Art asset
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An art asset, in computer graphics and related fields (particularly video game and visual effects production) is an individual piece of digital media used in the creation of a larger production. Art assets include synthetic and photographic bitmaps (often used for texture mapping, 3D models consisting of polygon meshes or curved surfaces), shaders, motion captured or hand-animated animation data, video and audio samples.
The term "art" is used to distinguish the creative (or real-world) elements of a production from the software or hardware used to create it: there is no requirement that the data represents anything artistic.
