Pratica di Shadowing: How video game rocks get made - Impara a parlare inglese con i video
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This is a rock.
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But this man is not a geologist.
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My name's Galen.
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I work as a producer and an evangelist here for Quixel at Epic Games.
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Video game developer Epic Games makes games like Fortnite, but they're as well known for Unreal Engine, the ever-evolving game engine for a ton of video games
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and other industries that use 3D from Hollywood movies to demos for architecture.
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That's part of why Epic Games Studio Quixel sends people here.
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Because getting high resolution scans of rocks like these represents an evolution in making video games and all three-dimensional art.
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Where actually were you when you were doing these scans?
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The area specifically that we spent the most time in is an area called Hurra Pass.
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And Hurra Pass takes about 90 minutes to get to at least where we were scanning to in an off-road capacity.
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Pavement stops, there's sheer drop-offs, it's really sketchy, for lack of a better way to put it.
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And since we're so far off the grid and we didn't bring a generator or anything like that, we would just scan and tell the batteries we go completely dead.
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Galen is out there searching for rocks that might look good for Epic's tech demo, set on a moody, slightly alien landscape.
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In this clip, Galen is taking high-resolution pictures of this rock from a bunch of different angles.
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The tent keeps light even, no hard shadows.
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On the back, he's got a battery pack to keep going longer.
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And on the ground, there's a scale marker so they'll know how big the boulder is.
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These pictures are pulled into software, then they're stitched together into a 3D model.
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The software figures out what a complete rock looks like from the common points in the picture.
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All this makes up a scanned asset.
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The Quixel team did a similar process for big structures by capturing via drone, and for textures by photographing a rock wall and capturing the canyon floor.
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Making them can be pretty hard work.
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You walk into an area and you think, oh, this is awesome.
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And then you start breaking it down, thinking about what's actually going to be useful.
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And it becomes less awesome very quickly.
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Mostly just because of the time, you know, the time constraints.
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It's like, oh, well, I could shoot that, but I mean, is it the best use of the few hours we have left today, you know?
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But shifting that time to Quixel and other scanners and then distributing their work saves time for individual video game designers.
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And the treacherous highlights of the canyons of Utah are available for download and insertion into your own game.
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In the past, artists had to manually make these assets and textures, sometimes pixel by pixel.
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These days, you might sculpt your own assets using special software.
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Sometimes it works better than others.
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I guess it's a face?
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Downloading textures and models from a cloud marketplace cuts that out of the workflow.
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They aren't just photos.
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For example, they include additional images, like this normal map, which uses color to tell the program how high or low certain parts of an image should be.
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And you can even remix and customize assets once you have them.
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The example that I always use whenever I'm describing the library and the things that we do is, how many times do you as an artist need to remake that brick wall?
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There are a lot of ways to get pretty good 3D stuff.
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Part of what's exciting about all this technology is
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that pretty much anyone can make a high quality 3D scan and get assets using stuff as simple as their phone.
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You can use professional stuff like reality capture or honestly your own phone might get you 70% of the way there.
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Do I look cool right now?
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I feel so cool.
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But for a rich environment, it's easier to just download something.
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Polyhaven provides a lot of textures and models that work across many programs for free.
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Quixel offers high-quality assets free to use in Unreal and for a fee in other programs.
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And while I'm able to scan a local rock,
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developers can't always go to Utah or another one of Quixel's biomes which range from rainforests to tundras.
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Suddenly, everyone can make their game an alien planet without having to draw it.
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Even though I'm not in the desert, it is super hot right now, and sometimes developers just want to sit at their desk.
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Or make guys like Galen be the ones who have to trek out and eat lunch in the desert.
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Quick Sam, you know what I mean?
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Double cheese.
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For Epic, these scans and textures were collected in part for that technology demo of the company's graphics supercharged Unreal Engine 5.
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It's a flywheel for Epic Games and Quixel, where scans make Unreal Engine better, and better Unreal Engine means more Unreal Engine games,
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which means more people want to add scans that work with Unreal Engine.
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That also means it is eminently practical to send a crew of non-geologists deep into the desert to photograph rocks.
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Thank you.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione di livello B2 si basa sul video “How video game rocks get made”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: scan, rock, Unreal, engine, Quixel. Questo video contiene 60 frasi e 870 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 6:03. Chi parla mantiene un ritmo costante di circa 144 parole al minuto, comodo per lo shadowing. Solo il 80% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è impegnativo.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
Le 15 parole più avanzate del video, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| scan verbo | /skæn/ | scrutare |
| texture sostantivo | /ˈtɛkst͡ʃə(ɹ)/ | texture |
| demo sostantivo | /ˈdɛm.oʊ/ | demo |
| developer sostantivo | /dɪˈvɛləpɚ/ | sviluppatore, sviluppatrice |
| geologist sostantivo | /d͡ʒiˈɑːlədʒɪst/ | geologo, geologa |
| pixel sostantivo | /ˈpɪk.səl/ | pixel |
| canyon sostantivo | /ˈkænjən/ | gola |
| constraint sostantivo | /kənˈstɹeɪnt/ | vincolo, costrizione |
| customize verbo | /ˈkʌs.tə.maɪ̯z/ | customizzare, personalizzare |
| excite verbo | /ɪkˈsaɪt/ | stimolare, eccitare |
| flywheel sostantivo | volano | |
| insertion sostantivo | /ɪnˈsɝʃən/ | inserzione |
| rainforest sostantivo | /ˈɹeɪn.fɔɹ.ɪst/ | foresta pluviale |
| sketchy aggettivo | /ˈskɛt͡ʃi/ | abbozzato, delineato |
| supercharge verbo | sovralimentare |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| figure out verbo | scoprire, rendersi conto | |
| make up verbo | /ˌmeɪk ˈʌp/ | comporsi |
Frasi da ripetere
Frasi brevi e complete del video che puoi riutilizzare nella conversazione di tutti i giorni:
- Where actually were you when you were doing these scans?
- I guess it's a face?
- Do I look cool right now?
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 10 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come I'm, they're, aren't. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: insertion /ɪnˈsɝʃən/, sheer /ʃɪɚ/, dimensional /daɪˈmɛn.ʃə.nəl/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: developer /dɪˈvɛləpɚ/, geologist /d͡ʒiˈɑːlədʒɪst/, eminently /ˈɛmɪnəntli/, evangelist /ɪˈvænd͡ʒəlɪst/, manually /ˈmænj(u)əliː/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: geologist /d͡ʒiˈɑːlədʒɪst/, constraint /kənˈstɹeɪnt/, customize /ˈkʌs.tə.maɪ̯z/, evangelist /ɪˈvænd͡ʒəlɪst/, excite /ɪkˈsaɪt/
- /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: scan /skæn/, canyon /ˈkænjən/, evangelist /ɪˈvænd͡ʒəlɪst/, scanner /ˈskænə/, manually /ˈmænj(u)əliː/
Come esercitarsi con questo video
- Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
- Fai shadowing frase per frase a velocità normale, ripetendo ognuna finché il tuo ritmo coincide con quello di chi parla.
- Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come scan, texture, demo.
Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?
Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.