clem@frenzy.sybase.com (03/01/90)
[...] >> We don't have enough graphics artists on the Amiga. >> Just the other day a friend of mine told me Jim Sachs >> and Joe Conti were looking for some people to help >> them out in some Amiga graphics project and couldn't >> find any real artists. They eventually found some >> high school kid who could draw on Amy during a high school demo. >> This same thing happened to Compu-Animate in Arizona. I hear >> some church organization wanted a 30 minute animation and >> Compu-Animate found a local highschool kid who knows his way >> with DPaintIII. Pretty amazing, huh? ^- Not really :-< I'd say Mr. Sachs and Conti probably didn't look very hard, and probably chose by the value of expense rather than quality (see Julie's response below which I agree with.) I've met Mr. Sachs before and heard him talk about the lack of Amiga artists, and to be honest, there isn't as much exposure as there is with programmers. I have many opinions on that :-), but basically it boils down to the work of a programmer having an extended life. Also, haven't you noticed the lack of artists discussions here, in fact on about all BBS? Anytime I start talking about something esoteric, I feel like a voice in the wilderness, so I usually avoid it. I think the real issue here is QUALITY rather than QUANTITY (IMHO). >> -Viet [...good stuff from Julie edited here...] >There's a very simple solution to the problem of finding good Amiga artists. >Pay them what they're worth. I wouldn't be surprised if that quickly brought >them out of the woodwork. How much did they pay those high school kids? This is an age-old problem, Julie; one that's not limited to computer art, as I'm sure you know. I'm sure there ARE many good Amiga artists out there, but I'd sure like to see more of it more often, rather than just at EXPOs and the like. I was real surprised to see Amiga entries at a local SIGGRAPH showing, but very happy about it. Several magazines have gallery sections and that's nice, but I don't know that we're paid for those submissions. We have a local user group that has an artist meeting, and it's been rather poorly attended lately. I guess we ultimately are just talking about a tool; one of many that an artist can use. Being [just] an Amiga artist would be rather limiting, no? \_ > Julie Petersen (LadyHawke@cup.portal.com) )\_ _/ > portal!cup.portal.com!LadyHawke `/)\_ __ // these are the opinions of David Clemons Reply to: clem@frenzy.sybase.com