Game Connect 08 - Teaching Artists to Code

Teaching Artists to Code and Why It's Such a Good Idea

Matt Ditton, Technical Artist, Pandemic Brisbane

Matt has been making games in Brisbane for about 9 years and he's been through almost every part of the art team including character modeller, level modeller, lead artist, asset manager, and technical artist. He's currently working at Pandemic Brisbane, and is about to become principal technical artist on team alpha there.

These days he concentrates his efforts on the data side of art and games, focussing on the art tools and pipeline integration. To this end, his exporter and pipeline tools are finding fans across the seas at Pandemic L.A. This year, Matt has been working part time for the Queensland College of Art in the new bachelor of games design. This year's long foundation subjects in programming for artists forms a basis for his talk today on why artists in gaming should learn code.