Anthony O Donnell

This is how Disney animations were made before computers.

We had a superb time visiting @Futureworks_Mcr yesterday, where our Art Director, Anthony, Senior Artist, Eleanor and Senior Concept Artist, Ben, spoke to students about the games industry in addition to helping set an industry brief for the upcoming year. Great work team!

The only thing he got right was that games are not a charity. Everything else is obtuse. Yes games got more expensive but that’s because projects are overwhelmingly mismanaged and the industry is rife with an executive layer that doesn’t play games. This is compounded by how games are funded and the fact that so many studios are being consolidated. The worst thing to happen to games was private equity noticing we are the largest media industry and expecting us to make ROI like the tech industries. Invest, inflate, go public. The games industry uses tech, but we are a creative industry, and that seems to be forgotten by too many in charge. I’ve argued with people before that we are more like film, we use a lot of the same tech as film, but we are a part of the arts and media.