“Today I want to talk to you guys about skies,”\u00a0begins Naughty Dog’s Keith Guerrette. “Something that’s the most overlooked, and often snubbed in part of your environment–part of your visual presentation. It’s the sky.”<\/p>\n
In this 2014 GDC session,\u00a0Guerrette walks through the artistic considerations of creating a compelling, dramatic sky to cast as a backdrop for The Last of Us<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Guerette provides an overview of what the sky can do, along with the power that a well-designed sky can have on players when establishing a tone. \u00a0The hardest part about creating good skies, he admits, is making them move.<\/p>\n With the aid of pictures\u00a0and video, Guerrette shows the audience how different skies played\u00a0a huge role in The Last of Us<\/em>. But first, he breaks down the effect lighting can have everything from how people perceive facial expressions all the way to time of day.\u00a0<\/p>\n For example,\u00a0Guerrette explains\u00a0how the passage of time is relayed through light direction and\u00a0how the narrative is effected by lighting. Setting the sky is imperative for setting the mood.<\/p>\n \u00a0Visual effects artists curious to see how they can utilize the power of the sky in their projects can now\u00a0watch the talk completely free via the official GDC YouTube channel!<\/a><\/p>\n In addition to this presentation, the\u00a0GDC Vault<\/a>\u00a0and its accompanying\u00a0YouTube channel<\/a>\u00a0offers numerous other free videos, audio recordings, and slides from many of the recent\u00a0Game Developers Conference events<\/a>, and the service offers even more members-only content for GDC Vault subscribers.<\/p>\n Those who purchased All Access passes to recent events like GDC or VRDC\u00a0already have full access to GDC Vault, and interested parties can apply for the individual subscription via\u00a0a GDC Vault subscription page<\/a>. Group subscriptions are also available: game-related schools and development studios who sign up for GDC Vault Studio Subscriptions can receive access for their entire office or company by contacting staff via the\u00a0GDC Vault group subscription page<\/a>. Finally, current subscribers with access issues can\u00a0contact GDC Vault technical support<\/a>.<\/p>\n Gamasutra and GDC are sibling organizations under parent UBM Americas.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Today I want to talk to you guys about skies,”\u00a0begins Naughty Dog’s Keith Guerrette. “Something that’s the most overlooked, and often snubbed in part of your environment–part of your visual presentation. It’s the sky.” In this 2014 GDC session,\u00a0Guerrette walks through the artistic considerations of creating a compelling, dramatic sky to cast as a backdrop […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}