HyperSpin Creative Direction

[Avar]

I'm in awe at the sheer amount of hard work and talent that gets pumped into the community every day. This thread will serve as a sort of townhall for the artistic community where I'll strive to provide as much creative direction as possible with what information we're allowed to share at any given time. Questions are welcome but please note that information being provided here is effectively pretty much everything I can be divulge on a given day. I'll do my best to always give clear direction to empower creative efforts to align with future capabilities with laser precision.

In general, all of the creative assets that have ever been created will persist, especially in HyperSpin 1.4. One of the goals of my current audit is to ensure HS1.4 is 100% 16:9 capable. This doesn't mean I'll have every single game theme converted but any user will be able to grab a full 16:9 compatible set off HBL without having to dick around with resizing and there will be sufficient high quality 16:9 theme assets to make a damned respectable, HD widescreen setup of quality comparable to that of our classic 4:3 counterparts. More on themes later.

First, we'll start with something that's been hinted at which everyone's already inferred/expected: artwork resolution. HyperSpin has been around forever and it was originally intended to be exclusive to cab users, hence the 4:3 aspect ratio. Times have changed and while we've managed to push it to the point we can get a really clean and sexy looking high def image in HD thanks to SWF scripts, that isn't the future.

Below you'll see a downsized demonstration of how current artwork assets fair in 1080p, 4K, and 8K. If you'd like to see the raw 22mb 8K image you can check it out here.

As we all know, the effectiveness of current artwork resolutions maxes out at 1080p. Much larger than that and they'll appear ridiculously small without heavy upscaling, which pukes their image quality dramatically. We can see that JSinn's new discs and diskmach's new wheels, for example, are basically UHD 4K/8K ready. Then we have the Broken Sword 2.5 logo KlopjerO just cut out a few hours ago, which is basically full eternity proofed sexgasm and could probably be used as an actual wall poster. Basically there's no such thing as art that's too big or of too high a resolution, since it can always be downscaled.

 

 

Now this definitely raises questions as to themes and how they'll scale. My advice at this time is make sure any new theme's individual artwork elements work in UHD, 4K at a minimum and the higher the better.

 

Finally I want to delve into artist recognition. Us creative types are the backbone of HyperSpin so @fr0stbyt3 and I are going to work hard to create a system that ties you, as an artist, more intrinsically to your creations. We want to facilitate unavoidable exposure and recognition not just amongst us community hardcores but to any eyes that download your work, forever. Not only that but Fr0stbyt3's working out a system where we can allow users to more easily access you and your creations in their entirety.

I've long held that HS artists are amongst the best in the world at what they do, even compared to those in the gaming industry, so one of my goals is to make the world and the industry realize that and take notice  beyond the realm of frontends and emulation. For now, all this means is please keep track of work you're especially proud of and consider keeping a portfolio. I'm going to to continue to use HS's social media to force the world to see how awesome the artists here are. My channel's still small but I'm going to keep working and I intend to advocate for everyone using it as well.

Long story short. We're going to work for their to be clearer community direction and communication of relevant information in a timely fashion. This should help clarify how we can all keep doing what we love without fear of it being for naught. I very strongly feel that this is the greatest community in the universe and I want us to show the world just that. The teamwork on display here has, historically been amazing and we're going to take that to the next level with things to come.

Stay hyped friends!

 

[thatman84]

You definately are the Hype ?

Cheers to the future

[Kondorito]

Awesome post Avar. You rock!

[fr0stbyt3]

54 minutes ago, Avar said:

Not only that but Fr0stbyt3's working out a system where we can allow users to more easily access you and your creations in their entirety.

 

My plan is to deliver an experience where it's not only simple to share, but browse all of the amazing work all of you have. No more uploading it to 3 places to get exposure.

[thatman84]

Dont forget HBL isn't free so people will still need to post it for accesibility

[fr0stbyt3]

2 minutes ago, thatman84 said:

Dont forget HBL isn't free so people will still need to post it for accesibility

For now.

[Avar]

Thanks guys. Just had a thought that we should tag all of the media creators in here. Historically we've kinda been like herding cats as far as keeping track of everyone so I'd like to make this a central art community hub.

@Kondorito @KlopjerO @griffin518 @Accorsi @ci2own @Aorin @husko @Mykillvee @diskmach @VoidWalker @Roadrunner @JSinn @Krakerman@dougan78 @THK @gigapig @SubZero @Yeuxkes @JayC @thatpurplestuff @SupraKarma @dionymnia @Suhrvivor @xALPHAxOMEGAx @agent47 @tonesmalone 

That's all off the top of my head rq as I multitask so if I missed your name please don't be insulted!!!

Everyone please tag anyone else in the community who benefits from the knowledge and communication this thread offers. Cheers!

[Avar]

@fire10 @Black Hazor

[thatman84]

@fire10

@avar you broke my @ symbol by using the sites daily allowance in one post.?

[Avar]

@thatman84 thanks for the heads up @_@ That's weird. I guess mod/admin can override.

[thatman84]

11 minutes ago, fr0stbyt3 said:

For now.

Your killing me man!!! Im a control freak and not knowing eats me up ??

[fr0stbyt3]

Just now, thatman84 said:

Your killing me man!!! Im a control freak and not knowing eats me up ??

Think of it like this. HBL will take over hypersync, hyperlist, and hyperhq. So we have to do something, right? 

But now we're off topic. 4K ALL THE THINGS!!!!!

[thatman84]

Now i have an excuse to get a 4K TV, and no cab planned till end of the year ish so fingers crossed

[Mykillvee]

@AvarThank you so much for the recognition!  By the way, how do i gain the title of "media creator" in my profile?   I never really understood how that worked.  Lol

[Avar]

6 minutes ago, thatman84 said:

Now i have an excuse to get a 4K TV, and no cab planned till end of the year ish so fingers crossed

Trying to get you and a few other people the tag. I can toggle it in the admin menu but doesn't seem to take when I save it. @gigapig might know more. @griffin518 needs one too and prolly a few others.

[fr0stbyt3]

5 minutes ago, Mykillvee said:

@AvarThank you so much for the recognition!  By the way, how do i gain the title of "media creator" in my profile?   I never really understood how that worked.  Lol

Done

[Mykillvee]

Thank you @fr0stbyt3!  Much appreciated

[Kondorito]

You deserve it @Mykillvee 

Beautiful work on all those themes

 

[Kondorito]

42 minutes ago, fr0stbyt3 said:

So we have to do something, right? 

Oh snap...  

Soon...

[Mykillvee]

Thanks, @Kondorito ...I enjoy making and sharing them!   It's one of my favorite hobbies now.  I've learned a lot since that very first theme long ago....

[JSinn]

This is boss-awesome!
I haven't really seen my GameCube discs in action yet, so it'd
be cool to see screenshots of people's GC set-up.

[Avar]

 

1 hour ago, JSinn said:

This is boss-awesome!
I haven't really seen my GameCube discs in action yet, so it'd
be cool to see screenshots of people's GC set-up.

 

Will be pretty exciting to use hi res stuff like yours to its full potential! In UHD it's like holding the real thing in your hand. I kinda wanna try it in VR haha

[griffin518]

Thank you @fr0stbyt3 and @Avar! I'm honored to be a part of this terrific community!

[Avar]

Oh, one thing I forgot to mention is that the new system is going to let us all push artwork updates a lot easier and without having to hope people actually notice and re-download the work. People'll always have the best version.

[Suhrvivor]

Great news! Seems promising.

I'll be watching closely how all this unfolds.