The correct name of the profession is a technical artist or a graphics programmer?

Question

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I can’t understand the confusion between professions that are at the junction of a programmer and a modeller, there are many names .. under the same name there are different requirements, and different professions fit the same requirements. There is also the concept of a render programmer .. is it the same? Or are all three different professions? The question was prompted by Galenkin's podcast about technical artists. Thanks

Answer 1

There is no such profession as "modeler programmer". A modeler is an artist, in his package where he models, most often a certain PL is built in, most often again a python. On it, he can write scripts to perform routine tasks in modeling, or if he fumbles very well for the work of the package in which he works, he can write tools for himself, again, not very complicated and most often limited api for python (if there is a python) of this package. This person is not a programmer, he is a modeler. For him, the language in his package is far from being the main tool. There are also programmers in graphics (who would have thought), "render programmer" is again a loose concept. This may not be his specialization, this is a person who writes either the same package for modeling from scratch, or writes a plugin for him, for some kind of simulation, again, look towards RayFIre for 3dMax. There are people in the same area who write plugins for 2D software, or the software itself, also some fundamental things, such as spatial filters and other tricks, all sorts of trackers (tools that track certain objects in the picture). There is also a certain average person, I think you asked about 3D in terms of game development, but I answer in terms of 3D in film production, I’m not sure if there are such people there, but I think there is, namely a pipeline artist, a person whose task is to develop pipelin 'but studios, automation and support for the working environment of artists, development of tools for them, not of the same complexity as the previous subspecies, not fundamental things, but for example, using the same python, write some tool for the modeler to more conveniently build polygons. This in the field of 3D graphics is: artists who can use PL for themselves in a package, writing (saving) small scripts, which is not their profession, developers of tools of light and medium complexity, and support for the technical part of the studio, and fundamentalist programmers who write some fundamental things for packages, besides any simulation and other things. And of course, there are people who develop algorithms on the basis of which people from the previous list write their plugins, but this subspecies is already more of a mathematician and physicist than a programmer. I hope I correctly understood your question and the sheet is knurled for good reason. who write some fundamental things for packages, again, any simulation and other things. And of course, there are people who develop algorithms on the basis of which people from the previous list write their plugins, but this subspecies is already more of a mathematician and physicist than a programmer. I hope I correctly understood your question and the sheet is knurled for good reason. who write some fundamental things for packages, again, any simulation and other things. And of course, there are people who develop algorithms on the basis of which people from the previous list write their plugins, but this subspecies is already more of a mathematician and physicist than a programmer. I hope I correctly understood your question and the sheet is knurled for good reason.

Answer 2

Strictly individually for the tools used.
For example, if a person embodies the designer's visions in css and html and a little javascript, then he is a 'layout' and is engaged in 'layout'.

Answer 3

The name of the profession, which fully reflects the duties, is generally not very clear for the vast majority of professions.
Call it what you want. Anyway, in such cases, they look not at the title of the position, but at the experience and skills.
The bottom line is who needs it.
Most companies don't care how perfectly the job title matches the profession.

Answer 4

What's the difference?