guys some time. Time is the only thing that creates a good product. Not more people.


anyhow. Just my experienced point of view. You are welcome to disagree.

I suggest patience.

I honestly can't see how the Art team will be the bottleneck... in fact the "Art Concept" is normally finish, far before the game development even starts. If anything i will say that is the "Graphics Department " that is slowing things down. Things like Modeling, Textures, and animation. We don't even have WATER in any maps yet .. and that is such a basic thing to do.

Just thought I'd throw in some input. This is not meant to be malicious in anyway. so please don't feel that it is.

Being a commercial artist myself, throwing more people at any part of the creative process does not make it go faster.
In fact, it will slow the process down. (at first)

This mindset is one of the most aggravating parts of the industry because every client seems to think that way.

Some examples:

If you hire a new artist for your concept team, he/she will not be consistent with the rest of the team. This will lead to multiple rounds of revisions and frustration.

The old team has been painting/drawing/modelling in the same style for months and have developed short hands.

They've got libraries of their own assets that they can reuse and an understanding of their own work files so they can effectively hit their deadlines. (try wading through someone else's work file... yuck)

A new artist will not be able to utilize these as efficiently until he/she spends enough time settling into the creative atmosphere.

THE best thing to do is to just give these guys some time. Time is the only thing that creates a good product. Not more people.


anyhow. Just my experienced point of view. You are welcome to disagree.

I suggest patience.

The art team does all of those ^_^

@ Guildo Crow - in your experience , should it take more than a year to create 12 models ie the racial dropsuits

@ Guildo Crow - in your experience , should it take more than a year to create 12 models ie the racial dropsuits

Haha, for the person interested in how they model trees

http://www.speedtree.com/


As far as I am aware almost everyone and their mothers use this beast of an app.


i would not be surprised if the Art team uses a version of this to supplement their assets.

instead slows it down ruins quality

It does when the artists are working on other stuff too.

Well, I gotta call you on Fighters, because I'm telling you right now: flying those in our current redlines would SUCK.

Funny thing is that the game design team is apparently the bottleneck for weapon customization, because we had a post in IRC a while back from one of the art guys saying the visual assets are already finished.

It seems the teams aren't cooperating too well on what they're releasing and when.

@ Guildo Crow - in your experience , should it take more than a year to create 12 models ie the racial dropsuits

After that, they have to actually make a playable model. More straightforward, though takes time. After that it needs to be tested and given it's statistics... Even more time.

The issue is making them look good.