Yeah that movie gave an odd impression for sure but I am talking more about art style the games pretended to be "photo real" starts to give you. Certain detail fatigue you eyes are getting . I blame too much of procedural approach and increased sampling in PBR shaders. Few years ago the shaders looked like what Substance…
I feel the synthetic feel in games and 3D in general has two main causes: - Lack of technical capacity of engine (or performance and time constraints when authoring) Engines are very good at displaying an staggering amount of tris now, have better lighting solutions, high resolution textures and more. Yet as pointed out…
I'd like to hear opinions on what I somehow noticed maybe not in every but many recent games as a trend. I mean not an exactly same "uncanny valley " people discussed decade ago about Beowoolf and Polar express and imo related mostly to animation but rather more subtle, more general thing a picture get after crossing…
I don't think its quality drop exactly. My idea is that "photo-real" on realtime rasterizing engine whatever advanced it might be still requires certain level of special visual style , an art transformation of reality . Not like usual stylized hand-painted games, typical for mobile games but still lots of show vs hide…
" Same scene looks perfect in path tracing render probably but typical on-line rasterized render makes it look sort of dry and "uncanny" art style wise. I long tried to find what it resembles to me till randomly find a well known "rainbow" portrait of Elizabeth 1. Full of tiny details done with perfectly same attention in…
I am trying to figure out is this "more details create superior results" is what players want really. They IMO often misinterpret their own impression. Like all that talks of lighting on games forums while all the games have mostly same lighting for pretty a while already. The difference is only what can accept dynamic…