>>23139296It makes me mad because it isn't using a proper logarithmic glow and is just a "blue and set blend mode to add" method which is the cheapest and least realistic way to do glows. Actual glows have two distinct types of halation, a small inner glow and a much more diffused large glow. What shoost does is essentially a very cheap and overdone looking diffusion, it's not glow it's replicating it's replicating physical diffusion like a Black Promist 1/2 filter or a Cinebloom 20%, but even then it's completely wrong. Cause it's taking a low resolution output of the underlayer to blur, like super low res, like probably 20 pixels wide. You can see the luma averaging effect since the bloom goes in and out based on how close a darker color is to the brightest part of the image, it ruins the consistency. The best diffusion filter I'm aware of is Video Villiage Scatter if you want to see how a proper logarithmic system looks. Deepglow is another good one. All I can see when they do these fucking overly bloomed out shoost bits is a lack of technical prowess. Shoost also uses such a simple additive algorithm that it actually fades out true black values which proper diffusion will almost never do. They need a corrective layer of color grading on top of shoost to get the contrast back so they stop looking like overly composited shitty youtube short films by teenagers who just figured out what the M31 lut is.
