Hypertrooper
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That's a gif from knack? Where? I haven't seen that trailer. :/Knack is the closest we have got to a pixar movie visuals, though thats not very close lol.
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Are there any games that you would consider Pixar quality?
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Muchi Muchi Pink
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Of course. Mononoke-Hime is my favourite Ghibli. Animation, artstyle, details everything is godlike. Still waiting for the bd.
ThaneKrios
Banned
SO BRAVE.
Not in the slightest. The image quality is just not there.
We must have been playing a different game then.
Or your TV isn't calibrated properly.
HueyFreeman
Banned
Wow that's the first time I've seen knack look really impressive. Cool.
At the end of the day though the art style just isn't up to snuff.
ACiT is also very good:
I love ACIT but it looks nothing like that during gameplay.
Actually good call. I wouldn't have thought about it but probably the best answer.
Muchi Muchi Pink
Member
If we look at 2D animation: Vampire Savior.
I really cant understand how people can bear these cartoon movies for the past 13 years.
Even the one about videogames started nice, but then suddenly sucked (yeah, by the time the annoying girl with the Sarah Silverman voice took the screen the movie was dead)
Dion Blaster
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I literally saw both movies for the first time this week and this comparison does nothing but hurt my brain.
People are posting small gifs of the cutscenes on Knack and pretending the actual game looks like that, so I'll post this and say we might be close to even surpassing Pixar quality already.
Couldn't find a better gif, but you don't mind some FFXIII spoilers this is the cutscene I'm talking about. FFXIII Chapter 12 Opening
Couldn't find a better gif, but you don't mind some FFXIII spoilers this is the cutscene I'm talking about. FFXIII Chapter 12 Opening
Dion Blaster
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Valve and Nintendo games give me that vibe. Plus Ratchet and Clank
BurnOutBrighter
Banned
The PS3 Ratchet & Clank games.
Sorry, did you mean to quote me? I didn't mention atmosphere. I'm replying to the OP.
When I think quality in games I think of Nintendo's first party stuff. Ergo Pikmin 3 and Super Mario 64 and Mario Galaxy and maybe even um, Rareware! (Old Rare!)
Lol it takes a Pixar Render farm like 12 hours to render a single frame/
Arc Christelle
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Yeah, I was trying to confirm what you were saying when you compared Pixar and Nintendo. I thought you were saying that they had a similar feel.
Your eyes must not be calibrated properly, it's sub-HD and not even in the same ball park as Pixar films IQ wise.
Raonak
Banned
depends what "pixar quality" means.
speaking in terms of tech, it would be hard, since gameplay has performance cost because it's dynamic. unlike a pixar movie which is just essentially a giant cutscene. thus has no performance cost what so ever.
so cutscene wise, i think ratchet: ACIT and FFXIII are pixar quality.
I think this gen, we'll get really close to the overall look.
speaking in terms of tech, it would be hard, since gameplay has performance cost because it's dynamic. unlike a pixar movie which is just essentially a giant cutscene. thus has no performance cost what so ever.
so cutscene wise, i think ratchet: ACIT and FFXIII are pixar quality.
I think this gen, we'll get really close to the overall look.
As far as 'feels' is concerned I think the two are difficult to match considering they function in two different mediums.
The Dutch Slayer
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I think that's the closest I have seen as well. And consistently so. Other games might have moments, but ACIT was that way the whole time.
Lightning Lord
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Personally I think comparing the graphics of Pixar films and video games is rather pointless, because Pixar films are always going to superior. I think we should be comparing more in terms of art style, in which I feel that Nintendo (namely, franchises such as Mario, Donkey Kong, and Pikmin) come the closest to matching.
When will people give up with the Pixar thing. It's never going to happen, it won't be remotely close. Part from in a very superficial way.
Weird counterexamples. Especially MK8... what clean look?
Weird counterexamples. Especially MK8... what clean look?
I think the writing is wear Pixar sets themselves apart. They have had a few slip ups, but over all they tell wonderful stories. I was even surprised by Monsters U seeing as every sequel that they have done was a bit on the weak side.
A lot of people compare R&C due to graphics and charm, though I personally find the comparison doesn't hold up seeing as the moment to moment dialogue is far superior mostly due to it being targeted to a bit older audience (with a lot of adult stuff alluded to).
However it does capture the sort of all in one package charm that you find in say Finding Nemo or the Incredibles.
Pretty much any Nintendo game that I can think of that strikes a similar aesthetic is very minimal on the Character deliver, dialogue and story telling. And all the games that do focus on a story like the Mario & Luigi RPGs have a completely different feel.
at the end of the day making a comparison is Apples to Oranges, but you can tell when these differing mediums are cultivated with equal care and delivery.
lordchompy
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mrmickfran
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Super Mario Galaxy
Viewtiful Joe
Bayonetta
Super Mario World
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
Viewtiful Joe
Bayonetta
Super Mario World
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
OldAsUrSock
Banned
On human models Pixar's movies look horrible, but everything else is far better than any video game.
That's more Studio Ghibli.
Thaumaturgic Tomato
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Couple of years ago, for fun, Pixar rendered portions of the first Toy Story, original assets and settings, on their current much faster render farm. Each frame still took 2 hours to render.
So even Pixar can't do 1995 Pixar quality in real time.
edit: PS The gaming world needs more Guilty Gear Xrd style animation, not Pixar.
So even Pixar can't do 1995 Pixar quality in real time.
edit: PS The gaming world needs more Guilty Gear Xrd style animation, not Pixar.
zeopower6
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That's from the reveal trailer back in February, lol.
abstract alien
Member
REmake
Who cares how it's made and why it looks so damn good. It looks pixar quality while I play it. That's all a care about.
Who cares how it's made and why it looks so damn good. It looks pixar quality while I play it. That's all a care about.
lordchompy
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I stand corrected. I guess we are reaching a point of diminishing returns. Because, at least superficially, Sully doesn't look all that much better with 5x the number of individual hairs in this movie. Sure, he looks better, but not 29 hours for a single frame better.
copelandmaster
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On CPU's or GPU's? If it was cpu's, then no wonder it took so long
I bet with a couple of racks of NVIDIA grid GPU's, they could have probably done that much faster.
BTW, for people saying FFXIII, look familar?
EDIT:
No wonder. For MU, they used servers with 24,000 cpu cores. GPU based rendering really needs to catch on, they might have been able to complete certain scenes faster with GPU based rendering.
Then again... if it took them this long to switch over to a cpu based GI renderer, it'll be awhile before they switch again.
vivftp
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I know it's not an actual game, but doesn't the Dark Sourcerer demo come closer than anything else? If they are going to build an actual game that equals or surpasses the graphics of that demo, I would say that has to be pretty close to Pixar quality, or at least as close as we'll get in a game.
SenjutsuSage
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Blue Dragon.