Task 7

Is the right person?


”Who is the right person?” is the question that must be answered by the project director, the owner of the company or anyone else who has the authority to employ an Art Director. That resposibillity is almost equal to a risk sometimes and sometimes is not.
A good formula for success for Plan maker (project director, owner of the company) and vision Maker (Art Director) is when both of them respect the idies of each other.

The Dreamers


The key person for a game project is the Art Director. He is the person who coordinates the leaders of the development teams (animation director, chief programmer) and the teams. He must create a remarkable vision for the game and take opinions for that vision, but he must stick to the project plan until he evolves the project with that vision;(is like you create the basic form for a game and then you give your touch with the special vision because the specifics do the deffirence). When the game is developing, research should be done too, and this is another resposibillity for the Art Derector as well as the manage of time. An Art Director must also have good knowldege in art design and programming in order to solve problems, to communicate corectly with the others, and because without this knowldege the deadlines he will set will be wrong.
Is like you heared about a new world and then you have your own dream for a better world (game). Then you have (or gain) the belief followners(the development teams) and you create that world with the followners.

How to be..

I don’t now extacly how, but I’m sure about some things.An Art Director must have good organisation, good communication, to be patient, creative, infectious, to have leadership skills,art – programming knowldege as well as time management. If you don’t want to be an Art Director, you can be a Creative Director whose job is about the environments, the way you can take the sceenshots and the perfomance of the actors (who choose them). So is very similar to Art director’s job. Both of them have the main idea, the “tools” to give life to the idea and the full resposibillity for that. The main difference is that the Creative director take the idea and the vision, and then he must create the film expressing that idea and vision in his own way!