It's interesting to note how many of the creature FX are practical—direwolves, the bear, many birds, horses in close-up (even for falls and deaths!), giants (compositing), White Walkers (makeup), and I'm sure others. I think that helps sell the more fantastical FX (dragons, wights) and allows the vfx budget to go…

Ahh, I didn't assume that, because the dragons really are CG characters. What about the composite do you find "embarrassing"? Blend, lighting match, scale, hair roto? I'm curious because I tend to visually register the wolves as "just part of the world," even moreso than, say, Brienne's bear, which I assumed was CG…

Well, Jojen's actor is 24. Some googling confirms that Isaac Hempsted-Wright is 15, though, so keep it in your pants for a few years. Or ship Jojen with Jon Snow, they can go be story-stymieing snow buddies.

In other words, you're finding the CG stuff convincing, and the real stuff unconvincing…which is one hell of a compliment to the amazing VFX team on this show.

That's sort of funny, because most (almost all) of the shots with direwolves use actual wolves shot on green-screen with stuntpeople and composited in a little bigger than life size, the same way they do the giants. See: https://www.youtube.com/wat… , or for a longer breakdown of how they shoot with the wolves, https:/…

Yes. Mark Hemingway.

Well then why the hell isn't Kit Harington starring in Hairspray on Broadway right now? You tell me that.

If Jon Snow had only been born in the Crownlands. "You know nothing, Jon Waters."

In some ways yes, in some ways no. UI/UX design is a subset or child of many fields, including ergonomics, graphic design, programming, fashion.... There are elements where the fashion of the day will rule, but there are elements that are permanently affected by experience and continual refinement. UI/UX typography…

Heh.

Pretty much just brown over here—one eye or two, periphery or no. Just...brown.

I'm disappointed that io9 would promote such an obvious scam. This device isn't physically possible, at least not at the price they're suggesting and with the claims they're making. The sensor setup alone is incredibly implausible, having no built-in lighting and apparently working at an arbitrary distance, and the…

This device is impossible even with CMYK inks, sadly. I'm disappointed that io9 would promote an obvious scam.

There's no reason to be rude and there's every reason to doubt even the theoretical capabilities of this device. This is the same company whose original concept for the pen used RGB ink (indicating a hilarious failure to understand basic color theory). Combine that with the heavy gamut compression from using RGB input…

Oh my god, exactly this.

You might be right about that. That said, I wouldn't have to go side by side with the original game to tell the differences in the new footage. I don't think that things like animation, character design, and level design are trivial, and I wouldn't mistake the new "test" footage for the old game—the improvements are…

as it turns out, yes

To be fair, the video suggests that it's a conceptual build, and so I'd assume those aren't even close to final textures. You'd want to be looking at systems like sky and water, character design and animation, level design, and especially gameplay mechanics. I see new moves, an all-new combat system, monster…

I think you can safely assume that any normal human's first encounter with the level of violence that Lara experiences on a daily basis might cause some trauma, yeah. If you're intent on doing a prequel, this might seem like the most obvious dramatically honest way to go. There's a lot in the details of the first game…

"I would find the presence of people who are not like me embarrassing and uncomfortable, even though I ostensibly have no problem with them. I would prefer to prevent people who are not like me from appearing in simulations of real life. I also have a problem with people who don't share my random distaste and who…