Thursday, December 15, 2016

Professional Project Review: "Adam" Unity Tech Demo


This video here is a demo for the unity engine, titled "Adam" for pretentious biblical allusion points. Does it look cool? That's because it is.

"Adam" is about a robot escaping from just kinda leaving robot prison and meeting those two whacky wobblers in that thumbnail to the left. It's just supposed to be a tech demo, after all. however, while most tech demoes, trailers, movies, et cetera are made and rendered on big, heavyweight render farms, this one can be rendered flawlessly in real time by a 500$ (at the time of writing,) graphics card in 1440p, which is double the resolution of a standard monitor or (at the time) television.
but the technical feats aren't the only redeeming feature of this piece, nosiree bob.  The art direction is fantastic (I'll admit I'm an absolute sucker for sci-fi).
The team who made Adam did very well on the character designs and even the story to an extent, since they had to tell it in five minutes. The characters are detailed and even though many of them are identical at base, the slight variations among the robots and even the soldiers had a bit of individual personality.
However, they definitely could've improved the project by having a definite end to the story- it kind of just ends with our guy, Adam, standing out in front of the two differently skinned machines.
The animation is pretty sound. For example, when the robots are being shot at, there's some squash and stretch, as for a very short time Adam reels back in shock and falls over.
In conclusion, Adam is a competently done, good looking technical demo for the Unity engine.

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