why is early cgi so scary
>that bird looks like a banana from the thumbnail
>probably called a bananabird
>Bananabird.png
I don't know what I was expecting
>>321640296
uncanny valley
Let me guess, Donkey Kong Country?Rare makes the most unsettling cartoon characters. K. Rool was this to a extent too, what with his red shut bulging eye.
>>321640296
I really really like this picture
Dunno whatcha talking about senpai
can this b a meme?
>>321640990
this picture looks so weird
>>321641138
it already reminds of Dick Butt
>>321641065
Wait, his mouth was shut?
>>321641065
is he poking out from under a couch?
>>321641065
>tfw this used to mortify my autistic friend
>realize this and invite him over one day
>"Oh yea lets play some twisted metal 2"
>flip to AV and have it paused on this
>he falls to his knees and pisses himself, then slams my door and runs home
I'm a fuck I know, but I haven't laughed as hard as I did that day.
>>321640825
>he doesn't know about the bananabirds
Why can't I post images right now? I was going to post this '90s-as-fuck CGI render of a dark, metallic hallway with an ancient Egyptian motif, but I can't, so fuck it.
>>321640825
do you even collectables?
>>321642185
Jesus. How much more did you fuck with this guy?
>>321642260
Not enough meme points saved up
>>321642185
How did you pause in a cutscene?
If you started earlier in the hallway he should have noticed it was Resident Evil and not Twisted Metal 2
>>321640296
The lighting mostly. Older CGI used sparse point lights which is very unnatural. Modern CGI uses global illumination and many bounces to simulate real light more accurately
>>321642352
A few times, but none as bad as that. I got one more from the playstation era.
>At his house he's playing w/e that jurassic park game was on PS1, but its the one where you can play as different dinos
>notice his Megaman X4 is left out
>thats his favorite crown jewel game
>hide that shit in a different game case
>literally flips his shit later when he cant find it and starts tearing out hisown hair until he opens his crash bandicoot case and finds it
>laughing uncontrolllably
>>321642443
With a specific version of the directors cut (CD with the graphic of the eye) you can pause during cutscenes for some reason. Even if not I coulda opened the playstations lid and it woulda froze it there. PS1 had all sorts of weird things about its hardware.
>>321641980
Yes, he is coming for you.
>>321642407
Stop fucking talking about memes out of nowhere. This is a thread about early fucking CGI, not even a shitpost thread. It's people like you who are most likely Reddit users who found about 4chan from an "epic" screenshot of some ass getting quints.
>>321640296
>banana
not all of it is scary though.
Fallout 1 and 2 talking heads were creepy.
>>321643121
More like talking reds.
>>321642903
I really reallyhatethat picture
>>321643121
Dickhead.
>>321642903
>>321640825
You fool
>>321643381
creepiest boss in the whole series
>>321643547
even creepier than this one?
>>321644079
It's...filled with fire.
>>321640296
Only Rare's CGI, because they always made their models with strange lighting and ugly textures, as well as the models themselves being particularly shitty and often having jarring facial expressions, resulting in a stilted, unnatural appearance that makes the character in question look like the decomposing remains of a burnt Showbiz animatronic from the '80s.
I guess when we were much younger, that sort of uncanny valleyness doesn't affect you as much. I remember getting DKC3 for my birthday(we couldn't afford an N64), and I remember reading the manual on the ride home and thinking it was the dopest shit ever with all the CG characters they used in it.
But now, yeah, they look a little weird.
>>321644676
This was the best they could do back then.
>>321642904
pretty, thanks for posting anon
>>321645830
np anon, myst is my favorite thing in terms of oldschool renders. they're working on a new game as well, it's called obduction. fantastic series, all of /v/ should check it out at least once.
>>321646083
i remember back in school one of our lessons was to analyse in descriptive writing the different areas of Myst, no-one in my class played vidya and i remember them all trying to play it and having no idea what they were doing! that was funny.
>>321643364
Ironically the Enclave one is probably the least creepy one
>>321646445
Heck I played vidya and had no idea how to solve some of the things in Myst. Wish I still had my handwritten notes. Your school was cool though, wish I could've done that.
I love early renders
>>321647382
yes
>>321647382
w-w-why you made me to remember it once more...
>>321647483
What was stopping people from making modern level quality renders?
It's not the textures or lighting, the models themselves just look low quality. This looks like a fan render.
>>321647483
Mexico!
>>321647721
a lot of that is Nintendo's style
but also textures are heavy even in static renders and would make them even longer
they don't have all the time in the world, this is done in a limited time on contract for the marketing campaign
plus some techniques probably just weren't around, or weren't implemented in software yet like SSS
>>321642904
>myst
>is clearly exile
>>321647734
>dank dungeon-style level
>Mario is reflecting a sky with a visible horizon
wut
>>321647721
dunno
>>321640296
Speaking of early CGI being weird as fuck, has anyone ever wondered what it would be like to have an entire game that can run early CGI graphics in real time?
Like a game that looks exactly like the CGI looked, but not a pre-rendered cutscene.
I think it would be cool as hell. Also very, very uncanny.
>>321641543
Does he have pink eye?
>>321648068
I thouught that the FLUDD-less levels in SMS felt like that.
>>321647734
this is actually pretty cool
It's the weird lighting and either really bad or completely non-existent textures.
The reason why the SMG games looked so good despite being Wii games was because of the really nice light effects.
>>321647721
nobody'sgot style
>>321644676
Rare was the true mastermind behind FNAF
>>321648295
Seems legit.
>>321648295
dem old school bullshots
>>321642721
MUH MEMES
>>321648273
not gonna lie, I actually liked the style those characters were rendered.
>In the 90s, 3D modelling wasn’t as evolved as it is today. Each and every object was created individually, down to every brick in a wall. Which is exactly what we did. The straws in the thatch roofs on the Feudal market are all modeled individually. Which you can also see in this detail of the Imperial market.
>>321648473
Wow so if they saved these, they might actually still look good with proper lighting today in a 3D environment.
>>321648473
Jesus fucking Christ this is madness
>>321640965
Why do people just throw this term at everything? In cases of uncanny valley, you can't quite tell that it's not real at first. I hope you weren't confused as to whether the bananabird was real.
Things like OP aren't creepy because of uncanny valley. They're creepy for the same reason dolls are creepy.
>>321648550
that's still too much polygons for real time
>>321644982
>those exaggerated alveolar margins
>>321648407
Say what you like about Scott and his games, but he takes the strange, stop-motion 90s CGI aesthetic and runs with it.
>>321647721
The lighting and textures actually are a big part of why they look so bad.
>>321648760
>those running animations
pls kil me
>>321647954
>Myst III: Exile
You fucking moron
>>321648760
>0:33
that fucking shoulder, my god
>>321647721
A. It takes exponentially more time to render, and render farms weren't always supported by your software and not everybody had access to extremely large ones.
B. Techniques and the software features/UI that fostered those techniques didn't just start out at today's level. It's a new medium. It's a little like asking why you can't do Photoshop-level stuff in Paint just because they are both capable of outputting any combination of pixels you want. You could do those things in Paint technically, with infinite time, but it's not reasonable.
Somenoe please post that game that emulated early 3d renders . it was a about a red wizard dude going thru the desert and ended up in a drugstore. Then to the sewers. then a area-51 type of base. then another dimension.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoAcPeX7k_Y
>>321648923
I just love this one
This intro makes me shit myself laughing, especially this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRA9WizH6c0
>>321647679
loved that game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpQOso5DJCU
Uncanny valley at parts but this one was of the first CGi intros that really impressed me as a kid
>>321640296
I wonder if Rare/any of these other companies still have the original model files somewhere
This desu senpai
>>321652752
I recall a Rare employee saying it was common practice to throw out assets whenever they were done with them so they could re-use disks or some shit. Only a few people like Gregg Mayles keep this kind of thing, but he could probably only keep so much of it.
>tfw we'll never get a DKC re-release with unpixelated renders the way the developers originally envisioned it
Feels bad family.
>>321640990
Pretty much. It's not just the uncanny valley effect of early CG. Rare had pretty awful character designs in general. A few of them are good, but most of what they did from DKC2 onwards is terrifying.
I recall in middle school art class the teacher would play these early 90s abstract CGI video tapes with New Age soundtracks while we arted.
I would be down if I could find those online. Those were trippy as all hell.
>>321655453
mind's eye?
>>321655630
I never knew the name but yes thanks. This is the kind of stuff.
>>321648649
>uncanny valley, you can't quite tell that it's not real at first
that's not what uncanny valley means. it just means that the resemblance to a real thing is unsettling, because it clearly isn't. OP is an accurate example of uncanny valley, like pic related.
>>321656135
I didn't get it, me dumb.
>>321656963
>>321656135
>un·can·ny val·ley
>noun
>used in reference to the phenomenon whereby a computer-generated figure or humanoid robot bearing a near-identical resemblance to a human being arouses a sense of unease or revulsion in the person viewing it.
>>321657265
>>321643364
Am I the only one that sees a bug head?
>>321647734
And look what happened.
>>321658505
More like foil wrap mario lol
>>321656135
thats not uncanny valley. thats just bad art design. its just shitty american art with a terrible anime inspired flavor to it.
>>321641543
It's even better textured than Fallout 4.
>>321658505
More like plastic wrap mario lol
>>321658505
This pic may be rendered on some PC, when that 90s' render is made on some powerful mainframe. Modern consoles and PCs aren't still capable to render 90s pics fast.
>>321658505
mario just doesn't look right when you can see his mouth. i hate it.
>>321640825
>Bananabird.png
>.png
But it's a .jpg you Goddamned double baiter.
>>321657265
everything scott cawthon does is uncanny valley
>>321658153
I thought it's supposed to resemble exactly that.
>>321659215
>american
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rzCNCXZsuc
What is your favorite, /v/?
>>321656963
>>321657265
>>321657594
Putting aside differences about whether you like the games or not, I have to say, I fucking love the way all of Scott's games look.
All ofFNAF 3feels like a playable PSX FMV. It's so fucking good.
>>321647734
Games still don't do this shit.
>>321644982
RIP
>>321661040
>Ganryu
>King
>Bruce
>>321661040
the tiger guy
>>321648671
>>321648550
This, much of the details today are done by parallax/normal/bump mapping and tessellation, every wall in that should be a single plane
>>321653552
What the fuck is even going on with DK's stomach
>>321659539
The mid 90s were 20 years ago. Something like >>321647734 could trivially be done in real time on today's desktops and consoles. And despite how it looks >>321658505 is the more difficult to render image.
>>321640990
FUCK YOU RATTLY IS BASED
>>321662607
you're probably confused by his tie
>>321648760
>>321648839
This is actually badass. If you find this creepy you're probably some little 18 year old shit that thinks that just because they're 'old enough' to post here they're mature enough.
>>321640296
>>321640990
>>321644676
You mean to tell me THIS isnt impressive?
>>321647721
Because it would take a lot longer, and time is a limited and valuable resource.
>>321644982
>read first page
>(Diddy's) Kong Ques(t is) the best gam(e in) the world.
fucking rare
>>321663885
I guess you could say it was aRARE EXPERIENCE
