As an artist(traditional and computer)and a cartoonist who makes game art, 3d models, textures etc... the amount of work involed the time, the love and the artistic skill is exactly the same as that which i would use if i was working on a traditional piece of work that any person would readily call art.
I mean to sit at my PC and sculpt a low(or high) poly model of what i wish to create from the raw materials of vertexs and faces, to then paint it a skin to wrap it in and give it personality and character, and then to animate it into life... yes it is an art. it takes artistic skill to create it. To design and create any graphical content within a game is art, the musical score of teh game is art it is compossed and created to stir emotions just as any of the great symphonies were, The story (not always) told within the game can often reach artistic levels on par with the great novelists and writers.
Code is not so much art, but it is the ground work and the bones of a game, with out it the art work of the artists and musical scores of the musician and the plot of the writer cant be seen heard or interacted with. So Code while not an real art form in its self, it is essential to the Artistic aspects that make up a game... so shouldnt be looked down on.
Video games are art pure and simple...
ps:- What i dont call art is a pile of open lunch boxes stacked up on an art gallerys floor... thats just a mess and a waist of good space >:P.
Slashdot Mirror
As an artist(traditional and computer)and a cartoonist who makes game art, 3d models, textures etc... the amount of work involed the time, the love and the artistic skill is exactly the same as that which i would use if i was working on a traditional piece of work that any person would readily call art.
I mean to sit at my PC and sculpt a low(or high) poly model of what i wish to create from the raw materials of vertexs and faces, to then paint it a skin to wrap it in and give it personality and character, and then to animate it into life... yes it is an art. it takes artistic skill to create it. To design and create any graphical content within a game is art, the musical score of teh game is art it is compossed and created to stir emotions just as any of the great symphonies were, The story (not always) told within the game can often reach artistic levels on par with the great novelists and writers.
Code is not so much art, but it is the ground work and the bones of a game, with out it the art work of the artists and musical scores of the musician and the plot of the writer cant be seen heard or interacted with. So Code while not an real art form in its self, it is essential to the Artistic aspects that make up a game... so shouldnt be looked down on.
Video games are art pure and simple...
ps:- What i dont call art is a pile of open lunch boxes stacked up on an art gallerys floor... thats just a mess and a waist of good space >:P.