That's the reason that I left the design/art world and majored in software engineering. I was repeatedly stumping my teachers by asking them questions like "wh

That's the reason that I left the design/art world and majored in software engineering. I was repeatedly stumping my teachers by asking them questions like "why would I use a jpg instead of a bitmap" or "which video codec is better for what we are using?" I routinely got answers like, "just use whatever one looks better." It really starts to get annoying when you leave the 2D Photoshop/Illustrator world and get into 3D and animation design. There's so much animation that has to be automated procedurally or just makes more sense once you understand how the application actually works.