Guild Charter - Technical Artistry


  • Meeting times: Fridays 2 PM - 3 PM
  • Meeting location: Stauffer Communications, ASU Tempe Campus, Zoom
  • Guild coordinator: Steven Hernandez

Guild Purpose and what is a Technical Artist


The Technical Artistry guild is united by a common interest in optimizing and integrating artistic assets efficiently into interactive digital environments. This includes but is not limited to Lighting, Shaders, Visual Effects, and Particle Systems in digital environments.


Technical Artists create Lighting, Shaders, Visual Effects, Particle Systems, and more — producing high-quality creative work within project constraints.


Experiential Learning


Every member of our guild will have hands-on opportunities to practice:


  • Setting up Lighting, Shaders, Visual Effects, Particle Systems, and more, iterating until their final form.
  • Facilitating discussions, presenting to an audience, receiving feedback, giving feedback, and managing questions about the level design in a stakeholder-or-team meeting environment.
  • Setting up and using common software such as Unreal Engine, Unity, other game engines, Blender, Maya or 3DS max, Adobe After Effects, Houdini, Cinema 4D, Nuke, Fusion, Final Cut Pro, and various other rapid prototyping files and programs.

Foundational Knowledge


Every member of our guild will have the opportunity to learn:


  • Fundamentals of the planning, feedback, implementation, iteration, and best practices.
  • An interdisciplinary understanding of your project's tools: Lighting, Shaders, Visual Effects, Particle Systems, and game engines.

Competencies


Every member of our guild can gain proficiency in the following:


  • Excellent communication skills in both spoken and written formats, with appropriate tone and professionalism for every situation.
  • Strong organizational skills to kickstart and develop a proper plan to implement Lighting, Shaders, Visual Effects, Particle Systems, and more, to design within a project.
  • Effective collaboration with diverse team roles (programmers, artists, designers, film crew, engineers, etc) by knowing how to "speak their language".