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It's a well-written and informative post, it deserves a little more praise than "does nothing in terms of educating readers". What he is discussing is about ae

It's a well-written and informative post, it deserves a little more praise than "does nothing in terms of educating readers". What he is discussing is about aesthetics. There are two things at play here: the big studio business model relies on making blockbusters, so you pack together a few hundred devs and artists and try to pop out the biggest game you can. The other is that many devs are technically trained but not especially artistically educated. They have a limited understanding of lighting, color, framing a scene, etc. Someone who has made some great criticisms of this as well as provided real solutions is Eskil Steenberg.

Aperson4321 9y ago
Link please to Eskil Steenbergs writings!
- aaron-lebo 9y ago
  I'd suggest this vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f90R2taD1WQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f90R2taD1WQ
  - Aperson4321 9y ago
    Thank you! Eskil is such a wizard.
  - corysama 9y ago
    That entire presentation is amazing. I recommend it every chance I get.
xigency 9y ago
The article isn't very concise and is actually quite repetitive, it uses a bunch of jargon (without any description), and shifts blame around. The topics are interesting and the opinions are there, but it certainly could be written better. As a programmer who has done a small amount of work in graphics but hasn't worked in HDR rendering I have no idea what any of these are.... film LUT color grading post process LUT color grade ...but I could write the linked-to shader. So who is he helping? > It alters between putting the blame on technical limitations and ignorance, so I would have liked to see a suggestion on how to address either of these. I second this.
- mattnewport 9y ago
  I think the audience is other games graphics programmers and technical artists who can be expected to understand all this terminology. As a game graphics programmer the article was written appropriately assuming I'm representative of his intended audience (which is implied by his use of 'we').
- jacobolus 9y ago
  CLUT = color look-up table color grading = adjusting the color in an image, as you might do in Photoshop or whatever post process = any image adjustment that happens after the image is originally captured This author is assuming a basic background in lighting / human vision / film technology.
  - xigency 9y ago
    Yes, I understand the acronyms, but they are being used as jargon, not in a instructive way. If I were to talk about a web framework and say, "we've got our JSON files wrong and our package configs are cluttered, and don't get me started on the XML files," it's clear that it is metonymy [1]. Knowing that JSON is JavaScript Object Notation, the package.json is used for Node Package Manager, and that XML is a file format doesn't capture the feeling that a developer might have reading that sentence, and it doesn't instruct. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy From the article: >>> It was Reinhard in years past, then it was Hable, now it’s ACES RRT. And it’s stop #1 on the train of Why does every game this year look exactly the goddamn same? If the problem the author is facing is a gap between art skills and technical skills, then the post could be less angry and more informative about color theory or rendering technology, maybe bridging the needed skills.
    - jacobolus 9y ago
      If you were writing for an audience of people who work with web frameworks all the time, writing JSON and XML and whatever would be entirely reasonable. Though if you look to the sidebar, you can see the author’s recent tweets: > Tonight in "alarming discoveries" is that I went into my WP stats to find heavy traffic from Reddit. From r/pcgaming no less - blech. > Practical consequence is that I'm going to have to write future entries from more basic principles, because this is getting out of hand. So maybe you’ll get your wish.

Aperson4321 9y ago

Link please to Eskil Steenbergs writings!

aaron-lebo 9y ago
I'd suggest this vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f90R2taD1WQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f90R2taD1WQ
- Aperson4321 9y ago
  Thank you! Eskil is such a wizard.
- corysama 9y ago
  That entire presentation is amazing. I recommend it every chance I get.

xigency 9y ago

The article isn't very concise and is actually quite repetitive, it uses a bunch of jargon (without any description), and shifts blame around. The topics are interesting and the opinions are there, but it certainly could be written better. As a programmer who has done a small amount of work in graphics but hasn't worked in HDR rendering I have no idea what any of these are.... film LUT color grading post process LUT color grade ...but I could write the linked-to shader. So who is he helping? > It alters between putting the blame on technical limitations and ignorance, so I would have liked to see a suggestion on how to address either of these. I second this.

mattnewport 9y ago
I think the audience is other games graphics programmers and technical artists who can be expected to understand all this terminology. As a game graphics programmer the article was written appropriately assuming I'm representative of his intended audience (which is implied by his use of 'we').
jacobolus 9y ago
CLUT = color look-up table color grading = adjusting the color in an image, as you might do in Photoshop or whatever post process = any image adjustment that happens after the image is originally captured This author is assuming a basic background in lighting / human vision / film technology.
- xigency 9y ago
  Yes, I understand the acronyms, but they are being used as jargon, not in a instructive way. If I were to talk about a web framework and say, "we've got our JSON files wrong and our package configs are cluttered, and don't get me started on the XML files," it's clear that it is metonymy [1]. Knowing that JSON is JavaScript Object Notation, the package.json is used for Node Package Manager, and that XML is a file format doesn't capture the feeling that a developer might have reading that sentence, and it doesn't instruct. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy From the article: >>> It was Reinhard in years past, then it was Hable, now it’s ACES RRT. And it’s stop #1 on the train of Why does every game this year look exactly the goddamn same? If the problem the author is facing is a gap between art skills and technical skills, then the post could be less angry and more informative about color theory or rendering technology, maybe bridging the needed skills.
  - jacobolus 9y ago
    If you were writing for an audience of people who work with web frameworks all the time, writing JSON and XML and whatever would be entirely reasonable. Though if you look to the sidebar, you can see the author’s recent tweets: > Tonight in "alarming discoveries" is that I went into my WP stats to find heavy traffic from Reddit. From r/pcgaming no less - blech. > Practical consequence is that I'm going to have to write future entries from more basic principles, because this is getting out of hand. So maybe you’ll get your wish.