My good friend Rick Stirling has put up another in his series of “Game Art for Beginners”. This episode in the harrowing journey from polygonal wimp to digital maven is called “Introduction to Alien Brain”. For those that are not in the know, AlienBrain is a revision control system or “Asset” control system in this case, since it is aimed primarily at artists.

There are free alternatives like Subversion, which while free are not designed specifically for art assets but do work pretty darn well for versioning and reverts and the various things you do with such a system.

So go ahead and click on the article and enlighten yourself to toys the big boys use.

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