Principal Technical Artist & Programmer
The history of Bossa’s art pipeline is also, in many ways, my own path into becoming a Tech Artist and programmer.
Over the past 15 years the tools, languages, and systems have changed repeatedly. What hasn’t changed is the underlying question:
“How do we keep artists doing what they are best at, by removing unnecessary friction?”
In my last “Math For 3D Artists” post, I took a look at the Dot Product which is a simple, and immediately useful for artists, especially when writing shaders.
The Cross Product however is a powerful tool in the 3D rendering pipeline responsible for a lot of triangle calculation which makes what 3D artists do, work. In this post I’m going to explore what the Cross Product enables, and a more accessible use case for artists in Shader Graph.
Autodesk’s Maya is full of keyboard shortcuts, but none of them are as the potentially destructive as paste – ctrl-v.
I finally reached a point recently where I’d lost enough time to this, so I decided to fix it.