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by free_bip 663 days ago
Disagree. Unless you're going for absolute realism, making assets for a game is 100% under the normal realm of self expression based art. The piece being a part of a larger whole doesn't change that any more than an art piece being a part of a gallery does.
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He is referring to the difference between having corporate motivators for art vs. pure expressionism, not saying that there is zero artistic expression in corporate settings.
Yep, that is exactly what I was going for.
Why yes, my self expression was to remove these exact 5000 triangles on my model so that it has the exact amount of fps that I expected in this cut scene on a computer with the following specs…

Said no one ever. Most game assets are not “self expression based art”