{"id":888,"date":"2026-07-02T09:24:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T08:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/isjtar.org\/?p=888"},"modified":"2026-07-02T10:00:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T09:00:36","slug":"o2m-colours-of-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/isjtar.org\/index.php\/2026\/07\/02\/o2m-colours-of-the-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"O2M Colours of the Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A puppy dies every time someone uses the default Unreal Engine sky system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had been watching a lot of films with great colour work and wanted to end up somewhere between the ritualistic gravitas of Jodorowsky\u2019s The Holy Mountain<\/em> and the candy-coloured backgrounds of Shintaro Kago. I love how Kago\u2019s bright palettes so nimbly offset the horror of his drawings, creating an uncanny, surreal atmosphere. Those two references did the job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For One To(o) Many<\/em>, I wanted the experiments to take place in a very simple but evocative space: a colourful, open-air laboratory at the end of the world, with the sky slightly on fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The colours of the sky are generated by a shader – a set of instructions executed by the graphics card. It is an entirely synthetic expression: essentially, a mathematical formula painting colours onto a sphere.
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