What Is A Graphics Programmer?

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While graphics programming is the magic behind all the beautiful imagery on your computer screens, it's incredibly niche and hard to figure out. What do they even do? How do you become one? How do I get started? Is it hard? All of this will be answered and more!

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This video is dedicated to my friend, Alotryx.

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[Acerola_t]

Thanks for 100k subs! 1 million next ofc

[AresAnno]

My biggest lesson from this video is that I should have a portfolio and not just leave my finished/abandoned projects in the trash bin

[amin]

As a graphics programmer (AAA), I can say that everything said in this video is 100% true. I think this video is like gold as I've never seen anything this useful on web. Acerola, thank you so much for your work. I am sure a lot of students or people who are thinking about a career in this field would find your videos very valuable.

[TheTrienco]

That intro alone gave me flashbacks to the course at Uni. "Modern displays go up to 1024x768".. and that's where you realized the prof had been using the same script for at least 20 years.

[pepis]

Bro this is literally me what the fuck

I'm a CompSci major working on my own OpenGL engine to learn graphics on my own. My goal is a bit different than yours (I wanna become a college graphics professor), but it's so refreshing and inspiring to see that I'm not the only person who enjoys this field. Most people of my COMPUTER SCIENCE major don't even know what I mean when I say I want to study the field of computer graphics. It's such a niche topic. I sometimes almost feel like it doesn't exist.

And you summarized what I love about it so well too. I love it because you're making art with code and math. It's so fucking awesome.

Thank you for this video. I had left my engine abandoned for a couple of months cause of school, judo, the gym, etc. but you've given me renewed motivation. Thank you!

[physbuzz]

What is a graphics programmer but a miserable pile of floating point tricks?

[AlejandroRodriguezJr]

As a technical artist in multiple industries I really appreciate your segment about the difference between our roles. I’ve never heard it explained clearer! Especially as the roles of tech artists continue to blur

[siennathesane]

I'm a Principal Engineer who's working towards career changing from systems development (kernels, networking, storage, etc.) to graphics programming. Here's the path I'm taking. The books "Real-Time Rendering" and "Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation" are life savers. Make a portfolio with Vulkan demonstrating competency and understanding of graphics programming, build a simple toy engine, and then go chase down what you want. Bonus points if you add ECS to your toy engine as well!

[crimson-foxtwitch]

15:40 Fun fact: the Decima engine was named after Dejima, a Japanese island which was the singular trading post Japan had with the Dutch Empire during the 17th century. The engine didn’t have a name until Guerilla was prompted to give it one whenever Kojima Productions wanted to use it for Death Stranding.

[Squidcat]

I’m a CS masters student trying to become a graphics programmer (and desperately avoiding webdev) and I’ve never seen a video as inspirational as this one. It’s really refreshing to see someone speak to the intermediate level, and to the lack of a straightforward way into graphics from an academic CS background. Great video!

[gallowslovesyou]

I just want to say that putting a cat on screen while you do an ad read is so manipulative, and I just love that for you.

[Console.Log]

I made a 3D engine in scratch in a weekend, and just from the small amount of time I spent programming a simple engine using blocks, I realised it was a lot more complicated than I thought it'd be. Happy birthday Acerola!

[motenai]

Honestly i wish there was a video like this for every career path available. I want to learn Unreal Blueprints and after doing a course on basics, the path ahead felt nebulous and very uncertain. The way you lay down very clearly the path you followed in your field is inspiring.

[JoshMOSH]

Man, as someone about to finish a CS undergrad degree and hoping to get into graphics programming afterward, I can’t even express how much I needed to hear literally everything in this video.

[Fricasso]

My main takeaway from this video is that my childhood sucked.

[gabryx]

Gotta say sometimes it is a bit disheartening to see such successful people that are also so young. Being 18-19yo with a diploma and a bachelor's is insane, let alone starting programming just 6 years ago and being so good at it! I'm 30yo and i thought i kinda knew my stuff after bachelor's, master's and PhD but the more I watch videos and see my super young colleagues around me the more I feel like I've wasted my time!
But everyone had a different life path, no way on earth I could have skipped high school or afford any extra experience outside of Uni!
Props to you man! Despite the learning, it's obvious that you are very talented and you chose the right calling for you, love your tutorials :)

[rudiklein]

Incredible start of your career. Your perseverance is great. I hope you get what ever makes you happy.

[souptime]

Happy birthday Acerola! I really needed this video, I’m currently struggling with just about everything you brought up in this video and this gave me the motivation and direction I needed.

[dngd]

People calling you not professional feels like some external gate keeping because they feel insecure. I’d ignore them. Congrats on your job trajectory thus far, given your passion and clear intellect you will go far.

Also: you have a clear talent for explaining highly complex ideas. Your videos are understandable even to a lowly systems engineer like myself.

[jorntumrongwit]

Holy crap this came at just the right time. I'm in my 3rd year of college right now and is really considering graphics programming, but much like you there's not a lot of resources in my college to go by. This is going to be a godsend moving forward. Genuinely, thank you so much for all you've provided for aspiring graphics programmer like me.

Now off to get real-time rendering