Posts by Kosmo

  • So are video games art?

    The whole meaning of art has suffered greatly in the last 100 years, and ultimately art became means to do money, it became a job just like any job. But we have also at the same time broadened it vastly, now we have not only artists but designers and such who use the "art" for other purposes, like entertainment and merketting.

    So I don't think that you can count out movies and games in modern day art just because they are entertainment, they are as much art as the "real" art, because most of the time it is done for amusement and it's sole purpose today is to entertain, also the art has become more common, these days you don't have to be a king or count to own art.

    But each to it's own I guess, people value stupid things. As I put more value on a good movie than I put on some abstract painting that is elitist and expensive just because what? The person who did it is somehow so special? Better than me? In what way is he so much better than me or anyone just because he painted a painting? Did the painting cure cancer?

  • My new Website

    What kind of header image are you looking for? Maybe I could hel you out there. Or you should check if you find a nice spot on one of your maps to take a screen from and put that there.

    Maybe you could make a spray logo with your nick in it and go in to one of your maps and paint it in and take screen of it and put it there, that would be a neat touch for a mapper.

  • My new Website

    Whoa, header image and the "norwegian level artist" are really really cheesy.. but as always, I say something positive.

    It serves the purpose and the design is no nonsense and goes to the point like a buzzsaw (or something that actually goes to the point unlike buzzsaw).

  • ATi video

    Quote from Section_Ei8ht

    according to the guy that made that, its actually a program he wrote. All he has to do is establish the setting he wants (make all the models and things), and then through an interface, place the music that he wants to play on the certain instuments, and the program does the rest. So if he already has the setting built, he can write a new song and produce a different music video in about 20 minutes (plus rendering time and composition, and whatnot).

    Kosmo has a hunch: I bet he has no problem finding a job

  • Apparently GOD was wrong..

    Quote from mawibse

    Blind as a bat.

    Oh man, I'm called blind by a guy who thinks the king of fairies will take him to heaven... Mom allways warned me of these days.

    Besides, I have faith in modern medicine and science, that doesn't mean that they cay cure everything, but you know what.. if they can't, your voodoo mumbo jumbo won't either

    I have yet to meet a guy who was actually cured by some sort of religion, and I see thousands of people every day that are alive because of modern medical science.

    Kosmo 1, Religious yahoos 0.

  • Apparently GOD was wrong..

    Quote from mawibse

    And you don't see the contempt Kosmo and Pericolos0 shows someone of your faith?

    They are not just finding that any similarities between Religion and Science is preposterous, the way they write about it clearly shows how they look down upon those who have what they lack, faith.

    I have faith, faith that when I happen to be in car crash my seatbelt and airbag will save me, faith that if I ever get severely ill, the modern medicine will have a cure, faith that justice system is good enough to put away those religious yahoos that ruin the life of every fucking person in the whole globe.

    I have faith, what I lack, is blind faith.

  • So are video games art?

    I don't know if it is me splitting hair or everybody else over generalizing things, but everyone speak game graphics as "art" by default.

    I don't consider myself as an artist, I make graphics for various medias like ad agencies and sometimes dabble with game graphics. Do I consider everything that is graphical as art in games? No I don't, do I consider some graphics in games to be art, yes I do.

    Why is this? Well, it's simple, even if I worked at a game developer as a graphic designer (or artist as some of you like to say) many of my work would be "children of labor", just something I HAD to whip up, because the boss said so. But then there are the things that I put love in to them, things that I look forward to do, something that speaks to me and it is something unique. A character model is a good example of this.

    It's like when artists used to have appretices who mixed paint and made canvases, some even painted the backgrounds for the master to paint a portrait on. But is the background itself art? I don't consider it to be, it's turns in to art when the portrait itself is painted on it.

    I would be rather arrogant bastard to call myself an artist if I worked at game developer, since not EVERYTHING I make is something unique and magnificent centerpiece.

  • So are video games art?

    Quote from killertomato

    That's simple, Kosmo: it's more unique plus it is directly from the hand of the artist.

    I'm not an expert art-fan but a 300 yr old painting says something about the culture the artist lived in, his thaughts and the way things were back then. It's also interesting to realize that the paint itself has been brought on the fabric 300 yrs ago by someone who lived right then.

    So when there are 300 years old games, you will consider them as art?

    And how exactly video games don't represent the current culture? They are afterall a major part of pop-culture.

    Quote from killertomato

    Maybe that's the reason why there aren't any museums filled with videogames?

    There are loads of museums dedicated to videogames. I have even visited one in germany.

  • So are video games art?

    Quote from killertomato

    But IMHO it's a cheap form of art. All videogames have a price and are accesable for everyone. A Da Vinci painting or Mozart's 9th symphony have alot more going on.

    I'd say that over 90% art is done to be sold, and most are quite affordable, it's just less than 0.01% of art that becomes Mona Lisa or Beethoven's Eroica.

    And there ARE games that are being made out of sheer love for gaming, most notably modding community for various games.

    And to say that a work made on only one medium (e.g. painting or symphony) has more going on is rather strange, by what measure they have more going on than, say a game or a movie?