Ahhhh now I understand hehe.

Are there guys that can do both(high level art and coding) or is it simply too big of a job?

Very interesting. Seems like games today are so huge that one game would have many many artists and coders. Where back in the early days it was simply one coder and maybe 2 artists lol. Does a 2 year course(2.5 days a week) sound like a good enough time to learn game art and animation?

Very cool :)

You say studios like Naughty Dog can do such amazing work because of bigger budgets but is that because of greater man power or because they can afford better technology?

Ok so I'm pretty much 85% set on doing this course now lol. Any tips you can recommend for getting ahead of the pack? It starts in Febuary so I'm thinking of learning Zbrush at least from now til then?

Does Zbrush need a really good laptop/PC?

As someone who knows quite a bit programming but hasn't yet had much professional experience, I have to say that programming itself doesn't takes almost no math or physics knowledge. Technically you don't need any, I think, but it helps a lot if you understand basic things such as addition, subtraction, multiplication etc... So basic programming skills don't require practically any skills in math or physics, or any other special skills for that matter. Math helps in having a proper way of thinking, but it's not strictly necessary.

That said, I imagine some more specialized fields such as game development might really benefit from, and on professional leve even require, some more domain-specific skills such as math or physics. For example, to really understand computer graphics (on a programming level), you should have a good grasp of linear algebra. And for more advanced stuff, you'll probably need even more advanced knowledge. Building a physics engine? You're probably going to need some knowledge of physics. AI? That's quite a large domain, and depending on the needs you could need either nothing or some pretty high-level math and/or statistics.

If you want to be an indie developer though, I imagine you don't need any special skills to be a sufficiently good programmer. Having worked on a couple of smaller (practically unreleased) game projects, I don't remember needing any special skills. Of course being a good programmer is a skill in itself (the architecture of anything but the most trivial projects is going to be non-trivial, to start with).

Thanks again. Definitely alot more prepared now and can make a more informed decision.

Thanks! Very informative. I see some tutorials on Youtube in regards to coding but alot of it is very drawn out and basic. Any good videos/website you recommend?

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