He acknowledges that this isn’t strictly historical – in reality, everyone in the region probably dressed for war similarly – but the team needed strong, differing visual themes to make the two sides of the conflict appear distinct. “We began by establishing a visual language to differentiate our major cultural groups – for example, we decided the Danaans would use plate armour, blocky shield shapes, and warm colours, while the Trojans would prefer scale armour, biconcave shield shapes, and longer garments dyed in colder hues.” With a healthy library of reference materials to draw from, the team then got on with the designing part of the process. “So, for example, Agamemnon’s armour is adorned with snakes as a nod to Homer’s description, but as a whole the panoply is a Bronze Age design Homer might not have been familiar with as he lived generations later.” “I’d say we relied on archaeological findings to inform style and on literary sources such as the Iliad to inspire content,” Nick muses. We referenced central and western European – as well some Egyptian – equipment, as we figured similar designs might have ended up in the Mediterranean through trade or shared crafting techniques, and we needed all the variety we could get.” “We purchased books on Mycenaean warfare, the Bronze Age collapse, the Sea Peoples – everything. “We collected all kinds of reference on Bronze Age equipment used in conflicts between Aegean civilizations that might have inspired the Trojan War legend,” Nick explains. Digging up fashionįor TROY, the team had to research both archaeological and literary sources – but they approached each of these differently. Today we’re again chatting with Nikolay Toshev, a principal artist working on A Total War Saga: TROY, but instead of looking at weapons this time he’ll be telling us all about costumes, armour, and everything in between. Oracle, and specifically Larry, being a great business and an amazing executor now joins the league of visionaries, being the only enterprise to join this exclusive club of a numbered few.It simply wouldn’t do to have the heroes of Troy marching out onto the field improperly dressed – but luckily the Creative Assembly Sofia art team has them covered. It's not with the fortune 100s that you surpass biological evolution, it's with the hackers, startups, developers, and red-eyed bandits that code at 3:14 AM to build that one feature they’re super excited about. Oracle will have a steep climb to pull off their vision. 18c is not the only and definitely not the first. Companies should focus on DB design and analytics. And in the data space, the need for elasticity, automation of query patterns, provisioning, and all the other manual DB administration is enormous. Watching the keynote I agreed with most comments about the revolution we are going through with ML. By incorporating machine learning into their architecture they no longer “require human beings either to manage the database or tune the database.” It’s a vision that's light years ahead in terms of what the other vendors are even contemplating. Larry announced his vision to release the first “fully autonomous” database cloud service. The future is dominated by the visionaries. In the technology space current market domination and even current trends do not necessarily project anything about future adoption. That being said, technology-wise, Larry is a great visionary, much greater than some of Oracle’s top competitors which are showing greater dominance in the cloud space. Their business mainly relies on legacy customers not churning, not new ones growing and I don’t know anyone (it might just be my close circle) that is thinking of an Oracle first cloud strategy. Great show, great business, and great vision? Oracle continues to play catch up as a technological laggard when it comes to the cloud. When they announced their quarter highlights on September 14th, Larry reported revenue and earnings at or above the high end of its guidance for its fiscal first quarter, bolstered by a cloud business that continues to grow faster than those of its major competitors. I gotta hand it to Oracle and Larry Ellison, the guy knows how to put on a show! They also know how to do business.
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