The Retreat

As we all know, not all techniques are created equal. Sometimes, you've got crazy things that work amazingly well and you've got highly complicated things which don't really reached the level of success you would like. I've tinkered around with some of the images that I have in my library to see what can be done in the intersection between these notional spaces. All of the images are from my Lytro, light-field library , meaning that the native source is roughly 1030 x 1030 with the addition of a 330 x 330 grayscale depth map. Given that data, I can create an image from the seven 1030 x 1030 slightly offset image slices that Lytro can export, align and stack them in Photoshop, then feed them into another tool for presentation altogether: in this case, Depthy . Let's start with something simple, the key ring that came up with my Homeworld Collectors Edition preorder: Homeworld on a chain. Pointedly, not in use. This is animated with #Depthy from the afor...

Story Seed – DarkRun This story seed is intended to be used with Kingdom as a means of quickly assembling a game session setup for 3 - 5 players. The future has arrived in a long black limousine with windows so deeply shaded that you can see the reflection of the nothingness over the city. Cybernetics are old hat; you can go out to grab a cheap Chinese dinner and get the colour of your eyes changed as easily as a crappy tattoo. Behind the dirt and the hustle, the old dance between corporations, governments, and the individual still turns, as brittle and stately as a retired debutante. The chrome and plastic and clean concrete hide something altogether different that only a few see but everyone feels. Some go just a little bit mad and rip open tiny holes between worlds to let their madness out. Some ignore the lure of implanted steel for grafts from creatures no one has ever seen walking the Earth. A few make deals with alien gods and demons, trading a little bit of blood, a hand...