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90s Soulful CGi Thread

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>> No.6925432

Same shit, different thread.

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That's all for today

>> No.6925664

>>6925424
god they feel good. never even seen this one before

>> No.6925673

>>6925465
>>6925434
>>6925404
>>6925385
>>6925391

Suprised some indie dev hasn't tried recreating this style of CGI in realtime for that nastolgia bait.

>> No.6925696

>>6925673
Most indie devs would probably be equally surprised to learn there are people actually nostalgic for this shit. It looked like horseshit back then and it certainly doesn't look better now.
It also takes more effort than pixelshit. You could get reasonably modern looking 3D with the same amount of effort so it doesn't really work as a practical time/cost saving measure like pixelshit does.

>> No.6925741

crazy that games just look like this now, but even better

>> No.6925880

>>6925398
What do the circles mean?

>> No.6925885

>>6925385
>soul
fuck off /v/eddit

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>> No.6927080

>>6925673
How would you even do that? Last I heard the cgi mod for Mario was difficult

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>>6925885
There's always one

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>>6926694
Damn Taki kinda looks like Marina Nagasawa here.

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>>6925385
>soul
As if zoomers knew what that means...

t. 3D fossil

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>>6925491

>> No.6927293

>>6925673
>realtime
It would look janky as hell. CGI cutscenes with the kind of realtime graphics you'd expect, absolutely.

>> No.6927332

Where are these pics from?

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>>6925385
>>6925391
>>6925396
>>6925398
>>6925404
>>6925412
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>>6925478
>>6925482
>>6925485
>>6925491
>>6925494
>>6925497
>>6925505
>>6925510
>>6927174
>>6926694
>>6927102

>tfw I want to be in the 90s but born in 2003...

>> No.6927932

>>6927917
kek

>> No.6928283

>>6925673
Indie devs are currently fascinated with replicating Playstation graphics, maybe in a few years they’ll try Mario.

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>>6925385
it isn't fair limited this thread to 90s only, lots of game from early 00s has soulful CGI too

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>>6925385
>CGi Thread

You mean SGi? The majority of the renders in this thread were probably produced using an SGi workstation of some kind.

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>> No.6928780

>>6928752
Then make your own fucking thread you insufferable faggot.

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RE3 pre-rendered BG

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>>6928797

>> No.6928809

>>6928760
It's a computer that generates images all the same.

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>>6928797

...

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>>6928809
>It's a computer that generates images all the same.

I don;t know, the SGi workstations do have some unique hardware in them that produce a pretty distinctive look universally.

.

>> No.6928882

>>6928780
Gee chillout boomer

>> No.6928906

>>6928846
I'm not gonna sit here trying to convince you that an SGi station is a fucking computer, so you can go on thinking it somehow isn't one if you like.

>> No.6929034

>>6928773
Hell

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>>6925398
>>6925404
>>6925412
>>6925424
>Dixie wears knee pads

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>>6925673
Wow you're living under a rock anon.

>> No.6929228

>>6927104
>namefag
>pretentious post
>reddit spacing
>gay
It adds up

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Still counts as 90s

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>>6929739

>> No.6929806

>>6929228
Stay mad kiddo. Suits you.

>> No.6929816

>>6928846
That was largely software-dependent. Render the same project in SI|3D on a O2 or a NT workstation and you get identical results, granted you pick the same renderer. The one in your picture is the standard scanline render, not fancy stuff like Renderman or Mental Ray.

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>> No.6929884

>>6929226
That doesn’t look anything remotely like prerendered CGI

>> No.6929886

>>6925673
Unreal engine autism is there but doens't count.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MamMevAW3kA

>> No.6929896

>>6927332
an autistic virgin's hard drive

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>>6925673
Heart Chain Kitty

>> No.6930036

>>6925673
Amid Evil looks just like that

>> No.6930046

>>6925673
Because that would require a significant amount of skill (high poly models with weird, non modern lighting) unlike pixels pixelshit and low poly ps1 styled graphics.

>> No.6930457

>>6928778
what kind of retarded attempt at upscaling is this again

>> No.6930489

>>6930457
it's not an upscale

>> No.6930521

>>6928773
Damn, are there anymore Banjo-Kazooie stage renders like this?

>> No.6930526

>>6930521
I thought that looked familiar! It is indeed pretty neat. I hope Anon has more.

>> No.6930657

>>6925396
>>6925398
>>6925404
>>6925412
>>6925424
>>6925434
>>6928778
Dogey's Kong is the epitome of soul.

>> No.6931012

>>6928283
Are they? Can you give me a couple examples? PS1 graphics are my favorite.

>> No.6931345

>>6928846

has a more badass image ever existed? based fucking turok

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back when racers had soul

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>>6925673

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re-renderings of scenes included with POV-Ray

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>>6931467

>> No.6931479

>>6929816
What does Renderman do that other renderers don't?

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>>6925385
>Soulful

>> No.6931520

There's something striking about 90's 3D graphics. It's sort of like uncanny valley, but more positive.

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>>6931520
They're on the left side of the uncanny valley.

>> No.6931957

>>6925673
8 gigs of gpu megaflops can't recreate SOUL.
These product shots will always look like shit in motion.

>> No.6931984

>>6931479
Fully programmable, in complexity far beyond what your could do with mental ray at the time. Pretty much limited to vfx studios and institutions with money and manpower, since Renderman was not easy to set up. Today's incarnation of Renderman is far easier to operate.

>> No.6932006

>>6931984
I remember hearing it was a big deal (something about it being Ed Catmull's game-changing software purpose built for Toy Story or something) but do you have any examples of it doing its stuff?

>> No.6932020

>>6930025
It looks like they just slapped an exaggerated bump map on it and called it a day.

>>6931437
>>6930036
Damn.

>> No.6932059

>>6932006
I have the Renderman I/O plugin for Softimage on one of my workstations, but not Renderman itself. It converts scene data into the needed format which is then normal send and cued on a series of machines running Renderman.
As for movies using "classic" Renderman; you just have to take a look at Hollywood:
https://renderman.pixar.com/movies

>> No.6932089

>>6932059
Cool, but are there any examples of an effect/style/look that completely owes its existence to Renderman's innovations?

>> No.6932140

>>6932089
All these movies show vastly different styles in their VFX, at least the 90s entries on the list.
The beauty of Renderman was/is that its shaders are freely programmable, so it has no "signature" look or effects that are immediately identifiable...in contrast to some other commercial renderers of the 90s(one can easily identify a 3D Studio rendering from that time or something done in Lightwave or stuff done with the built-in scanline renderer of Softimage).
It also handles absurd amount of geometry, even in its earliest incarnations and it supported micropolygons as early as 1985. It was expandable in arbitrary ways, so many studios tacked on their own extensions to the renderer. Proprietary radiosity solutions for example have been tacked on as early as 1988.

>> No.6932160

>>6925673

Just play Planescape: Torment. Also that prerendered 64 mod looks bad

>> No.6932189

>>6925673
>Suprised some indie dev hasn't tried recreating this style of CGI
five nights at freddy's?

>> No.6932210

>>6932189
True. Forgot about that.

>> No.6932217

>>6932189
>five nights at freddys
that just looks like babbies first day with blender

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>>6931012
https://caspercroes.itch.io/alisa-demo

>> No.6932242

>>6925443
Glacius looks like the bastard child of Spawn and a Protoss on that pic.

>> No.6932263

>>6932242
Came long before any protoss

>> No.6932285

>>6932263
I know. Still looks like it even down to the hand (although 'tosses have 4 fingers, including 2 opposable thumbs on each side)

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Fuck this is driving me crazy, does anyone have that CG model of Link that was printed on the side of the N64 packaging? I can’t find it anywhere

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I always loved this type of shit

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>>6931012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTgJHU3MB24

The fact that this has over 3 and a half million views seems to prove there is some interest.

>> No.6932609

>>6931463
What's this from? I recognize it. Is it album art?

>> No.6932616

>>6931012
https://youtu.be/Y3i-bcbh4Q0

>> No.6932695

>>6932217
COPE

>> No.6932785

>>6925482
we need more sexy girls if video games again. Fuck what the libtards say. They just want to burn things down anyway.

>> No.6932859

>>6932263
>>>6932242
>Came long before any protoss

yeah Blizzard stole all of their ideas. Warcraft is just a rip off of Warhammer fantasy. Starcraft is a rip off of Warhammer 40k.

>> No.6933076

>>6932217
>says this in a thread about 90s CGI
anon i...

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>>6932306

>> No.6933458

>>6931012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5edvPHppuI
videopix player. This anon releases an episode every month or so- TOP SOUL

>> No.6933676

>>6932695
you have to be 18 or older to post here

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>>6933458
yet this midwit can't even get that right. I see volumetric light or some form of scattering which did not exist in real time imagery at the time. dropped.

>> No.6933910

>>6929884
Oh I thought you just meant the model style, not the actual renderer style.

>> No.6933938

>>6932695

You really have ZERO idea what that word means, do you

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>> No.6933947

>>6933458
What the fuck is this hipster shit.

>> No.6933959

>>6925673
If someone is skilled enough to make stuff like this, they're skilled enough to go just a bit further and make modern quality assets. People like that aren't usually indie since they can get a stable job instead
And if you wanted it to be more authentic it'd be harder since you'd need to hook up raytracing and be handy with material design

>> No.6934025

>>6933458
What a waste of time

>> No.6934039

>>6933684
Yeah it's actually pretty jarring to see.

>> No.6934040

>>6933959
Ray tracing is making a comeback though so there are tons of prepackaged libs and assets for its now.

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>>6925465
i used to have a poster with this one, the other side was this (can't find better quality at the moment)

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>>6934040
>Ray tracing is making a comeback
People like you give me strokes. It never went away. It was always a part of offline rendering in the last 30+ years. It's just now that it takes its first baby steps into real time imaging on consumer-grade hardware.
Jesus...

>> No.6934069

>>6934040

>Ray tracing is making a comeback

You mean in real time? For that it is not "coming back" since it was never there in the first place, it is only coming in now because hardware finally is fast enough to allow real time ray tracing.
For rendering still pictures it was never gone.

>> No.6934071

>>6934058
That's what I mean, it's making a come back for real time rendering. You seem pretty dense.

>> No.6934089

>>6934071
You too, midwit.

>> No.6934132

>>6934040
It's still another item on top of everything else that you need to learn and set up
The reason for my reply was that people keep complaining that indies aren't filling niches that take a lot of effort and are only appreciated by a subset of people. Processing power and modern tools may be leagues ahead, but it doesn't trivialize the task especially when you're adding a real-time requirement

>> No.6934137

>>6934069
Look up realtime voxel raytracers from 2003 retard.

>> No.6934156

>>6934137
ray marching ≠ ray tracing

>> No.6934159

>>6934156
I know that retard.

>> No.6934162

>>6934159
No, you obviously don't.

>> No.6934421

>>6925673
Five nights at freddy's does this

>> No.6934439

>>6934071
That's not what a comeback is.

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>>6931459
>those shiny textures
love it

>> No.6935392

>>6931459
POV-Ray always sucked in every incarnation when it came to shaders

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>> No.6935932

>>6931459
More like POOF-Ray