Over at Gamasutra, Bungie’s Steve Theodore discusses in-house custom tools, focusing in particular on environment artists and game editors.
Tools may not make an artist, but they can certainly break one. Planning and advocating for the right tools is a critical job for every art department. It’s also a difficult and delicate game of hot potato, as it can easily devolve into arguments about making other people work hard so we don’t have to.
