Gamedev, originally a hat-juggling indie dork but now increasingly specialized in graphics programming. Day job working on surgical simulators, night job crafting artisinal Posts
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immortals of aveum looks very pretty with the help of UE5 lighting and high-detail geometry, but it's also generic enough that any short clip looks like an engine tech demo
crossing the uncanny valley to recreate the aesthetic of a direct-to-dvd stargate atlantis spinoff movie for only 50x the budget
I know a guy who worked on that game. He'd tell you that you are correct.
My favorite part of over-reliance on facial capture is that you end up with the equivalent of a bunch of B-movies sharing extras and stuntmen because you'll just see Debra Wilson show up for the fourth time and go "haven't I seen her in something?". Hell, in writing this I looked shit up and realized that army commander lady is played by Gina Torres who was Zoe from Firefly, and that has solved a 30 hour brainworm I had the entire time I was playing.
