WOW! Now this is a CD box set I NEED to get! GTA VICE CITY are you kidding me! Is to is the best soundtrack in a game ever? 🔥🎮😎 also which radio station is your favourite?
A new documentary, "Grand Theft Hamlet," is filmed within Grand Theft Auto Online, and tells the story of the first staged production of a Shakespeare play in a multiplayer online video game. "The doc is an impressive piece of machinima, a niche but increasingly utilized method of filmmaking that exclusively utilizes in-game graphics to create a cinematic experience," writes Allegra Frank for Daily Beast. Here's the full story (may be paywalled).
this makes me happy. was part of the netart scene back in the 1990s when all these digital art forms were created, and was reminiscing about the early days of Rooster Teeth and Macromedia's machinema festivals.
i thought the genre was all but dead. thank goodness the babies are columbusing artf orms we GenXers created more than 30 years ago.
‘GTA VI’ Has Already Sparked a Bizarre Moral Panic Fit For Our Age
The GTA franchise is the perfect fodder for a moral panic. It’s massively popular, violent, and garishly stupid. The series has long courted controversy, and the panic accompanying each entry says something about the era in which it occurs. It’s early days, but I see two overlapping strains of panic hitting the GTA VI discourse. The first is that the game will lead players astray into a life of pornography, crime, and sloth.
I analyzed the GTA VI trailer with my game engine eyes. 👀
It's making heavy use of motion blur. There are no reflections of off-screen dynamic objects, which hints towards conventional screen space reflections instead of ray tracing. In the first scene, I could identify an artifact (see white circle) almost certainly coming from temporal anti-aliasing, which confirms the footage has been rendered with real-time methods. (not neccessarily in real time)
What's impressive to me is the overall absence of artifacts. TAA is normally very noticeable, but it could be concealed by the motion blur, which is often done on purpose.
There is one scene where multiple wired fences overlap each other, where TAA would often show difficulties. Unfortunately, the video compression makes it impossible to really judge this shot.
The mirrors in the car scene at 1:01 show clear TAA artifacts due to the missing depth information. I can also see some lens flares which I assume have been added during video editing, they look very out of place.