The Real Challenge in Building an NFT Generator
What’s so difficult about creating 5,000 art pieces when it’s all done by code anyway? When it comes to discussions on NFT art, this is quite the common sentiment among casual observers. And as the technical artist behind the Big Bear Syndicate NFT collection, I must confess that I held these same thoughts
How We Procedurally Generated Disney Melee Mania’s Vegetation
As a technical artist, I’m most excited about finding new ways to improve our art workflow using math and code. In Disney Melee Mania, each of our holo-arenas are lined with trees, rocks, bushes, and flowers around the perimeters — and thanks to the power of algorithms, they were all generated by our artists in
Learning To Learn
As a budding technical artist, I’ve had to steadily pick up skills from across the art-to-tech spectrum: Unity. Maya. Modeling, rigging, animation. C# and Python. On this journey, I’ve come to understand that the real challenge lies not in figuring out what to learn, but rather how to learn.There’s a wealth of tutorial videos