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Technical Artist - Pipeline TD, Shaders, Location Capture.
PHD on world-building and walking in ProcGen space.
Sr. Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan.
Previously: Adobe, Unity, Codemasters, Havok, Macromedia, Alchemy…
Ok. I love this question because it’s my job (mostly).
I use an R6 ii body with either the RF 35mm f1.4L, or the 20mm f1.4L. Both work for handheld photogrammetry as well.

My backup is my old camera - a 750D with a 22mm pancake lens. Can probably buy this setup for around £300 second hand.
January 21, 2026 at 7:57 PM
“There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile,
He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile;
He bought a crooked cat which caught a crooked mouse,
And they all lived together in a little crooked house.”

As soon as genAI enters the pipe, all down pipe outputs are tainted.
January 10, 2026 at 7:35 AM
Wait… we have been holding the mouse the wrong way all this time?
January 4, 2026 at 8:08 AM
Descent has seen a few releases since it came out and Heretic has had several.

Future Cop LAPD is great though and reasonably rare. I played it on a cover disc back then and got hold of a full copy a few years ago.
January 2, 2026 at 10:44 PM
Are you keeping it fully analog? AJH Synth are great analog modules for that classic synth sound of the 70s and 80s.
December 31, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Increasingly seeing game devs and academics state “I work with AI, but not that AI.”

PCG has always been in the realm of AI for funding and recruitment purposes, so I think maybe it refers to this branch of techart work.
December 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
LinkedIn is exactly this. The mutual commitment to providing arbitrary ability ratings is fascinating to me.

Also, it is a power dynamic dating site. Or at least some people in positions of power try to use it as such, as evidenced by events at GDC in recent years.
December 22, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Pseudo

x=1;
//“x is 1” or
//“x equals 1”

//=&=
//“is & equal”

//==
//“is equal”

x==1;
//“If x is equal to 1”
December 21, 2025 at 10:39 PM
PCG systems such as SpeedTree are broadly classified as AI. They are also generative and are often mistakenly lumped in with GenAI (like PCG speech in Arc Raiders).

However, PCGs are *known* whitebox systems. They are authored by and iterated on with direct, traceable, and accountable human input.
December 21, 2025 at 9:11 PM
The observer paradox.
December 6, 2025 at 6:31 PM