Mr. McFarlane, relatively new to the gaming industry, was brought on to rethink the genre's visual look.
Hardcore is produced by Timur Bekmanbetov, whose own movies (Night Watch, Wanted) have a striking visual look but are similarly muddled.
Once that blueprint has been laid out, the Web site's graphic designer will concentrate on the visual look of the site.
This isn't a total redesign in the mode of iOS 7, but the visual look has been sharpened and refreshed for a cleaner OS.
If both of these potential issues can be overcome, your newsletter can keep the same visual look as you intended — and perhaps even print more reliably for readers.
"The Art of Production Design in Motion Pictures," an exhibition of drawings, models, film excerpts and photographs that will explore what goes into creating a film's overall visual look, starts Monday and runs through April 15.
The system's visual look is due to a combination of graphics technologies, including Quartz, Open GL and QuickTime, that can render crisp 2-D, 3-D and multimedia images.
"Sleeping Dogs Lie" doesn't pretend to be more than it is: a blunt, provocative comedy sketch whose visual look is almost as bare as that of an episode of the underappreciated Home Box Office series "Lucky Louie".
Working with the cinematographer Michael Simmonds, Mr. Siegel finds a suitably grubby visual look for the film, which employs handheld camerawork that alternately puts Paul at an analytical distance and draws him close.
Like his debut movie Amores Perros, this has a subdued and grainy, bleached-out visual look and, like that movie, it brings three lives and three stories arbitrarily together through the device of an automobile crash.
