Des nouvelles de Ghost of a Tale 2 <3

Happy New Year everyone! 🙂 Oooh would you look at that, there's a new update on our website about #GhostOfATale2! Oh my it's almost like... we're back! 😄https://ghostofatale.com/were-back/ #UnrealEngine

Could this be a fortified city at night under curfew because the Baron's ship is in harbour...?! Why, that's an oddly specific question. Who knows?! #GhostOfATale2 #UnrealEngine5

Getting closer... #GhostOfATale2 #GoaT2 #HappyHolidays

The award-winning #GhostOfATale is available NOW for PC, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PlayStation 4 in digital and physical editions. It's a dangerous world out there, for a little Mouse...

I had been totally unaware of the atrocious job @Disney did with the anniversary release of The Sword in the Stone on Blu-ray. No doubt the artists who worked on the movie would have been horrified.

And here's a cleaned up hi-res scan of "Pillars of Pentegarn" (1982), also by Larry Elmore... #dungeonsanddragons

And here's a high-res scan of Return to Brookmere (1985), by Larry Elmore. Also part of the Endless Quests series by TSR. #dungeonsanddragons

Here is a hi-res scan of Larry Elmore's illustration for TSR's Dungeon of Dread (1982). 😀 #dungeonsanddragons

Just found parts of my #FlushedAway animation reel on YouTube! It was the last movie I did as a supervising animator at DreamWorks. Hadn't seen those animations in years... 😅

Ahem... Anyone knows how to pan with the middle mouse button in the sequencer in UE5? It seems to be hard-locked by default to the right mouse button. Which is awkward to say the least...

For your viewing pleasure here's a cleaned-up hi-res image of the Japanese poster for #TheGoonies by artist Noriyoshi Ohrai... 😀

In these ever troubled days we are reminded of the famous quote by Nietzsche: "Beware if you gaze for long into an abyss, for the abyss might invade your own country in return." What a visionary this Nietzsche...

Over the weekend I worked on restoring a high-definition scan of the famous Angus McBride illustration for the 1986 tabletop Middle-earth Role-Playing game. Here it is for your enjoyment, ready to be printed... 😁 @SeanMac67914982 @cimerians #MERPG #LordOfTheRings

Remember that recent clueless Apple ad that literally and symbolically destroyed the tools of human creativity? Turns out it didn't quite work as Apple planned...

Just done watching the second season of #TheBear. It's excellent. The level of writing and acting is up there with #TheAmericans. I have zero interest in cooking and yet I'm riveted to these characters' lives. That's how good it is.

Happy New Year from Port Scarn! Wait, could this be a fortified city at night under a curfew because the Baron's ship is in harbour...?! Why that's an oddly specific question. Who knows!! #GhostOfATale2 #UnrealEngine5

The Announcement of the Apple Vision Pro's Price (1894) by Walter Langley (English artist, lived 1852–1922). #AppleVisionPro

Coming from #Unity3d one thing we were missing in #UE5 is a good output log, with custom colors and categories, along with the ability to simply double-click a log line to open the relevant blueprint. The default Output Log window is barely readable and non-interactive:

I was leafing through my original Japanese edition #Akira volume 1 when I noticed something I wasn't aware of: Katsuhiro Otomo actually redrew some panels prior to the American edition when he felt the drawing wasn't up to his standard (like here with the Colonel)...

Because a good laugh is important during these troubled times...

Sobering thought of the day: The start of WW3 might be predicated on a moronic pilot practicing the botched equivalent of teabagging on a drone.

"We used a 3D model that SOMEONE had made"...?! Sorry, that's not how you present things. The correct way is "We didn't create or design the backgrounds, Mike Kurabi did". The authorship of things is getting muddy as hell with AI...

The opening credits of #CarnivalRow are drop-dead gorgeous. The visuals, the mood, the music, the subtext. Classy as hell. The series itself isn't too bad either.

If you currently live on this planet you might be aware Russia launched a full-on military invasion of Ukraine over a year ago. So enjoy this short video of the Russian foreign minister getting laughed at by a crowd in India when pretending otherwise.

Do you know what might just kill demigod bosses in #EldenRing? Couple of war hawks and a rune bear. Add in a handful of rats and the sucker's toast. #GameplayBalance

PSA: If you're into old-school RPGs you could do worse than diving into @spiderwebsoft's games. As a reminder, here's Jeff's GDC lecture from 2018, about surviving as a Very Small game developer:

One of the scariest thing for a #UnrealEngine5 developer coming from Unity is googling an error message. With Unity you get hundreds of hits, forum links, etc. With UE5 you're lucky if you get ten hits, most of which are irrelevant. Now THAT can be daunting... 😅

Playing a lot of #ELDENRING at the moment, so this feels true:

I mean using #UnrealEngine5 clearly allows us to up our graphics... #GhostOfATale

And now a short story with a woeful start but a happy end, as seen today on Reddit...! 😊 (The first post is a reaction to the recent mention of an upcoming #GhostOfATale2)

In this new year I can't help but thinking of our brothers and sisters, artists and game developers, forced to pick up weapons to defend their country from a horrifying invasion. Much love and respect to you. May you soon get back to creating beauty and joy! 🕯️

"Have you seen this Mouse...?" #GhostOfATale2 #UnrealEngine5

I had fun asking ChatGPT to argue the point that AI-generated art is NOT real art:

My Twitter woes seem to be fixed: I cleared the Twitter cookies, ditched AB+ and installed uBlock. So far so good...

Alright now roughly every other tweet on my timeline is a freaking ad ("promoted" tweets). Signing out for today. This better be a huge mishap on Twitter's behalf or else I'm out for good.

Seeing more ads on Twitter today. So-called "Promoted" tweets. It's gross and reeks of desperation. 😑

Unreal Engine PSA: The new 5.1 release has broken the "Set Position in Viewport" node, which is used to position UI widgets on the screen. Kinda important stuff, you know. The kind that should be caught by QA before release.

Unreal Engine PSA: Manipulating actor variables via an Editor Widget BP will not mark the actor's level as dirty. To set the level as dirty (so you can save the changes with Ctrl+S), simply use a Transact Object node on the actor. #ue5tips

Feeling a shift in room temperature lately? My #Mastodon handle is: @[email protected]

Here's a transcript of the recent internal meeting between Musk and Twitter's employees. The overall feeling of brashness, chaos and disarray is worrying. There's not even a pretense of having a grip on things. Anything goes.

All this hoopla around Twitter and Musk reminds me of this scene from Orson Welles' Citizen Kane, after the titular character bought a famous newspaper and smugly declares: "I don't know how to run a newspaper, I just try everything I can think of."

Looks like a Terry Gilliam animation. "Hey you in the back, with the halo! Yes, you!"

The first reviews of the new @wacom Cintiq Pro 27 are out and they all mention the issue of very noticeable (aka "loud") fan noise. Previous generation also had this problem, which is why I never upgraded. I really thought they'd addressed this by now.

By all accounts any Russian military willing to kill Ukrainian civilians is already on the battlefield. Which means Vladimir Putin just declared mobilization of reservists probably quite reluctant to die for his own hubris. I'm sure it will work out alright.

After watching the 4th episode of #TheRingsofPowers I'm like "yeah this is just not very compelling". I might still check out the next episodes purely for the excellent visuals, but if it didn't have those it would be a barely average series.

My two cents on #TheRingsOfPower so far: - Visuals: Excellent - Acting: Average (ranging from weak to good) - Dialogs: Weak - Plotting: Average - Directing: Good (despite some weak action scenes) The series has a lot of potential and looks gorgeous but it needs better writing.

Here's the take of a professional portrait photographer on AI (and how he uses it).

Here are some learned mice and some fighting frogs by Kawanabe Kyōsai (1831 – 1889). 🙂