Cortex sous vide, spheres on a plane
Last month at the Norwegian demoparty Kindergarden, Gloom and Kusma of the group Excess released a short and stylish PC demo: cortex sous vide. Here is a video of it on Youtube, but if you have a...
View ArticleOpening sequence of Vakondok 2 / Moleman 2
The Hungarian producer and director Matusik Szilárd published the final version of the opening of the documentary about the demoscene he and his team made: Vakondok 2, aka. Moleman 2. The whole film,...
View ArticleEpsilon, a 64k intro by Mercury
Last weekend the demogroup Mercury released at Tokyo Demo Fest the final version of their invitation to the upcoming Revision party: a 64kB demo called Epsilon. While the complexity of the scenes is...
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Mesh generation in Farbrausch demos
Back in 2007, the German demogroup Farbrausch was releasing its masterpiece, fr-041 Debris. Aside from the artistic qualities of this demo, it is impressive by its size: just 177kB worth of binary, for...
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Back from Revision
This article is a crosspost from Ctrl-Alt-Test.fr. I don’t know if this is going to become some sort of tradition for us, but as a matter of fact, we attended all Easter parties since the creation of...
View ArticleChaos Constructions 2011 invitation, by Quite
Not exactly recent news: last Summer the Russian demoscene group Quite presented this 64kB intro as an invitation to the demoparty Chaos Constructions that took place in Saint Petersburg. I find very...
View ArticleSquare, by Still
The German group Still, author of some of my favorite demoscene productions, released last week their last demo: Square. Make sure you have a good sound system, a wide clear display, turn the lights...
View ArticleHow to use light to make better demos?
This is the third day at Revision, and my contribution this year is the talk I gave yesterday. Unlike last year, this seminar is not technical at all but focused on the design aspect and, to some...
View ArticleSIGGRAPH 2013
More and more material and news are being released about the next edition of SIGGRAPH, so here is a short summary. Technical papers The video teaser of the technical papers has been published. It looks...
View ArticleSource code of Second Reality released for its 20th anniversary
The source code and assets of Second Reality, the seminal and very highly regarded demo by the group Future Crew, was released today to the public domain and is available on GitHub. This was twenty...
View ArticleInvitation to Revision party 2014
Revision is a big demoparty held each year at Easter, in Saarbrücken, Germany. Whenever possible, it is a custom in the demoscene to release a production dedicated to officially announce upcoming...
View ArticleIntrinsic Gravity, by Still
Three years ago, the German demoscene group, Still, was releasing an experiment at shaping some of the work of late painter Victor Vasarely as animated figures in a tribute demo: Beta. The unusual...
View ArticleInsight In An Unseizable World, by Cocoon
Last Fall, the French demogroup Cocoon uncovered this beautiful ambient demo: Insight In An Unseizable World. Its technical features, including real-time fluid dynamics or screen space reflections,...
View ArticleLong hiatus
Last week I was lucky enough to attend SIGGRAPH 2018, in Vancouver. My colleagues and I were presenting on a booth the work we had done, a VR story with a distinctive comic book look. I was also...
View ArticleImplementing a Physically Based Shading without locking yourself in
Over the last few months I have been trying to push my understanding of Physically Based Shading, by actively exploring every corner and turning over every stone, to uncover any area where I lack...
View ArticleInterview with competitive live coders
Last week my friend LLB and I wrote an article about live coding. Or rather, given what the task consisted in, it would be more accurate to say that we copy-pasted the answers of six interviewees...
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