Sculptris Ecorche 01

Yesterday I started doing an ecorche in sculptris. Not enough people give Z-brush's new younger brother enough credit, so I thought I’d see if I could do a serious anatomical study in it. It occurred to me this afternoon that it might be worthwhile to document it here. So, without further ado, Sculpting an ecorche in Sculptris...

On Realism in Videogames

This is ruining everything... apparently.

Christoph Hartmann of 2k Games recently said this of videogames, “Recreating a Mission Impossible experience in gaming is easy; recreating emotions in Brokeback Mountain is going to be tough, or at least very sensitive in this country. It's limiting … Every time the technology advances, new things will open up and be created. To dramatically change the industry to where we can insert a whole range of emotions, I feel it will only happen when we reach the point that games are photorealistic”. (full interview available here)

This pissed a whole bunch of people off, but is he wrong? Hit the jump for more on that.