link: unsettling geek art
Sep. 27th, 2003 01:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
egypturnashStaying Pictures and Tom Thumb. Strange little depressing pieces of 3D art, done from a demo-coder perspective (by a guy who works at Peter Molyneux's Lionhead Studios). The cool thing about these two pieces is that large portions of them are calculated upon 'performance', in realtime in the case of 'Staying Pictures' ('Tom Thumb' has lots of post-render video effects applied). Unfortunately you have to take his word for it, as he doesn't have executables you could download and run on your machine a few times to see different incarnations. Well, he does have the full source for TT, if you're quite insane.
(On the subject of Lionhead and trippy generative visuals, I'm still waiting to see what Jeff Minter's Unity is going to be like!)
(On the subject of Lionhead and trippy generative visuals, I'm still waiting to see what Jeff Minter's Unity is going to be like!)
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Date: 2003-09-27 04:39 pm (UTC)Andy told me a couple weeks back about Jeff Minter teaming up with Lionhead and I just about spewed my beer at him. :D
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Date: 2003-09-27 05:29 pm (UTC)I didn't know it at the time I bought the GC, but Unity is definitely a reason to have a Gamecube.
He keeps a blog as a limited-posting-access forum on the Llamasoft web forum, and occasionally posts teasing screenshots... plus people have put up pointers to a few movies of the demos he's given of Unity in the 'Unity' area of the same forum.
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Date: 2003-09-27 05:48 pm (UTC)no subject
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