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<blockquote data-quote="Art Waring" data-source="post: 8729749" data-attributes="member: 7037141"><p>Back to the subject,</p><p></p><p>Speaking from experience as not just an artist, but as a son of a professional freelance artist, and as someone who grew up learning to love art, art is essential for some people. Some people are brought into the hobby by the art alone... but down to the facts.</p><p></p><p>The creator of Oddworld Lorne Lanning has a great interview about the significance of visual aids and the purpose of art in games and in aiding with technical projects outside of gaming (link below).</p><p></p><p>To briefly summarize his origins: Lanning was formerly a freelance graphic designer working for a design company cntracted by the military for making visual concepts of military technology because the very people who were in control of the military could not look at the pages of printed text in front of them and understand what they were looking at, they needed visual aids in order to understand.</p><p></p><p>"the Generals in the pentagon no longer understood what the hell the scientists were talking about"</p><p></p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/BNgPNeCVo30?t=1784" target="_blank">Timestamp 29:44</a></p><p></p><p>Note: Lanning later explains that at the time he needed a job, and didn't really want to work for the ilitary in the first place, but that job did lead to his awakening about the importance of visual aids, and it inspired his creation Oddworld for years to come.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Art Waring, post: 8729749, member: 7037141"] Back to the subject, Speaking from experience as not just an artist, but as a son of a professional freelance artist, and as someone who grew up learning to love art, art is essential for some people. Some people are brought into the hobby by the art alone... but down to the facts. The creator of Oddworld Lorne Lanning has a great interview about the significance of visual aids and the purpose of art in games and in aiding with technical projects outside of gaming (link below). To briefly summarize his origins: Lanning was formerly a freelance graphic designer working for a design company cntracted by the military for making visual concepts of military technology because the very people who were in control of the military could not look at the pages of printed text in front of them and understand what they were looking at, they needed visual aids in order to understand. "the Generals in the pentagon no longer understood what the hell the scientists were talking about" [URL='https://youtu.be/BNgPNeCVo30?t=1784']Timestamp 29:44[/URL] Note: Lanning later explains that at the time he needed a job, and didn't really want to work for the ilitary in the first place, but that job did lead to his awakening about the importance of visual aids, and it inspired his creation Oddworld for years to come. [/QUOTE]
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