Valentine Kozin 🇺🇦

Lead Technical Artist at ☠️Rare☠️ | 🎭 #BAFTA Member
Game developer, Houdini user, maker of pretty things.

[Valentine Kozin 🇺🇦 @NineOfNein]

@Jonathan_Blow Now the US is also run by people fond of making vague, unfalsifiable statements for their followers to ascribe whatever meaning they most prefer to, in favour of clarity of meaning and intent 🤷

[Valentine Kozin 🇺🇦 @NineOfNein]

@SaintBastian @nntaleb You retweeted this two days ago: https://t.co/moRYNAAOLM

[Jash Dholani @oldbooksguy]

Ayn Rand explains how the world's problems are caused by men who refuse to judge

[Valentine Kozin 🇺🇦 @NineOfNein]

@valkraud Is it an OC, or is it Ayn Rand? 😅

[Valentine Kozin 🇺🇦 @NineOfNein]

For folks finally making the jump:

[Valentine Kozin 🇺🇦 @NineOfNein]

Y'all, play and review this gorgeous (and depressing (and gorgeous)) game

[CaravanSandWitch✨➡️ OUT NOW! @SandWitchDev]

Progress!! We're at 92% instead of the previous 91% on the recent steam reviews! We're approaching the 1000s faster than I expected.
And we'll probably have the help of a sale in the near future. I'm so relieved rn you can't imagine 🧡

[Valentine Kozin 🇺🇦 @NineOfNein]

@Tonymation I'd love for someone to do a side by side of what different choices for this shot would have looked like! I.e. placing hands closer, vs shorter focal length etc. I love non-obvious creative shot choices like this!

[Valentine Kozin 🇺🇦 @NineOfNein]

@r0mbag @Taaaaamas It is, which makes the doomsaying either way a bit overblown for me tbh. We'll get this, everyone will play around with it for a day or two, some streamers will get a bit of extra mileage out of playing old games, then everyone will swiftly get bored and move on.

[Valentine Kozin 🇺🇦 @NineOfNein]

Please don't fuck it up 🙏

[Eurogamer @eurogamer]

Detective RPG in the works from "breakaway group" of former Disco Elysium developers

https://t.co/3zsRAqIHdk

[Valentine Kozin 🇺🇦 @NineOfNein]

Imagine being an AGI robot in 2060, looking at Minecraft on a screen, longing for a childhood and a world that was never real.

[Two Minute Papers @twominutepapers]

New video - NVIDIA’s New AI Trains In A Minecraft-like World!
https://t.co/fgS5t3APZz

[Valentine Kozin 🇺🇦 @NineOfNein]

@IcePickLodge Well, exciting, and I do look forward to finally playing the Changeling path in Pathologic 4 one day - but man I wouldn't mind seeing those Kickstarter rewards from Pathologic 2 one day.

[Valentine Kozin 🇺🇦 @NineOfNein]

Either way at some point you end up having to contend with lights and emissive materials doubling up on the work of injecting energy into the scene, which becomes an ever-bigger edge case if you're trying to stay physically accurate.

[Valentine Kozin 🇺🇦 @NineOfNein]

I wonder at what point you get to merge MegaLights and Lumen? Given that ML is effectively just stochastic RT, it feels like a limited, importance-sampled path-tracer on top of Lumen.

[Unreal Engine @UnrealEngine]

We are Mega excited about this in particular 🔦

MegaLights, a new experiential feature in 5.5, enables artists to use orders of magnitude more lights. They are movable and dynamic, with realistic area shadows, and can light volumetric fog. See this capture of our live, real-time demo using Quixel Megascans and KitBash3D assets.

#UnrealFest

[Valentine Kozin 🇺🇦 @NineOfNein]

Is there a world in which something like MegaLights simply becomes part of overall GI? Maybe scanning through lumen cards and replacing lumen traces with area lights, for any surface which is distinctively bright enough?

[Acerola @Acerola_t]

if your response to seeing a rainbow emoji is "ew politics" you probably arent very interested in an inclusive environment and godot made the right decision to remove you

Financially backing a project doesn't entitle you to bigotry

[Valentine Kozin 🇺🇦 @NineOfNein]

I love these so much 🥰

[Angi Pauly / fool moon ceramics @angi_pauly]

sketch vs final! I loved this piece

[Valentine Kozin 🇺🇦 @NineOfNein]

@jadekaibap Bluesky is a pretty good alternative to Twitter, but somewhat struggling to engage with it as few folks from my immediate social circle are active on it - do hope it gains more traction though!

[Valentine Kozin 🇺🇦 @NineOfNein]

@algoritmic Beautiful implementation!

[Valentine Kozin 🇺🇦 @NineOfNein]

@Kwokwokwokwok There was a stand-up joke about it being bad because the person behind you can also recline to make space, but you're passing the buck down to the back, and the person at the end has no room. Makes me mad to this day, as I've never seen a plane where the back seat can't recline!

[Valentine Kozin 🇺🇦 @NineOfNein]

I hope they can themselves Anna and Purna.

[Rock Paper Shotgun @rockpapershot]

Annapurna Interactive has "splintered into two groups, both of which are now working to pick up the pieces" says new report
https://t.co/Ef3oDzDvKn