Re: Interactive storytelling and me; and a challenge

["Brandon J. Van Every" <vanevery@indiegamedesign.com>]

thom@indiana.edu wrote:

> Brandon, impressionistic painting 'was' art (19th century) and the stuff that 
> was painted 'back then' still is art but if you are an impressionist today you 
> are a decorator.
>  
Sorry, no.  There is little point in debating this particular issue 
further, as you seem to have extremist opinions on what 'counts' as Art.

> Mel is a scripting language for Maya and actually every single significant 3d 
> package on the market today has an equivalent scripting langauge. The language 
> is tool for the artists. The language by itself produces nothing. My point is 
> that human beings create art of all sorts. If a human isn't directly in the mix 
> no art comes out.
>  
True for 3D modeling / animation packages.  I don't think those guys do 
too much procedural modeling.