I find it much easier to remesh and deal with textures with a crappy 3d reconstruction vs working with 2d images only. I also shoot HDRI and photos for PBR. I find sculpting tools super useful for VR, but yeah its still an Art even with all the AI help.
For someone who played outside growing up, ray tracing is a nice addition, the baked lighting always drove me crazy in my games. I put it up there when I noticed Physics engines stopped feeling like I was floating through a game.
Can you share any anecdotes, or some more details? I've been watching this "app generation", and I've read Prensky's nonsense about "digital natives", so I'm always interested in concrete examples of how it's playing out. Thanks!
For example, students now regularly turn up at universities unable to use files or folders. They have to be given basic IT lessons before they can start to work with data.
Its poorer and weaker than it was. widespread inequality, almost fifteen years of domestic austerity, brexit, widespread regulatory capture, privatisations and crumbling infrastructure, huge reductions in state capability (especially military), delusional nostalgic nationalist politics, three decades of getting involved in disastrous and/or illegal wars.
This sounds a lot like the US as well. I lived in London and Surrey County as a kid. Since brexit I ask my friends so you decided to Londonize your whole country as that seems like the only viable path forward. I use a lot of British software, Nuke, Affinity, HDR Light Studio and I can see more of it develop. That said has to be painful to deal the austerity (which is wild as the UK still runs a deficit).
