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I agree - It would be ridiculously easy to do this today with CG. Not just easy, but a few-magnitude-orders easy/fast. It kind of leaves a bad taste about the w

I agree - It would be ridiculously easy to do this today with CG. Not just easy, but a few-magnitude-orders easy/fast. It kind of leaves a bad taste about the whole thing because most people don't know how easy it is to do in CG. I could probably do this in an hour or two, including the fog (which really makes the image) - probably sounds condescending, but I cannot emphasize enough about the triviality of generating this wallpaper in CG. Most people don't realize what today's CG software can do, just look at the new features in Houdini: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIcUW9QFMLE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIcUW9QFMLE

Retric 7y ago
Cool tech, yet every single one of those images look extremely unnatural. I think people get used to seeing CGI so much they simply get used to it. Take the faces in frozen, they are intentionally stylized but in a way that looks utterly freakish. It’s not even that the animators messed up. Somehow rather than people seeing something deep in the uncanny valley most people simply don’t have a problem with this kind of distortion.
- spectramax 7y ago
  You’re making an argument that CGI doesn’t match reality - that’s true and hardly surprising.
  - Retric 7y ago
    Not quite, I am saying CGI looks similar to other CGI. Thus, if you’re going for something memorable and artistic that’s a problem.
sbr464 7y ago
Sorry, I have to (insert lol emoji) a little. While I totally understand your point, GMunk is an insane artist, especially his artwork over the last 1.5 decades. Things move exponentially faster each year. I think large enterprise budgets (and approval processes) affect the creative output, especially when hiring someone like GMunk for a spot (esp in the corporate product space). He already favors a darker style than I can see a Windows campaign favoring. It’s definitely interesting when details of a process like this come out.
thdrdt 7y ago
I do a lot of CG and don't agree with you. Yes you could recreate this in a few hours but cannot create this in a few hours. That's the big difference.
- spectramax 7y ago
  Same here, I do a lot of CG and I feel like taking on this project to show how trivial it is. Lol, what's the difference between recreating and creating?

Retric 7y ago

Cool tech, yet every single one of those images look extremely unnatural. I think people get used to seeing CGI so much they simply get used to it. Take the faces in frozen, they are intentionally stylized but in a way that looks utterly freakish. It’s not even that the animators messed up. Somehow rather than people seeing something deep in the uncanny valley most people simply don’t have a problem with this kind of distortion.

spectramax 7y ago
You’re making an argument that CGI doesn’t match reality - that’s true and hardly surprising.
- Retric 7y ago
  Not quite, I am saying CGI looks similar to other CGI. Thus, if you’re going for something memorable and artistic that’s a problem.

sbr464 7y ago

Sorry, I have to (insert lol emoji) a little. While I totally understand your point, GMunk is an insane artist, especially his artwork over the last 1.5 decades. Things move exponentially faster each year. I think large enterprise budgets (and approval processes) affect the creative output, especially when hiring someone like GMunk for a spot (esp in the corporate product space). He already favors a darker style than I can see a Windows campaign favoring. It’s definitely interesting when details of a process like this come out.

thdrdt 7y ago

I do a lot of CG and don't agree with you. Yes you could recreate this in a few hours but cannot create this in a few hours. That's the big difference.

spectramax 7y ago
Same here, I do a lot of CG and I feel like taking on this project to show how trivial it is. Lol, what's the difference between recreating and creating?