Here's their release of how they made it as well. Super interesting read. It's shaders all the way down.
http://www.iquilezles.org/www/material/function2009/function...
http://www.iquilezles.org/www/material/function2009/function...
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4msf41/elevate...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11837687
(I think there are others, but I can't find them now.)
Maybe it was some bot, but that's an odd bot.
It could be a bot tactic to build accounts with karma that can later be used for astroturfing, using proven comments from elsewhere. Maybe governments and organized astroturfers have automated that sort of thing more than we think.
Watchful users can help out with this a lot. If you or anyone notice comments being cross-posted in the future, please alert us at hn@ycombinator.com.
> With cinematic look, like taken with a real camera. We had some dissagreements here
> • I absolutelly wanted to avoid the CG look - the danish part of the team wanted something sharp and shinny
> • I wanted a hand-held TV camera - they wanted a sts04 like smooth lovely cameras
> • I wanted a realistic scenery - they wanted more action in the scene..
And exploiting impressionism as a compression technique:
> The idea is NOT to render perfect snow, but to draw something that evoques snow, and let the viewer’s brain to trick the viewer.