EVE General Discussion

dominix
imicus
condor

Falcon/Blackbird

Put simply, CCP need to massively increase the capacity of the art dept. More ship redesigns/refreshes, more unique space assets and effects, new stations and docking arrays, etc. etc.

I'm getting sick of hearing that there's a bottleneck in Art. Also - pay them more, their work is awesome (apart from the talwar and reaper)

Why does it take so much longer now? How did you get Trinity done all at once?

I rest my case. (for more Art Devs so more art awesomeness + pay them more )

So CCP doesn't have enough art devs to make 4 new ships (what is basically required to rework one ship line) every three months?

Ok next time there is a thing to vote on for what CCP needs to do, I am going to put hire more artists up there.

They out source it all, at least they use too, and they just have a few art devs to touch up the art right?

They don't hire enough people to redo all the ships unless they want to pay for more out sourcing. Look at dust can't even get more than one model done for the dropsuits every 6 months.

with such a small team I'd rather see the art team working onthe look of the game when you are zoomed out, and the map. I mean bang for your buck. Look at any other tactical space game, when you zoom out it looks awesome, and fun.

Please, no more camouflage skins *shudders*

If the likes of Ishukone can have their own colour/texture style, so can the Empire factions!

Every gallante one but the comet,

Where did you get this little gem of factual inaccuracy?

In game, press ESC, go to the tab bar of the ESC menu, and click on the far right hand tab labeled "About Eve". This contains developer credits list, there's a nice section for the art team :)



A few problems with this, one it's not "4 ships at a time" it's an entire T2 class, which contains up to 8 ships.

Second, we tend to think of this as "oh, yeah, I can totally model that in a month!" when we look at a problem like this, where as in reality there's a large process of conception, design, review, and revision that goes into a hull like the Stealth Bombers. Sure it's possible someone can pull and awesome, original design out of thin air that requires very little review and revision to fit into the art style of the game, match lore, and look awesome (and probably a few other things I'm not thinking of). If you can do this reliably year after year then they'd probably like to hire you! Also you're a special, magic, one in a billion person because that's just about impossible.

As for the "HIRE MORE ARTISTS!!!" bit, that's kind of mean to the artists actually. So, they take on more talent specifically to revise ship hulls. When that's done in, say, a year, now what? They'll probably have to fire those artists because they aren't needed anymore and they don't have enough work to justify keeping them around. Never mind where they're going to get the money to pay them in the first place.

TLDR: CCP's art team is awesome and deserves cookies.