Jonathan Cooper

That is some clean UI

Streets of Rage and Streets of Rage 2 boxes atop a poster for the former

What a pair

Shipping Neural Texture Compression in Assassin’s Creed Mirage A neural material texture compression technique that uses machine learning to exploit the cross-channel structure and reconstruct full PBR materials in real time, enabling high compression rate in Ass...

An actual real use of “AI” in games (machine learning) by serious game developers (instead of grifters).

A white mug with a pixel art rendering Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design in Dundee.

Saturday morning coffee with a pixel art rendering of my old art school.

Street Fighter 6 - Alex Motion Capture - BTS feat. Kenny Omega YouTube video by Street Fighter

I saw Kenny Omega take a chair in the back from Yoshinori Ono at the Capcom Cup in downtown LA back in 2019. Glad they finally put him in a mocap suit.

'I based horror video game on working in a Scottish chippy' Developer James Muirhead said his old job provided the perfect setting for his latest creation.

'I based horror game on working in a Scottish chippy' - @deepcrypt.games

The Annie Award for Character Animation - Video Game went to:
'South of Midnight' — Compulsion Games

53rd Annie Awards Announcing South of Midnight as the winner of Best Character Animation in a Video Game.

The opportunity to bring to life characters that are wonderfully imperfect, but doing the best they know how within a messy world, and to be able to reflect that in the animations style, was a dream come true. To have our work celebrated by our peers at ASIFA-Hollywood, is humbling.

The Art of Death Dtranding 2: On The Beach, placed beside the original.

New library addition came out last week

Red and green lit tunnel leaning into the bunker

A lone red telephone sits on a desk

The machine and boiler room

Wartime era phone, television and other paraphernalia.

Exploring Edinburgh’s secret bunker

A Katsuya Terada Zelda illustration. Link walks up some dark stairs

A Katsuya Terada Zelda illustration. Link looks at an ancient mural of a dream whale

A Katsuya Terada Zelda illustration. Link battles a shadow version of themselves

A Katsuya Terada Zelda illustration. Link comforts a wounded man in the sewers

The 40th anniversary of Zelda is all the excuse you need to submerge yourself in classic Katsuya Terada art.

Whereas this example was pretty much a 1:1 match - impressive given it's the final boss-fight with Ganon.

This overlay shows how minor modifications were made between planning and implementation, such as the addition of the fire and narrowing of the entrance/exit.

Hyrule Field map, drawn on paper

Hyrule Field map, drawn on paper

Here is the Hyrule Field map original paper layout, and another overlaid with design elements...

Zelda background planning sheets drawn on paper

Zelda background planning sheets drawn on paper

Zelda background planning sheets drawn on paper

Zelda background planning sheets drawn on paper

Some more background planning sheets...

Zelda level layout drawings on paper

Zelda level layout drawings on paper

Zelda level layout drawings on paper

Zelda level layout drawings on paper

These background tile-sets and level layouts were also reportedly drawn by Miyamoto...

Original Zelda sprites drawn on paper

Original Zelda sprites drawn on paper

Original Zelda sprites drawn on paper

Original Zelda sprites drawn on paper

The Legend of Zelda (1986 - released 40 years ago today) sprite table (presumably for memory allocation purposes) and enemy character progression sheets, all drawn by Shigeru Miyamoto.

Zelda manual with character and disk stickers.

Famicom Disk System yellow disk.

Also came with stickers. Such a cool format.

Released 40 years ago today, almost a year and a half before the NES downgrade (inferior music and save system) in the US.

Just for today

Zelda 1 & 2 Famicom Disk System version, in front of the console.

The OG

Boxes for Genesis copies of: “Castle of Illusion starring Mickey Mouse” “Fantasia” “World of Illusion starring Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck” “Quack shot starring Donald Duck”

This has to be some kind of set right?

A post in Dundee adorned by signs reading: “THIS IS NOT A POO BIN” “THERE IS NO POO BAG FAIRY”

💩 🧚

Deluxe Paint for the Amiga by Dan Silva and Electronic Arts

The GOAT

Happy 35th #Lemmings anniversary!

Who'd have thought, 35 years later we'd still be talking about these little guys.

#Amiga #MSDOS #AtariST #Commodore #Atari #DMADesign #Psygnosis #RETROGAMING #Lemmings35th

Read about it's making here
lemmings.info/lemmings-gam...

Jaegon Allison's 2KXO eye material (not the eye mesh) driven by controls in Maya. Super impressive stuff. www.artstation.com/artwork/nJmaYE

Silent Hill: Townfall - Reveal Trailer | PS5 Games YouTube video by PlayStation

Congrats to Glasgow's Screen Burn Interactive (formerly No Code) on the SILENT HILL: Townfall reveal. Another great-looking Scottish game incoming!

Awesome work. Love how the pose fills the frame.

ロトスコープってどんな手法？「Dear me, I was...」の制作者へインタビュー Part1 YouTube video by アークシステムワークスアカデミー

Rotoscoping on Arc System Works' "Dear Me, I Was..."

Thanks very much!