"dad, our age of bronze is collapsing"
"what? collapsing?"
"yeah, and soon the sea people will come to usher in an era of darkness because we spat in the face of the gods"
"whaddafuck? who told you thish?"
"homer, he said we broke zeus' laws"
"simpson?"
Sometimes I look out over a body of water and think about pixel shaders — superimposed waveforms, fresnel effects, intra-pixel maximum finding and analytical anti-aliasing. In the age of gen-AI rendering, this is like the old mechanics working on WW2 era piston planes. A craft of a prior era.
I was in the theater with friends and was telling them: "We've got that slow motion effect in Max Payne!" And we'd already trademarked "bullet time" for the game.
After we release the game in 2001, Warner Bros. threatened to sue us for using "bullet time", but we were easily able to prove to them that we had the trademark first. So they backed all the way down :)
Christopher Nolan says he told his son that he removed his Oscars from his office while writing ‘THE ODYSSEY’ as they felt daunting to look at.
His son replied - “But you didn’t win any for writing.”
(Source: @BBCWorld)
"Yeah we know he created the visual design for much of the new Doom trilogy since 2016 but eh we think ChatGPT can do better."
Sorry, I'm salty today. This industry is so frustrating.