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screenshot added by Gargaj on 2018-09-09 04:08:08
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release date : september 2018
release party : Function 2018
compo : pc demo
ranked : 2nd
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  • Gargaj Gargaj [Code, graphics, animation, music]
added on the 2018-09-09 04:07:31 by Gargaj Gargaj

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that was pretty nice!
rulez added on the 2018-09-09 04:35:16 by psenough psenough
Really enjoyed this. I wish I gave myself more opportunities to just watch the world go by IRL.

FYI though, gives a black screen when run in 2560x1080.
rulez added on the 2018-09-09 06:26:58 by cpdt cpdt
again not your typical demo. very atmospheric and good looking. awesome soundscape as well.
rulez added on the 2018-09-09 07:57:54 by sensenstahl sensenstahl
For the athmosphere
rulez added on the 2018-09-09 08:41:14 by Triace Triace
So delicate. The mood is great! Love the harmonies, when it explores chords there's always a surprising note.
(+10 points for the cat, way better than a dolphin or shark).
My favorite in the compo, by a fair margin.
rulez added on the 2018-09-09 08:57:33 by alkama alkama
Nagyon szép jelenetek vannak ebben a demóban, menő meg minden. Valamint éljen a post process.
De azért felmerült bennem a kérdés, hogy azok a hinták vajon kinek készülhettek.
rulez added on the 2018-09-09 09:18:43 by slyspy slyspy
what triace said
rulez added on the 2018-09-09 09:22:31 by no longer active no longer active
Oh YES! Please do more of this!
rulez added on the 2018-09-09 09:25:43 by xTr1m xTr1m
"but you'll just watch it on YouTube anyway, right?"

Actually i cant find one yet but i saw it at the live stream yesterday! :)
rulez added on the 2018-09-09 09:29:04 by magic magic
so athmospheric and moody. nice!
rulez added on the 2018-09-09 10:09:11 by wbcbz7 wbcbz7
should have won. really atmospheric product with one of the best demo soundtracks this year.
rulez added on the 2018-09-09 11:26:58 by waffle waffle
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rulez added on the 2018-09-09 11:35:02 by moozooh moozooh
THE winner for me.
rulez added on the 2018-09-09 11:50:53 by BoyC BoyC
Love this kind of stuff, super moody and let’s me make up my own backstory. Music was great as well. Ace work!
rulezcdc added on the 2018-09-09 12:10:58 by okkie okkie
In the 90s the earliest 3D demos were just camera flights showing a few 3DSmax scenes with nothing moving. Today it's the same but with less camera displacement: graphics compo entries packed in a demo. A demo needs not to use physics, but stuff can move like they do in Fulcrum by Matrix or any CG enabled movies.
(the only moving objects was the cleaning robot, but it was behind heads of audience. You have to party code your camera view points when you see the big screen)
added on the 2018-09-09 13:38:20 by archee archee
This demo is a masterclass in creating ambience. The music is stellar!

Oh, and Archee: how’s that one-trick physics pony you’ve been riding for over a decade? Stale?
rulez added on the 2018-09-09 14:14:03 by gloom gloom
Well done, well done - I love the mood, and that it makes me think - demos usually don't make me do that anymore.
Bonus points for the cat <3
rulez added on the 2018-09-09 14:42:00 by mog mog
very moody, very cinematic, very nice music.
rulez added on the 2018-09-09 15:03:41 by wysiwtf wysiwtf
nicely done. great atmosphere. great music.
For me, the winner of the compo!
rulez added on the 2018-09-09 15:19:39 by TrX TrX
Exactly what Gloom said!

On the top of :
Lately we have had some differences in what we find artistic, exciting or just "beautiful" ( usually about the 64k entries @Revision :) ), but this entry man... Absolutely the darkest, most gloomy entry I've ever seen from you. You were 100% able to show what does it mean to be ALONE. Loved it from the first until the last second.

The WINNER OF THE COMPO for me.
rulez added on the 2018-09-09 16:08:21 by Maugli Maugli
Quote:
Oh, and Archee: how’s that one-trick physics pony you’ve been riding for over a decade? Stale?


OOOHHHH SIIICK BUUURN!!

But about this demo: kinda like Darkness Lay Your Eyes Upon Me, but wetter, more pensive, less ominous. I like the subtle integration of scene-poetry into signs without going as far as CNCD/FLT stuff. Very good scene design.
rulez added on the 2018-09-09 16:41:28 by phoenix phoenix
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on GeForce 1060 and R7 580; should run 60ish in 720 on those [...] the miracle that is Substance Painter

Excuse me but did you by any chance upload the wrong version?! Because the version I just downloaded and watched looked like 90s CG that should run with 60 fps on an Intel HD 3000. The demo itself would be awesome if it werent for the the lo-fi rendering that is just too distracting for me to get into the mood.
added on the 2018-09-09 17:54:01 by LJ LJ
youtube please
added on the 2018-09-09 19:46:21 by skarab skarab
beautiful
rulez added on the 2018-09-09 20:54:31 by laila laila
i got very painterly vibes from this (although that's the wrong word). for its short length it evoked a lot of feelings and had a good reflective atmosphere. really nice!

also "THE DUCK" made me laugh
rulez added on the 2018-09-09 20:57:22 by beefheid beefheid
Szavakkal nem tudom leírni milyen érzéseket váltott ki bennem ez a demó.
rulez added on the 2018-09-09 22:34:33 by aha aha
Boring and ugly textures.
sucks added on the 2018-09-09 23:10:34 by Zplex Zplex
Very atmospheric and mature
rulez added on the 2018-09-09 23:17:25 by ratz ratz
interesting graphic-style, and nice touches with the cat & the signs indeed
rulez added on the 2018-09-09 23:41:21 by wullon wullon
totally captivating. must and will rewatch it on a decent setup soon.
rulez added on the 2018-09-10 10:03:39 by gentleman gentleman
a very emotional ride, very well covered by the great soundtrack.
and in my book the compowinner.
rulez added on the 2018-09-10 10:55:51 by gopher gopher
We had a great time (partly melancholic) watching this best demo in the compo, or even the best one of slow-paced static-scenes moody demos.
rulez added on the 2018-09-10 12:28:53 by zden zden
<3
rulez added on the 2018-09-10 23:25:02 by leijaa leijaa
Lately, ÜD demos tend to be more impressive the more you watch them, both on a technical and on a mental level. Even though semi-static scenes are usually not my cup of tea, this was already very enjoyable at the party and got even better now that I'm watching it at home on my own -- which is quite possibly how it's meant to be watched.
rulez added on the 2018-09-10 23:45:50 by jimmi jimmi
a little sad for me, but ok
rulez added on the 2018-09-11 09:35:44 by rascy rascy
Atmosphere, ambience and melancholic mood conveyed perfectly. Attention to some details is amazing.
rulez added on the 2018-09-11 10:45:36 by provod provod
In my opinion this demo was the most beautiful one. And a giant <3 for the cat :)
rulez added on the 2018-09-11 11:18:13 by netro netro
Okay so what if. What if. We had a whole demo of watching a rainy street scroll by from the window of a bus. When I saw the screenshot, and the demo did not start on my machine due to some missing DLL, I was really hoping for that.

But hey, there was a cat.
rulez added on the 2018-09-11 12:03:59 by Trilkk Trilkk
Flyby with style. Some scenes didn't seem quite as polished as others, but I enjoyed the general mood a lot. Perfect soundtrack as well.
rulez added on the 2018-09-11 12:09:22 by break break
Beautiful soundtrack. Beautiful visuals. Beautiful memories.
rulez added on the 2018-09-11 13:53:55 by Preacher Preacher
I enjoyed this!
rulez added on the 2018-09-11 14:00:35 by quisten quisten
piano tune reminds noby's whitespace
very good camera work
and it looks finished and I like it, one man's work - well done Gargaj ;)
rulez added on the 2018-09-11 18:01:32 by keen keen
One question came up while watching the prod:
Do the Roomba and the cat get along well?
added on the 2018-09-11 18:12:59 by wysiwtf wysiwtf
nice
rulez added on the 2018-09-11 18:44:57 by skarab skarab
Gyönyörű, lélegzetelállítóan gyönyörű darab. Kösz, hogy megcsináltad nekünk!
rulez added on the 2018-09-11 19:35:27 by sed sed
Nicely done Gargaj!
rulez added on the 2018-09-11 20:56:14 by Rob Rob
nice shots.
rulez added on the 2018-09-12 01:08:28 by kimi kardashian kimi kardashian
<3
rulez added on the 2018-09-12 04:18:30 by dq dq
very nice mood :D
rulez added on the 2018-09-12 06:32:50 by mop2 mop2
nice and boring
added on the 2018-09-12 11:06:02 by zeebr zeebr
Compo winner by a mile for me, great direction and design. More like this!
rulez added on the 2018-09-12 11:53:03 by psonice psonice
The winner for me
rulez added on the 2018-09-12 12:22:03 by lipek lipek
What okkie said.
rulez added on the 2018-09-12 13:56:05 by lug00ber lug00ber
If it s not moving it’s not 3 d
added on the 2018-09-12 16:23:31 by nytrik nytrik
dat robot vaccuum cleaner
rulez added on the 2018-09-12 16:45:05 by a-move a-move
Very atmospheric, great!
rulez added on the 2018-09-12 17:20:08 by tifeco tifeco
Not sure what to think of this one.
added on the 2018-09-12 23:23:06 by raer raer
I love it
rulez added on the 2018-09-13 11:32:54 by hollowone hollowone
Very mixed feelings. It's too slow, too short, lacks any punch or twist, looks seriously dated and being generally a snore fest. On the other hand thumbs for inspirations and execution. Strong piggy then.
added on the 2018-09-13 12:41:14 by AzzaroMWI AzzaroMWI
Cat and robot vacuum gets a free thumb.
rulez added on the 2018-09-13 14:02:39 by Charlie Charlie
Decent and slow (not speed). It ran well on my ancient 64-bit W7 HPE SP1 PC with its ATI Radeon 4870 video card (512 MB of VRAM). I used the demo's lowest resolution in windowed screen.
added on the 2018-09-15 05:34:47 by AntDude AntDude
For the atmosphere. and the cat! :)
rulez added on the 2018-09-15 07:32:20 by Starchaser Starchaser
Touching, thanks for the experience, Gargaj!
rulez added on the 2018-09-15 17:49:16 by chromag chromag
Nice
rulez added on the 2018-09-15 21:11:40 by Frequent Frequent
Azért ez elég fasza.
rulez added on the 2018-09-15 21:27:30 by reptile reptile
Dude, where are the cubes, the poorly done quaternion-based camera rotations and the cheap scene poetry?
rulez added on the 2018-09-16 09:37:08 by Zavie Zavie
Thank you
I think about this demo a lot
added on the 2018-09-18 14:22:48 by okkie okkie
:)

:~)

<3
rulezcdc added on the 2018-09-20 16:47:14 by neu / metoikos neu / metoikos
Great!
rulez added on the 2018-09-21 18:18:50 by Mystra Mystra
Oh man, this is a beautiful piece of demo art!
rulez added on the 2018-09-26 07:44:31 by deepr deepr
lovely
rulez added on the 2018-10-03 09:45:08 by sm sm
Taken me a while to figure out how I feel about this, because initially it reminded me of bad times in my life. The execution is superb, you clearly nailed the technical and artistic targets you set yourself, with exceptionally good rendering and flow to the demo. That's a serious achievement, and it's uncompromising, so I guess having negative feelings from the imagery is also partly the aim of what you were expressing. Loneliness, isolation, and regret are not things I normally want to feel while watching a demo, I have enough of those in the real world, but I can't fault the way in which you show them, nor you wanting to.

Also, there are a lot of little touches mixed into this, the duck I didn't notice until the fourth or fifth time I watched. The music supports the imagery, and at times being almost fading completely from attention, enforcing the idea of life passing by. It's subtle, thought provoking, and will probably stay with me for longer than any other demo I have watched in a decade.
rulez added on the 2018-10-03 15:21:27 by mantratronic mantratronic
Nice, I like ths kind of ambience.
rulez added on the 2018-10-08 00:45:59 by stijn stijn
I love this.
rulez added on the 2018-10-08 06:22:34 by NokoNoko NokoNoko
#esthetic
rulez added on the 2018-10-16 09:57:14 by HellMood HellMood
Great production !
rulez added on the 2018-10-28 16:11:17 by Black Dragon Black Dragon
Artistic Gargaj personal demo
rulez added on the 2018-11-07 18:35:22 by Queen_Luna Queen_Luna
Calm, but great :)
rulez added on the 2018-11-11 19:56:58 by Sapphire Sapphire
What should I say about this one. It's a gem! So calm, so many lovely colors, great scenes, such a strong atmosphere and masterful direction. Gargaj created one of the best demo experiences in 2018! Miles ahead compared to all other demos in that compo.
rulez added on the 2019-01-28 21:20:49 by Bobic Bobic
lovely. great colour grading as well. <3
rulezcdc added on the 2019-06-07 22:11:32 by v3nom v3nom
wait, I haven't commented on this so far? the previous comment was meant to be an addition to an existing comment.
athmosphere is everything in this demo - it transports a beautiful melancholic message, just with pictures and a piano. it feels extremely cinematic and reminds me about some sequences within bitter-sweet anime films, which often also transport such an athmosphere with similar frames and composition
added on the 2019-06-07 22:15:11 by v3nom v3nom
should've gotten a nomination for best direction at least
added on the 2019-06-07 22:15:40 by v3nom v3nom
Very good moody and calm
rulez added on the 2019-08-24 15:03:27 by Creonix Creonix
Bittersweet
rulez added on the 2019-09-15 15:29:36 by cce cce
rulez added on the 2019-10-30 11:45:12 by nagz nagz
Mood.
rulez added on the 2021-02-21 19:56:15 by Saga Musix Saga Musix
Gargaj exploring liminal spaces before the kids thought it was cool.
added on the 2023-05-31 11:39:40 by okkie okkie

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