Romain Durand

Romain Durand

@rdurand.bsky.social

Founder at Ripostes.games Lead Environment Artist at GravityWell.games Previously : Wayfinder, Crash Bandicoot 4, Spyro Reignited Trilogy, Besiege... https://www.romaindurand.com/

2,555 Followers 297 Following 83 Posts Joined Jul 2023
2 days ago

Oooh I remember doing such a thing on Wayfinder, you can also use the different channels to add even more custom for your trees ( red for AO, G for a top down gradient, B for local cluster gradients)

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1 week ago

Toute l'industrie du JV devient le Ankama des années 2010. De l'argent infini pour enfermer les artistes les plus intéressants du milieu sur un jeu en ligne générique qui sera débranché en un instant sur un coup de tête du con de patron

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1 week ago

Maybe we should not all be forced to build games that require servers

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1 week ago

Agreed. The VS should be the game experience you want to make THAT IS ALSO made the way you want to make it.

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2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
still frame from the beginning of Twin Peaks
it is February 24th and Special Agent Dale Cooper arrived in the town of Twin Peaks

Good morning

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2 weeks ago

Putain merci.

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1 year ago

To those about to GDC, here are some tips from a conference veteran:

- Hollowpoint bullets. 2 to the head. One to the heart. Burn the body

- Do not eat anything containing Umlauts. Ä, Ü, Ø etc. don't touch it

- if you meet someone claiming to be from EA just run. EA is mostly cannibals these days

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1 month ago
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Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
Watched by Branson Reese 28 Apr 2022

Abrams isn't a man so much as he's an avatar of cultural entropy. If you make something popular enough eventually you will die or sell it off and and a person in thick rimmed glasses whose main artistic vision is that he loves to have meetings will take it and sandblast it until it's nothing. I hate to see this happen here but maybe it's good that this happened. Maybe every franchise should collapse into a version of itself that makes shareholders nod and shake each others' hands. We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend.

i often think about this review

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1 month ago
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Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses

Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back.

Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”

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1 month ago

Maaan, I gotta rewatch escaflowne now. Been listening to the OST to work lately

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1 month ago

How much do I need to beg to have you do my Mcgigi ?

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1 month ago

speaking of cool cheap effects: the shadow from the ceiling fan in Robo Recall is not a real shadow or even a light function or even a decal, it's a rotating translucent mesh

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1 month ago

Will we be able to scream Kaneda?

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1 month ago

Proves that investors are the dumbest people in the room.

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1 month ago

"Ethical AI" does not exist. There is no reality where you can have generative AI that's "ethically trained". There are ZERO AI models trained ethically, and there will never be any.

The term has been made up by people who want a pass on using AI. You don't get that pass, slop peddlers.

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1 month ago

You made it stylized and woke Nick how dare you

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1 month ago

The best car ever made

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1 month ago
Post LinkedIn il y a 13h00 par David Michaud Cromp, lead level designer chez Ubisoft Montreal 

“Professional update
Ubisoft informed me today of a three-day unpaid disciplinary suspension, effective Tomorrow.

The measure was presented to me as being related to public comments I expressed regarding the company’s return-to-office policy, and based on an alleged breach of the duty of loyalty.

I am sharing this information for transparency purposes. I take note of the decision and will make no further comment at this time.” Capture d’un post LinkedIn posté par le même auteur il y a cinq jours :

“So... Ubisoft wanna bring back 5 days in the office... because they "believe in collaboration"... but c'mon, we're not completely stupid... we very well know why you want to go back to 5 days in the office...

https://lnkd.in/eipkV4Zk

(Spoiler alert: it's not about efficiency or collaboration)”

Ubisoft : trois jours de suspension avec retenue sur salaire pour « violation du devoir de loyauté » après un post LinkedIn sur le retour au bureau.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/david-michaud-cromp-10668035_professional-update-ubisoft-informed-me-today-activity-7422041590854238208-HRdB

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1 month ago
A closeup from the cockpit of a MiG-21MF A closeup of some landing gear A closeup of a propeller from a large bomber

This latest ref pack is a love letter to all my hard surface artist friends

It contains 400+ (3.1GB) photos from the CAF SoCal airplane museum, including 100+ shots of tiny details from the cockpit of a MiG-21MF

Use them for anything, just make sure to credit me!

drive.google.com/file/d/1nsib...

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1 month ago
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a group of men are dancing together in a black and white photo . ALT: a group of men are dancing together in a black and white photo .

UE5's ghosting and temporal rendering is actually not that bad if you see it as an hommage to Blame It On the Boogie clip.

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1 month ago

unfortunate timing for highguard to go up against the actually important gaming event of today: deadlock adding a sleepy little guy

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1 month ago
A digital painting of an ice cube, followed by several hands closed over each other with water pouring from them. Bold text on the art reads: "ICE MELTS".

so don't get too comfortable.

#art

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1 month ago

Deleted mine more than a year ago, for the best

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2 months ago
@TimSweeneyEpic quotes @MacRumors' post that says "U.S. Senators Ask Apple and Google to Remove X and Grok Apps Over Sexualized Image Generation"

His Tweets:

1. "Reason #42 for open platforms: to shut down every politician’s incessant demands to all gatekeepers to censor all of their political opponents."

2. "All major AIs have documented instances of going off the rails; all major AI companies make their best efforts to combat this; none are perfect. Politicians demanding gatekeepers selectively crush the one that's their political opponent's company is basic crony capitalism."

So how we feelin' about that Epic ecosystem nowadays?

We all feel confident that Fortnite is a good spot for kids to hang out?

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2 months ago
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#hannibal

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2 months ago

I'm excited to be able to bring on two more roles here at Gravity Well. I hope talented, kind people apply because I love working with those people.

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2 months ago

And once again, none of the so called « developed countries » will dare to take action against what is yet another blatant aggression and colonialism act from the world police. Destroying lives and promoting violence seams to not be bad enough to react.

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2 months ago

It is your solemn duty as an American and as a person to do everything you can to oppose this war

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