| alfredofroylan said: Can designers be considered artists? Some of my friends are designers BTW |
Personally, I find the word "artist" carries with it a ridiculous pretense. I think it's fucking ridiculous that musicians want to be called "artists" now and if someone ever tried to apply the term "artist" to my chosen field of design, I'd firmly correct them.
As an aside, an artist who isn't starving isn't really an artist at all.
Miyamoto isn't an "artist" unless he works in the art department, like a 3D artist, texture artist, etc.
In the development field, the word "artist" denotes a very specific portion of a dev team.
"I mean, c'mon, Viva Pinata, a game with massive marketing, didn't sell worth a damn to the "sophisticated" 360 audience, despite near-universal praise--is that a sign that 360 owners are a bunch of casual ignoramuses that can't get their heads around a 'gardening' sim? Of course not. So let's please stop trying to micro-analyze one game out of hundreds and using it as the poster child for why good, non-1st party, games can't sell on Wii. (Everyone frequenting this site knows this is nonsense, and yet some of you just can't let it go because it's the only scab you have left to pick at after all your other "Wii will phail1!!1" straw men arguments have been put to the torch.)" - exindguy on Boom Blocks
