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Logan Preshaw

@wickedinsignia.bsky.social

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Artist and Art Director in games Worked on Valorant, LoL, WoW, Ark 2, AR/VR projects and Avatar 2 Guest of Honour for Aurawra ‘23 and FWA ‘24 He/Him 31 🇦🇺🏳️‍🌈 No NFTs, stop genAI, free Palestine https://cara.app/wickedinsignia

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Logan Preshaw @wickedinsignia.bsky.social · 1h

I love this example because it's such a great ambassador of that argument AND it's easy to use. Most times ngon edgeflow is a bit too much of a mindscrew for me but this one's quite straightforward.

Also gosh this guide is awesome:
www.artstation.com/artwork/0n93EV

How to use Ngons, Katja Linssen | rHebKa

PDF version and project files available on Itch & gumroad: https://rhebko.itch.io/ngons https://www.gumroad.com/l/Ngons - Now readable in russian! thanks Arthur Zhuk! https://www.dropbox.com/s/hta...

www.artstation.com

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Logan Preshaw @wickedinsignia.bsky.social · 1h

@oddenough.art wondering what occasions you would/wouldn't recommend this for.
To my knowledge it wouldn't do well with strong deformation around it and the "3 edges define a curve" principle needs to be considered but you always have such good thoughts on this stuff.

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Logan Preshaw @wickedinsignia.bsky.social · 20h

One of my favourite ngon modeling solutions is a 5-sided face to hold tight inner corners.
Very predictable edgeflow (it simply subdivides to a 5-sided pole in the middle of the face) and saves some work on surfaces that allow for it.

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Logan Preshaw @wickedinsignia.bsky.social · 1d

Oh man this would bang if it was still the early 2010s and none of us had any self-respect

Logan Preshaw @wickedinsignia.bsky.social · 1d

Can't wait to go to PAX 2014 to shop at the Gamespot booth for a Super Mario pop vinyl then relax at home with some Big Bang Theory later. Why yes, I'm a geeky game developer!

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Logan Preshaw @wickedinsignia.bsky.social · 2d

Constructing a product from a collection of data others own isn't inherently wrong (search engines for example) but it's socially destructive when that product specifically disrupts the business of those it derives that data from.

GenAI isn't just unsettling in concept. It's fair use abuse.

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Logan Preshaw @wickedinsignia.bsky.social · 2d

Artists don't just own their work, they own the digital makeup of their work. That's all digital art is ultimately: a hyper-specific arrangement of data.
GenAI can't function without ingesting a massive collection of that data. Its resulting algorithm is derived solely from data we make and own.

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Logan Preshaw @wickedinsignia.bsky.social · 3d

Hot damn, these slap Ben!

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Logan Preshaw @wickedinsignia.bsky.social · 10d

TBH I think this is just where we're at now.
The genuinely "good" options suck and no one uses them. The usable options have power-tripping twats at the top.
I'm sick of being reactive, I just wanna use what sucks least and be real about the fact it could be so much worse.

Logan Preshaw @wickedinsignia.bsky.social · 13d

Sincerely: 31 year old industry artist with many colleagues over 30.

Logan Preshaw @wickedinsignia.bsky.social · 13d

Artists/writers/PC laborers:
- Get up for 5 mins every 30 mins
- Look at something 20 ft away for 20 secs every 20 mins
- Get 7-8 hrs sleep. PRIORITIZE this over all else
- Drink 2-3 liters water per day

Do these things because you don't want to experience what makes you regret not doing them.

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Logan Preshaw @wickedinsignia.bsky.social · 13d

Correlation between AI enthusiasts and knowing nothing about how it works remains undefeated

Logan Preshaw @wickedinsignia.bsky.social · 16d

Thanks for the spoiler I fucking guess

Logan Preshaw @wickedinsignia.bsky.social · 21d

Whenever I see the comparison being made in total sincerity there's not much else to do but conclude they're a layman at best.

Logan Preshaw @wickedinsignia.bsky.social · 21d

Oops sorry the comment I left here was under the wrong reply lol. FEAR does indeed have great lighting and is another great example of scope/style fitting the limitations at the time. The limited dynamic light use resulted in really stark and unsettling deep shadows.

Logan Preshaw @wickedinsignia.bsky.social · 21d

Lumen’s the only standout there. I wouldn’t consider anything in Godot to reflect the state of the industry.

Most games are either using Lumen or shipping their own homebrew solutions that are just varying concoctions of techniques. It’s not really standardised yet and flaws are par for the course.

Logan Preshaw @wickedinsignia.bsky.social · 21d

Thanks Logan!
(Gosh that feels weird, so few other Logans out there lol!)

Logan Preshaw @wickedinsignia.bsky.social · 21d

Holy heck Dan

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Logan Preshaw @wickedinsignia.bsky.social · 21d

Games of that nature had too big a technical cost to really be feasible before. You had to build around the fact that lighting wouldn't update or would be very rudimentary. Players simply wouldn't have those types of games at that scale without developments like dynamic GI making them possible.

Logan Preshaw @wickedinsignia.bsky.social · 21d

People love using Mirror’s Edge and similar titles as examples of baked lighting being just as good as dynamic while performing better. In reality those titles had a very specific scope that was well-suited to baked lighting. There are many genres and styles that convenience doesn’t apply to.

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Logan Preshaw @wickedinsignia.bsky.social · 21d

It’s not all about the end-consumer. You can get similar results with baked lighting in some scenarios but it takes so much more time. There are many modern game scenarios baked lighting just isn’t viable for. Dynamic GI largely benefits developers but leads to many games looking nicer too.

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Logan Preshaw @wickedinsignia.bsky.social · 21d

The difficulty with dynamic GI is performance. Engines and studios jumped on it recently because it became viable on current hardware and the pipeline timesaving is so worth it that they jumped a little too early.

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Logan Preshaw @wickedinsignia.bsky.social · 21d

Lightmapping and artist-driven probes take a ton of work. The former usually requires handmade UVs and simply doesn’t play well with certain types of mid-poly geometry or modern assets. It’s also much more time-consuming to iterate with.
The latter is better but still a timesink and unreliable.

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Logan Preshaw @wickedinsignia.bsky.social · 21d

This take from gamers and hobbyist devs seems to emerge every few months. It’s clear consumers broadly misunderstand why dynamic GI is a blessing to development pipelines regardless of scale.

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Logan Preshaw @wickedinsignia.bsky.social · Apr 26

Cliffs

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