ABSTRACT
Ever since these technologies started rapidly advancing, there has been talk that procedural textures and advanced technologies would one day replace artists. This will never happen. As awesome as the technology is, it still takes an artist to make these technologies produce the best visual results. In fact, artists have become more important than ever as technology has become more complex. While programmers give us awesome new technologies, the artist still needs to create and control the input and output of those systems.
