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• general:
• level: user
• personal:
• first name: Jeff
• last name: Symons
• portals:
• demozoo: profile
• cdcs:
• cdc #1: Darkness Lay Your Eyes Upon Me by Conspiracy [web]
• cdc #2: fermi paradox by Mercury [web]

• demo Windows liquid sun by Rebels
• Not my favourite rebels demo but I don't hate it. One of the things I usually like from rebels is the demos are very colourful but I do think this one needs to dial back the saturation just a bit. Also the colour separation in the CA effect is way too strong for a simple channel shift where it is breaking objects up into 3 distinct shapes which is a peeve of mine lately. I think if you want a super strong CA you need to do a multistep blended shift so the colours aren't detached from the original shape (see how the logicoma demo did it). Just some constructive feedback.
  
  I really liked the end part with the hexagonal shaped object with the light rays.
• rulezadded on the 2016-10-24 22:31:24
• 64k Windows Elysian by Logicoma [web]
• So clean and stylish. Amazing soundtrack, had to double check that this is really 64k because that music sounds way to good fit in such a small size. Fantastic effort.
• rulezadded on the 2016-10-24 13:29:23
• 4k Windows Bubble Trouble by Loonies [web]
• Oh man this blew me away on stream. Awesome realtime GI. It's a bit more noisy seeing the real thing but I understand why that is. Just wondered if it might benefit from a bilateral filter pass just to smooth it out a bit? Runs very fast on a 1070 by the way.
• rulezadded on the 2016-10-24 10:00:56
• 1k Windows Escalated by Onslaught [web]
• Mudlord: might be nothing at this stage. Kinda unmotivated and unhappy with everything I do recently, barely managed to release this.
  
  Going to release the source as part of a "how to make a modern pc 1k intro" tutorial some time soon-ish. In the meantime I put an approximation of the shader on shadertoy, it's nothing magical by any means, just hacky tiny code.
  
  https://www.shadertoy.com/view/MtK3Wc
• isokadded on the 2016-10-24 09:25:35
• 4k Windows Flashdrive by LJ & Virgill [web]
• Eh I just realised that is in fact a hard drive plater and not a record... too early in the morning for me.
• isokadded on the 2016-10-23 22:11:52
• 4k Windows Flashdrive by LJ & Virgill [web]
• Some nice scenes, interesting theme. I liked the record turntable.
• rulezadded on the 2016-10-23 21:00:55
• 8k Windows Blue Morpho by Eos
• First of all I really like this. There is a nice softness to the scenes. Sounds like an interesting rendering method and neat trick with dropping down mip levels for the DoF effect.
  
  Is this meant to have a very long precalc? When I first ran it I thought it had just failed silently since I got no indication it was working, I actually got up from the computer and went off and did some other things then when I came back some time later it suddenly started running the demo. Also everything seemed to work ok at the start but just after the scene with the butterfly I just had a black screen.
• rulezadded on the 2016-10-23 20:57:18
• demo Flash Vibrance by Red Sector Inc. [web]
• I really like the artwork. This is an interesting mix of oldschool and new design.
• rulezadded on the 2016-10-23 20:51:18
• demo Windows darkness by Strange
• I really like this style. I wish there was more!
• rulezadded on the 2016-10-23 20:48:54
• demo Windows LIMITEO by Bon^2 [web]
• I liked some of the scenes in this. There is definitely some more polishing work which could be done to make it better but I know how it is sometimes when you are just doing your best to release anything at all.
  
  Just some small advice and I mean this respectfully, feel free to take it or not, but maybe try to leave your personal drama out of your demos. If you want to vent and take swipes at each other then maybe do it on your blog or facebook or somewhere more appropriate. I understand that you two have some issues you are working through but airing your dirty laundry in public is always a bit distasteful. It's a shame to tarnish your creative work with bickering, at least for me it takes away a lot of the enjoyment of the demo by having to take the soap opera that goes with it. This goes for both of you by the way.
• rulezadded on the 2016-10-23 20:47:29