Tim Soret
@timsoret • 50,950 subscribers
Founder @oddtalesgames Creative Director @TLN_Game Art Direction, Cinematography, Tech Art. Atoms, Bits, Memes, Genes. Courage, Freedom, Futurism, Humanism.
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Educative minute: Film twitter, please know that all these "amateur 35mm scans" comparison are deceptive. 1. Films are made of atoms (nitrate, acetate, polyester), and unlike digital data, they are vulnerable to entropy like everything else. 2. For the same movie, not all theatrical projection prints were made with the same process. Most were poor quality with short shelf-life (6 years according to Martin Scorsese). 3. Dye compounds are unstable, decaying at different rates over time, their colors degrading, fading & shifting. Notice how most of these "35mm scans" are bluish & faded, with contrast added in post after scanning. 4. Even if you had a perfectly manufactured, flawlessly stored & maintained, and masterfully scanned film, digitalization remains an interpretation process. A projected film is pure light, and mapping a RAW capture to the displayable dynamic range of screens is a subjective process, not a perfect science. So never interpret these 35mm scans as "how a film was supposed to look". No two surviving 35mm films look the same, and none look the way they did at release. These are just films degraded by hundreds of theatrical runs & decade of chemical decay. This organic "instagram filter" evokes a certain nostalgia, but it's an illusion. There is no pristine original to go back to. Even the original negatives stored by studios require month of digital cleaning to be considered "usable". It's all a subjective process.
Tim Soret108,756 次观看 • 6 个月前
In 15s, I lost faith in the Tomb Raider remake. "When I could increase Lara's power, I felt much more engaged". I so disagree. The beauty of classic Tomb Raider is that YOU the player get better, not Lara. What made Tomb Raider's game design legendary was the interplay between moveset & level design. As you mastered Lara's capabilities, you learned what to look for, and how to be faster, more decisive, confident, agile, precise, and lethal. There was nothing to unlock. Just you, vulnerable, versus agressive wilderness, scary ruins unopened for centuries, intimidating heights, perverse traps & terrifying myths. Too many game designers believe their job is adding noise, systems w/ artificial points & stats & skill trees & buffs, as if it was more engaging than a pure kinetic experience.
Tim Soret26,154 次观看 • 2 个月前
In The Last Night, I render a "sky occlusion" map to occlude rain. I had an idea to reuse it for cheap indirect lighting occlusion, by sampling sky visiblity along the direction of the normal. ChatGPT Work 5.6 Sol implemented a visualisation of my idea in ThreeJS in 14 min. Useful for rapid iteration before doing it for real in Unity.
Tim Soret12,931 次观看 • 3 个月前
