Grall, I tried to make myself clear before but apparently that wasn't enough. Maybe this helps:
1) I'm a 3D Artist myself and like taking apart scenes, wether real-time or offline 3D, it keeps the eyes trained and you can learn along the way too.
2) When I said I was not too impressed by a couple of these shots, I was (like I repeatedly stated) talking about the
* T E C H N I C A L * aspect, not the overall look which I (also repeatedly) stated was excellent! If you can't or don't want to talk about the technical aspect, then please just don't comment, as I CLEARLY said that's what I'm talking about and nothing else, picking apart small details is part of such an analysis! With that out of the way...
Grall said:
Face closeup is not that special, I agree. Mainly good design, but what do you expect of such a shot really? It's meant to show what the hero looks like! You complain about the collar, what if it's supposed to be wool rather than fur?
I don't expect anything, but I don't see anything so breathtaking that justifies all the "wow, can our little Cube pull this off" either. The quality of these shots is IMHO first in the Artwork and only after that comes the technical brilliance (which is obvious, but also not miles beyond what has already been done to this day), and as such has little to do with the Platform its on. The static nature of RE's camera system also enables you to do "more" in real-time as you're not limited by having to consider a freely movable camera in each scene as other games have to...
Riight. It's an arm in a thick jacket. It's not spandex you know! Hand looks fine.
Warning: nitpicking
Look again, the Hand is sticking right through the fur/wool of the sleeve in like a 90° angle which loks rather odd. That's what I meant, sorry if i didn't make myself clear. Granted, I'm expecting too much, but this is the main character after all and in a high profile game to boot. I guess the closer you get to perfection, the more people will complain about those things that are still off, not long ago we were happy if a hand actually had each finger seperately modeled for real-time 3D...
Like I said, depth-of-field effect is real nice. If realtime. Look at the light flaring around the diagonal girders. Go back to the second page, look at the rain pic. Doesn't that look nice so say. Only rain I've seen looking equally good was in metal gear:solid, and you tell me that rain doesn't look good and I say LOL to that.
Agree about the DoF, it looks good and if its real-time and dynamic its even better, we'll have to wait and see just how good it will be in motion I guess. Splinter Cell has a rather nice dyamic DoF for alternate vision modes, as do many racing games, always wondered why so few other games used DoF, modern hardware is obviously capable of achieving a nice looking DoF-kinda-blur. As for the rain, looks flashy, never said against it did I?
You seem overly nitpicky IMO. You go out of your way looking for things to criticize. Of course you're going to find them with that attitude, especially since those few pics hardly show anything of the game.
Maybe you're taking this too personal? See what I wrote above, bit hypocritical to accuse me of nitpicking when I clearly stated that I was taking the shots apart from a technical perspective and above all repeatedly said that the overall look of the game is excellent so far, I don't say stuff like that all the time you know. What do you expect of me, maybe I'm just not as easily impressed, I don't know...
