Generally the more money that depends on their systems being functional without errors or interruptions, the more an industry is willing to pay for devs.

However in addition to that there is also the supply-demand effect: in demand specialists for which there are few available experts get paid more than people doing the kind of work for which there are a lot more experiences professionals around.

3D graphics programmers would benefit from the second effect but generally not from the first.

As a comparison, for example Quants (who program complex mathematical models used in asset valuation software for complex assets such as derivatives) in Investment Banking in London - thus who gain from both effects - about a decade ago had salaries of around £300k per year as they’re both working on critical software elements in systems used for managing billions of dollars of assets and have a very rare expertise (they’re usually people with Mathematics or Physics Masters or Doctorates who are also developers and who also have quite a lot of specific knowledge of the business of investment banking, which all adds up to a very rare combination of skillsets)