an art director is sombody like rick nath, an art director is somebody that basicly like the name suggests directs art, and visual styles for games and art director is essential for a games prodution team just to make sure the overall style for a game is fluent, without one the game would look unfinished and patchy or would never be completed in the first place. An art director has an extreamly creative role, they basicly take a few sketches and words such as dark and creepy from the director then using his own creativity completely create the visual style . Then he goes and gives people jobs to do such as create this charecter that is mean to look evil etc, its extreamly demmanding and stressfull job. art direction in games is very very similar to that of games, creating charecters and atmospheric levels, yet at the same time i think if an art director from the games family and one from the films family swapped roles they may struggle. I think one of the most important skills id need to develop to become an art director is drawing abilities, but that said many other skills would be needed such as understanding how the programs used to design games work. This said i would also need to e able to used photoshop, 3dsmax etc, on top of that id need to be a very imaginative person but id like to think im part way there on that front.
