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Session Name: Low Complexity, High Fidelity - INSIDE Rendering
Speaker(s): Mikkel Gjoel, Mikkel Svendsen
Company Name(s): Playdead, Playdead
Track / Format: Programming

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Overview: This talk will detail the techniques used to achieve high visual fidelity in the context of the uncompromisingly simplistic aesthetic of INSIDE - Playdead's follow-up to the critically acclaimed LIMBO.
We will describe a variety of effects used to achieve an atmospheric look, including local shadowed volumetrics and a robust water-rendering system. Seeking to fine-tune every pixel led us to author lighting as entirely separate diffuse, specular and bounce-light entities, while focusing on artist-approachable tools meant utilizing analytic primitive-based ambient occlusion and screenspace reflections.
Further we will elaborate on how the subtle details of artwork can be saved from drowning in color-banding, by properly using dithering to get rid of distracting artefacts.

GDC 2016

Mikkel Gjoel

Playdead

Mikkel Svendsen

Playdead

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