New blog post! I wrote about Eriko Tamura’s Oz, a Wizard of Oz pastiche for kids with shockingly good photography and some pretty cool CGI design. I've seen a lot of 90s stuff that experimented with that photography-blended-into-CGI look, but I haven't seen as many games that did lighting work to actually integrate the live action elements into the CGI world like this. http://cdrom.ca/games/2022/08/28/eriko-tamura-oz.html
If the style of those CGI characters looks familiar, it’s because it’s by Hitomi Amakawa, who’s better-known for her work on the PlayStation like Jumping Flash and Astronoka.