Valentine Kozin

@9of9.bsky.social

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Lead Technical Artist at ☠️Rare☠️ | 🎭 BAFTA Member Game developer, Houdini user, maker of pretty things.

Backrooms-style photo of Overbrewed being played by some stressed out baristas behind frosted glass.
A starship bridge in Star Trek Online - absurdly tall ceilings, vast amounts of empty space, people and doorways dwarfed by the space.
Your delta e ok JND 0.0032 Okay this is genuinely impressive. You're well below the standard JND of 0.02. The CIE should be sending you a job offer. Or at least a certificate.
Text excerpt: In a "true" metroidbrania, what you know is the only real form of progression; a player who already knows all the secrets can start a fresh save and immediately go through the motions of beating the game, skipping over most of the game.
Infrared false colour photo showing a photo of cotton-candy-pink trees, blue skies and one featureless white flag.
Posted by bduxbellorum 7 years ago: Holy shit, that was by far the stupidest scene in the episodes for me. Let's build an ethical AI that's smart enough to figure out when it's necessary to change from protocol. But let's have that AI be too ignorant to actually use that capacity until it is challenged/coached through it by a smart lawyer-like prisoner! Her arguments were not clever! Her instructions were not clever! But the AI would have let her die if she hadn't asked for them specifically. Any AI smart enough to calculate the odds of escape would have taken action so long before being asked by a human, this scene should never have happened. This was mind-killingly earth shatteringly stupid. This multi-billion dollar spaceship has The Microsoft Paperclip for its AI.
Crop on a tree in a photo from the Verge Hasselblad X2D ii review, showing completely unremarkable, blurry leaves.
Vectorscope display of colours from the digital photo with film emulation.
A digital photo of some camera lenses with UltraMax 400 Filmbox Pro film emulation.
The Immortality Design Works Deluxe Edition box sitting on my desk, featuring signed "Polaroids" of Manon Gage and Ty Molbak, as well as a card signed by Sam Barlow.
Screenshot close up of Smiling Jack from Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines
Group photo from Sea of Thieves fest of some of the Sea of Thieves developers and a couple of folks from the community.
Photo of a page out of the Acknowledgement section in The Library of Ancient Wisdom. The full passage (though cut-off in this photo) reads: This book has its unlikely roots in the theatre. I first got to know Ashurbanipal, his family, and scholars through writing a trilogy of stage plays about them. I thank the creative team, cast and crew of the National Theatre of Akkad for the heavy metal/Noh production of Ashurbanipal: The Last Great King of Assyria - Thomas Stell, Andrew Garner, Tom Clucas, Alex Woolley, Anahita Hoose, Timothy Foot, Rebecca Daley, Ante Qu, Abigail Adams, Claudia Freemantle, William Bolton, Frencesca Whalen, Darya Shchepanovska, Antonio Mateiro, Tess Colley, Dòmnhall-Iain MacDonald, Francesca Balestrieri, Trudy Lynn, Sami Ibrahim, Felix Pollock and Valentine Kozin; all who worked on teh naturalistic Esarhaddon: The Substitute King - Lucy Wood, Andrew Garner, Rebecca Wilkin, Laura Cull, Catherine O'Leary, Rose Azad Khan, Hannah Street, Olivia Lalude-Haworth, Francesca Balestrieri and Elyn Vandenwyngaert; and all behind the immersive version of Ashurbanipal staged at the Crypt Gallery in 2019 - Justin Murray, Victoria Jones, Charlotte Potter, Laurence Varda, Michal Banai, Wayne Wilson, Melissa Taydon, John Lutula, George Chaffey, Hakan Hafizoglu, Rachel Wise and Davide Vox.
Close-up photo of a cuneiform tablet... wait, no, it's just the sleeve of Dr. Wisnom's new book, The Library of Ancient Wisdom!
Screenshot from a text in Avowed, which reads: "Unless the words we use to describe this continent, "The Living Lands," were given to us by the Godless. Unless these words have a meaning only they could comprehend. Unless these words have a history only they could know - and the haecceity, the "thisness" of this place, was lost with them."
Screenshot of article, from a segment talking about Yarvin's critique of democracy and the mention of Balaji in Vanity Fair, which segues into two paragraphs that start by saying "However, his thinking increasingly aligned with neo-reactionary ideas, particularly around the concept of exit" and ends with "the final step is embracing the idea that democracy should be replaced entirely with more efficient forms of governance, often modeled on corporate structures or technological systems".
Screenshot from Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, showing Indy and Sophia Hapgood on the Azores. An old man, Felipe Costa asks Indy "Do you know where Atlantis is?"
Analogous screenshot from V:TM Shadows of New York PC version, featuring menu buttons in the top left rather than top right, speaker name justified left, along with the text, a condensed text box and generally somewhat more sensible, nicer flow.
Short video flipping through a lovely photo book.
Highlighted excerpt from the article: "...to qualify them for Academy Awards - in a small number of theaters, a few of which the company owns or operates like the [begin highlight] Paris in New York, or the Egyptian in Los Angeles [end highlight]. After that it dumps them on the platform. Some of these films, including Martin Scorsese's The Irishman..."
Wide angle shot of Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg on stage in Denver at SIGGRAPH 2024.
Screenshot of the TNG Enterprise viewport head on, showing a Romulan admiral from the front (TNG episode Data's Day, courtesy of reddit user MurrayL).
Just a sleepy little clay pig pot, just a little guy.
Photo of Shoreditch at night, with drizzling rain bright lights, office buildings rising up ominously in the distance.
Studio portrait, Welshman with a great big two-hander sword, looking like a dope-ass warrior
Close-up shot of a bee sitting on the yellow flower stalks of a mahonia plant.
A very handsome cat sitting on a wall, looking at the camera demurely.
Close-up portrait photo of a tiger, from below.
Photo of a wooden door at the studio with a big plastic sign above it which reads "ON AIR" currently switched off. There is also a big dark-furred dog looking out through the window in the door, kind of ominously.
Photo of the canal in Utrecht in the summer - people sitting on the banks while a boat of revellers floats down the middle. Analogue filmic vibe. 2.39:1 aspect ratio. Shot on a Nikon Z6ii with a Sirui 35mm 1.6x anamorphic.
A close-up photo of a disassembled Helios-44 body, with the glass lens elements laid out on a microfibre cloth.
Photo of a girl walking under a balcony, framed by some neoclassical free-standing arches.
Portrait photo of @monstressmedusa posing in a graveyard wearing a crucifix, sunglasses, fishnets and red vinyl skirt
Portrait photo of a handsome Italian man wearing a bead necklace and an Xbox t-shirt, with a bead necklace, swirly bokeh in the background.
A short video clip depicting a camera slowly approaching an old-fashioned trunk, on top of which are a selection of antique items - some cameras, a chalice, some keys. The scene is rendered with hopefully a very convincing sense of cinematic realism.
An even more zoomed-in photo of Rare Studios, a red brick building with blue and green edgings, sits across a field of autumnal reeds and grasses. It's surrounded by trees and sits under an overcast sky, later in the day than the previous photo, gently lit by golden hour sunlight.
Photo of a redbrick university building covered in snow on a cloudy day. Some of the interiors visible in the windows have a bright blue-green hue. The colour dropper indicates that these pixels have an emission spectrum with a distinctive two sharp peaks.
The same flowery garden photo now mostly in pink and blue-green, as the tristimulus curves have been dialled in to match the first three Fourier basis functions.
The same flowery garden scene as above, now with adjusted tristimulus curves, which have the Y curve being activated more strongly by much shorter wavelengths than normal, splitting most greens into blues and yellows.
A normal colour photo of a garden with colourful flowers, next to a set of three standard activation functions for cone receptors.
A colour photo of flowers, next to a Houdini detail panel showing tristimulus activation functions.
Graph of S, M and L activation curves with wavelength as the X axis. The label reads "Normalized responsivity spectra of human cone cells, S, M and L types (SMJ data based on Stiles and Burch RGB color-matching, linear scale, weighted for equal energy).
Houdini screenshot, showing a stack of spectral slices of a photograph, and an eyedropper tool, showing the spectrum of visible light at a given pixel.
A stack of grayscale pixel grids, each layer showing a spectral slice of the visual spectrum of the image.
Houdini screenshot, showing a stack of spectral slices of a photograph, and an eyedropper tool, showing the spectrum of visible light at a given pixel.
Photo of a young boy sitting on a bench with a view of the Oka river, with the St. Alexander Nevskiy Cathedral in the distance.
RealityCapture screenshot of a tree trunk 3d reconstruction
A really clear photo of the waxing gibbous moon.
A tighter square crop on the first photo of a street in Birmingham, showing off a Ladbrokes in the distance, the blue tram, the contact lenses shop and people walking about.
Photo of a street in Birmingham, 2.39:1 crop, featuring a tram, some people crossing the road, a sign for contact lenses and a 'Greek Streetfood' sign.
Screenshot of a segment of the Call of Duty Black Ops 6 Display Settings, showing highlighted a setting named "Pause Game Rendering" for turning off game rendering when in menus, as well as "Reduce Quality When Inactive".
Photo of a new Nikon Z8 camera with a smallrig cage sitting on a wooden desk.
Screenshot of Rook from Dragon Age: Veilguard, with dialogue by Solas: "Firstly, I abhor the use of blood magic. Secondly, had I the power to control you, I would already have used it."
Worlds Apart banner, depicting an orange sun against a purple sky, with the words "Worlds Apart". What can I say, it's a text adventure game, there's not much screenshots can do.
The Void title card, featuring Aya.
Screenshot from Culpa Innata, featuring the protagonist Phoenix Wallace.
Get to know my game taste - for every like I will post one game I love
Photo of the camera/lens selection at Hopkinson, Nottingham
Photo of a tiny footbridge amidst the woodland in Cannock Chase, covered in early morning frost while golden light filters in through the trees.
Tile slide named SIGGRAPH 2018, Technical Art of Sea of Thieves, Valentine Kozin, Rare Ltd. Not an actual preview for the video - to access the video, you gotta click the link.