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Tim Soret
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Founder @oddtalesgames Directing The Last Night @TLN_Game Art Direction, Cinematography, Tech Art. Atoms, Bits, Memes, Genes. Futurism, Humanism.
Feb 6 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
I built a proof of concept with The Last Night's rendering tech, which would be perfect to faithfully bring PSX classics to new audiences with their crisp original art, except in 16/9 4K HDR 60fps.
I'm very unhappy with PSX remasters lately.
Either lazy (MGS) or disrespectful (Tomb Raider).

- Changing the art assets is not preservation.
- Pure emulation is lazy

PSX aesthetics can look absolutely gorgeous in 4K HDR with special techniques to retain the charm of the era.
Sep 12, 2023 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Unity is attempting to make developers pay for each new game install by a customer.

This is the most impractical, most unhinged business decision I've ever seen.

John Riccitiello should resign. How to avoid counting pirated installs?
It works against Game Pass / PS+ / bundles?

Do we pay each time a player installs the game on a new device like Steam Deck?

It's impossible to track & count correctly, and shows a total misunderstanding of the modern video game landscape.
Mar 12, 2023 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
Disney 2D animators / directors Tom & Tony Bancroft discover AI animation for the first time, mind-blown.

Interesting to see again & again how the very best artists aren't afraid by new technology. They even compare it to a "Toy Story" moment. They know. "Whatever you did,
you just opened Pandora's box"

From this excellent series of Hollywood pros commenting their past work, revealing a lot of behind the scenes knowledge & tricks.

Jan 2, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
What if...
AI is not our tool.
We are its tools.

Us the programmers, the writers, the artists, the commentators, the consumers, we're all feeding & calibrating AI every single day by uploading our thoughts, our art, our daily lives.

We are parents, masters, teachers, sensors. For now, AI has no continuous experience.

Life 1.0. Static software, static hardware. It doesn't recalibrate & alters its own structure over time.

Its input data is scattered across time (anytime) & space (anywhere), rather than a real-time stream of experience (local, now).
Dec 17, 2022 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
The Anti-AI art crowd right now is mobilized, pretending that the real concern is copyright. It’s not.

The real concern is to avoid competition & replacement. AlphaZero learned to play against itself. AI will make art with or without human input.

So once the copyright argument falls, there isn’t much remaining to prevent it or even slow it down.
Dec 16, 2022 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
"Humans first knew the era of survival.
Then they knew the era of work.
Now they live in the era of leisure.

Machines have surpassed human labour not only in strength, but in precision, intellect, and creativity."

2017. "The fight for survival doesn’t mean food & water, but a purpose for living.

People now define themselves by what they consume, not what they create."
Nov 23, 2022 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
This is wrong.
Humans don't create ex nihilo.

Humans can't visualize ideas without references. We have already internalized them, having trained our biological neural networks in our lifetime.

Many hopelessly want to deprive AI from the same learning opportunities. Try to visualize a new color never seen before.

We can't.
Hard limit.
We're not that special or creative.
And that's ok.

Our limitations make me appreciate our achievements even more, just like evolution makes me admire biological life much more than any esoteric explanation.
Aug 16, 2022 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Humans vs Machines.
Homepages of ArtStation vs MidJourney.
Not sure which side I find more interesting these days. ImageImage I've scoured the internet for two decades now, obsessively searching for the best art I could find.

I've never seen as many fresh pictures with mesmerizing designs than in the last few months thanks to machine learning. I'm just glad to be alive to see this.
Jun 16, 2022 • 7 tweets • 6 min read
Playing with #midjourney's AI. Mesmerizing.
Variations around "Hong Kong by Beksiński". ImageImageImage ImageImageImage
Dec 18, 2021 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
Indie studios: stagger funding.

Raising too much early = trading long-term creative control, revenue & growth potential for immediate safety.

Raise the minimum needed to attain the next milestone. Raise again now that your studio / project is derisked & valuation is way higher. This requires a real tolerance to stress + grit + confidence + a team that trusts you. Many should probably favor a more relaxed approach. But if you can pull it off, it's worth it.
Sep 8, 2021 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
This, while California is closing its last nuclear power plant, zero-emission energy for 3M residents.

California's energy policy is completely dogmatic. By following the same path as Germany, it will end with the same disastrous outcomes.

reuters.com/business/energ… Another incarnation of wishful thinking, of blind utopian ecology causing worst outcomes than pragmatic environmentalism. Really tired of ideologues.
Jul 30, 2021 • 16 tweets • 5 min read
genDESIGN will share more about the creation of Trico at CEDEC, the most believable procedurally animated creature ever created running in real-time.

Released 5 years ago, still completely unmatched.
Mar 18, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Current NFTs tokens are a total joke, just JSON files with links to mp4 & png files, worthless in 10 years if server goes down. We can do so much better with the tech. A real crypto-art decentralized vision:
- art directly embedded in the blockchain
- token can never be lost: could automatically fall into public domain if owner didn't log in 5 years
- programmable smart contracts (ex: artist commission on each resale, or art evolving with time)
Mar 7, 2021 • 13 tweets • 6 min read
Unbelievable how malevolent & uncharitable this interpretation is.

Of course Pepé the Pew is disgusting, it's the whole point of this character & this cartoon! Let me explain for those who aren't familiar with it 👉 First, the Looney Tunes characters are obviously not designed as role models.

They behave in the most insane, stupid, obsessive & reprehensible manner.

Their flawed nature is why it's morally acceptable and so regressively funny to see them fail miserably over & over. Image
Feb 11, 2021 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Two powerful castes avoid self-critique & never admit any wrongdoing:

- politicians
- journalists

This is weakness, not strength. This attitude is a remnant of another era, and is incompatible with internet. Our societies would be healthier if they acted like the rest of us. I’d love to see politicians like this:

- In hindsight, we have to admit our policy didn’t have the outcome we intended...

- Our handling of coronavirus was subpar. We could have acted faster & stronger. We’re fixing this to ensure we’re better prepared for future pandemics.
Jul 17, 2020 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
GPT-3 is insane indeed.
It tends to confirm that biological intelligence doesn't have an unattainable quality. We'll get there, and...

This will bring a very strange golden age that will inflict an utterly mortal wound to mankind's ego. If you want to read more:
arr.am/2020/07/09/gpt…
Jul 2, 2020 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
13 tons.... The Uyghur situation is, let's call it, a fucking holocaust, and nobody gives a shit somehow.

After all, what's a few millions victims in a country of 1.4 billion humans? A soluble statistic for the CCP.
time.com/5862372/china-… We know about the horrendous trafficking of Uyghurs organs.
businessinsider.com/china-harvesti…
Jun 16, 2020 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
The lighting in #TheLastofUsPartII is so subtle, so mature, and so tough to pull off. It's a world with almost no artificial lights. Mostly indirect natural light from an overcast weather.
Jun 11, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
@arvalis Wow I'm glad I'm not alone noticing that. It's very hard to pinpoint indeed. Probably a difference in proportions, shape language & very different reference points (architecture, animals, vegetation...). @arvalis Miyazaki, unsatisfied, told his concept artist one day:
"Can't you instead try to convey the deep sorrow of a magnificent beast doomed to a slow and possibly endless descent into ruin?"
Jun 10, 2020 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Peggy McIntosh, Robin DiAngelo.

The intellectual frauds who laid the foundations for Critical Theory, birthing this new illiberal identitarian left, which is insanely more dangerous than how it is branded. If you’re a silent & terrified liberal, it is time to overcome your fear, connect & organize, sharpen your rethorical weapons, speak up & act, or this will be end of the values that made our social-liberal democracies the most progressive societies humans ever lived in.
Jun 7, 2020 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
Twitter is not welcoming for me anymore.
I think I'm out if it continues.

As Twitter's audience is radicalizing, those like me who share these ideals but aren't fully onboard with the orthodoxy are excommunicated. Moderates have no voice & no place online.
Most are silent & scared to death.

I receive hundreds of DMs showing appreciation that I dare to speak, debate, try to bring nuance, including many blue-checks or industry people that are too afraid to publicly do the same.