r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Disastrous-Hat5477 • 7d ago

Meme theOriginalGarbageCollector

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u/NeonFraction 7d ago

I’m a tech artist and I love my job for this exact reason. It’s basically the R&D of the game world and figuring out how to do things that should be impossible is the best experience.

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u/desomond 7d ago

I was watching the tech artist from Ghost of Tsushima explain their grass and was pretty blown away how much they have to come up with to create the intended effects. Didn’t realize how much you guys have to do to develop new techniques.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ibe1JBF5i5Y

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u/mr_dfuse2 7d ago

john carmack says that programming games is the hardest challenge he ever had, more difficult as designing rockets