I'm a tech artist.
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I'm a tech artist. And I find the whole idea of having a dedicated person to "translate between programmers and artists" incredibly stupid.
Not only are you the bottleneck, it also makes the other 2 sides really lazy. Artists feel they don't have to care about tech (cuz that's "programmer stuff") and programmers don't have to care about learning how the things they program are actually used.
It's not agile. It prevents cross team learning. It builds silos - Talk to each other!
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I'm a tech artist. And I find the whole idea of having a dedicated person to "translate between programmers and artists" incredibly stupid.
Not only are you the bottleneck, it also makes the other 2 sides really lazy. Artists feel they don't have to care about tech (cuz that's "programmer stuff") and programmers don't have to care about learning how the things they program are actually used.
It's not agile. It prevents cross team learning. It builds silos - Talk to each other!
@kwramm I for one am totally cool with the idea of there being an industry-wide mandate for all programmers to learn some basic competency as artists and vice versa.