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How about a brand new image? I haven't been as productive shooting lately, most of my time in the woods now consists of volunteer work, foraging and collecting slime mold samples. But I couldn't say no this beautiful Autumnal scene just holding on before the throes of winter.
Some of my bookshelves
Ion Fury (2019) - Believable Environment
Achieving to create a believable environment is not an easy thing. Even worst, trying to do so can be really difficult and time consuming. But there is a psychology tool that we can use : conceptual models.
Conceptual models, or mental models, are how we represent things in our mind. We use these models to sum up things, so it is less complex and we can remember more.
If you tell me the word bathroom, I'll think about : toilet, shower, sink, towel, toilet paper et cetera, and this is enough. I do not need to know how the plumbery system is working, or of which materials my toilets are made.
Thus, to design a believable environment, we should aim at the conceptual model the player have of this environment. A game like Ion Fury does it extremely well.
On the screenshots on the top, we can clearly understand where we are : in a bar. Because of the many clues we can find in the world, we understand it without any effort. And we do not even need ultra high definition 3D or textures, as long as the shape / colors are recognizables.
Section model
How is it, then, that modern authors as educated as Seth Godin and Rick Hanson (among others) are writing entire essays that present “the lizard brain” as well-documented scientific fact? How does Godin keep a straight face onstage as he tells us that “the lizard is a physical part of your brain” and that “the reason we call wild animals ‘wild’ is because they have lizard brains”? It’s because the idea makes a weird kind of intuitive sense. We’re bundles of instincts and inhibitions and desires that don’t fit neatly together. It’d be comforting, in a way, if we could pin those conflicts on little lizard brains - just name those ancient demons and drive ‘em out, like we did in simpler times. Whether we like it or not, though, the lizard is simply us. Every habit and hangup, every dread and desire in our minds is dependent on neural pathways that were once laid down by our personal experiences. Like every other organism on earth, we carry the history of a long, successful lineage in our genetic and biological makeup. The question of what to do with those resources, though, isn’t predetermined by the past. It’s up to you.
Revenge of the Lizard Brain
My favourite type of shoot is the kind when im told to please stop smiling at the dog-walkers, that is so much worse
I may be stained slightly pink at the moment...
Another image from this years unseasonably hot summer, where I learned to embrace shooting in direct light.
Already feeling so blessed with the amount of love you guys have been showing the work I've already posted, it already feels so liberating having a platform where I can share my work without worry of some rigid guidelines. Here's one of my favourite images from last year on a cold and moody Autumn evening.
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