I want to eventually work in the VideoGame indistry and I mainly want to be a Modeler/Animator but I am cerious.

What level of Mathematical skill do you need to work in those 2 fields?

I wouldn't think much. What would be the use of math in modeling? Maybe in the animation though, but i'm not sure.

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If you can count without using your fingers, you should be good.

Modeling and animation, I dont think that much at all, but for programming and AI quite a bit.

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for graphics i think the only time you would need it is when you want things to follow a mathematical curve for prettyness

or if you were part of the development team that makes the game engine

or like gster said, if you were doing the AI... although in my experience i haven't at all had to use any of my math and philosophy in AI... other than in bayesian learning... but that was applied math sort of stuff and non-math stuff like probability :eek3:

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Probablity is maths based.

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For Modelling and Animation work its your artwork and demoreel that will get you the job... You could be as thick as on Ox but if your artwork is outstanding you stand a better chance of getting the job.

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I can't imagine that being good at math would HURT your chances of getting a job, but it probably won't harm you that much. Things really don't need mathematical exactness like formulae and stuff in modeling and animation because you can usually just use your eye and figure out how things should be, although for object motion having a base in physics may be helpful.

Still, it really is art, so the math that's involved isn't particularly important IMO.

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For modelling you could look into the catmull clarke formula for subdivisions (basicly smooth polys) just that having knowlage of algorithms some times makes a big difference, for instance I saw a presentation about the neuclus solver by Jos Stam, I now understand how it works and it makes a big difference in getting the best out of it, with minimal effort on the computer and/or the user as well as getting more accurate results!

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Originally posted by gster123
Probablity is maths based.

Originally Posted by

it's not math, its stats

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Maya, XSI, Photoshop, AfterEffects, Motion, Illustrator, Flash, Swift3D

and stats is maths.

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"No pressure, no diamonds" Thomas Carlyle

not in my books

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that's a "Ch" pronounced as a "K"

Computer skills I should have:
Objective C, C#, Java, MEL. Python, C++, XML, JavaScript, XSLT, HTML, SQL, CSS, FXScript, Clips, SOAR, ActionScript, OpenGL, DirectX
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gster is right. Its all part of math

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Originally posted by Chirone
not in my books

Originally Posted by

How can you take data and represent it as either a percentage or a ratio without using basic maths? It is maths, probability is maths, statistics is maths.

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without using basic maths?

if that's how you want to define maths then everything in science and business is maths

i would say why i think stats is different to maths but i think it would take this thread waay off topic

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Computer skills I should have:
Objective C, C#, Java, MEL. Python, C++, XML, JavaScript, XSLT, HTML, SQL, CSS, FXScript, Clips, SOAR, ActionScript, OpenGL, DirectX
Maya, XSI, Photoshop, AfterEffects, Motion, Illustrator, Flash, Swift3D