The other day where I live I noticed a building made of tabby concrete, a type of concrete with broken oyster shells inside. Its surface was breaking, revealing the oysters incorporated in the matrix of the concrete. I've recreated it in Substance Designer and rendered it with Eevee Next. More details: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/6Nm9NN
Webmentions: how I used 1990s technology to avoid writing JavaScript.
> When I started building websites over 20 years ago, I used Perl and CGI to run simple scripts, like a guestbook (I wrote my own). I prefer Ruby these days—and Perl has deprecated CGI—but could that approach still work? I thought it would be fun to try. It turns out it does work!
I wish #Lightwave3D and Andrew Bishop a fantastic 2024, I still have big book where I've learned very much on 3D, without that book and Lightwave I would never have been able to make some things, the logo below was made 23 years ago, was an other geological era of #CGI#VFX
This evening I was talking with @rm4 about #Tron Legacy, a #film which we highly suggest watching if you haven't already!
So, I thought about re-watching it but suddenly youtube showed me this #documentary about it, so I pressed play and enjoyed a nice and inspiring mid hour of #BehindTheScenes !
Take a watch if you know the film or if you are interested in the #MakingOf !
💡 #TIL that, aside from fancy #CGI and #3D workstations and servers, legendary manufacturer #SiliconGraphics also sold an #espressomaker for ca. 190 DM in Germany.
1984, January 24th., Steve Jobs presented the first Macintosh Computer. We are glad to share our MAC POP Art, in tribute, in this Fediverse, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of that milestone with You, today.
"Old-school practical effects date back to the silent era and are created with artistry and care. Is the novelty of #CGI green-screen action wearing off in favour of craft models?" #VFX
Them: "The CGI in The Flash (2023) is some of the worst CGI I've ever seen put to film."
Me: "Ugh. They always say that shit. People always have to find something to complain about, and it's never as bad as they say."
watches The Flash in HD
Me: "Oh. Oh my gods. Why do the babies look like dolls that have been left out in the sun to melt? And that dog! What's wrong with its FACE!? It looks like Milo from The Mask, while he was wearing the mask! Why does Batman look like he's wearing Jay Leno's chin with black marker used to mark his beard stubble? Holy fucking shit."
Just found out that this spoopy image is from FromSoftware’s first game, King’s Field (1994). So a distant precursor to Elden Ring. Mind-boggling! #cgi
Just watched the Netflix adaptation of 3 Body Problem. Decent attempt, although it felt like they went through the game and revealed the “three-body” mystery a little fast (or did I just binge too fast? 🤔).
I really wish SF shows would get the incredibly easy basics right, though.
In the first episode, two people are looking at the stars from a location somewhere in England (University of Oxford campus?). Something very strange happens with the stars, but before that happens, something even stranger is going on. The stars in the sky depicted show the entire constellation of Scorpius, which is not possible in the British Isles. If you were at the southernmost tip of England, the circled star would just peek above the southern horizon. To see the stars as depicted, you would have to be much farther south (say, at the latitude of a CGI firm in Los Angeles? 😉).
I imagine most people wouldn't notice, but if you are at all familiar with the sky, these things jump out at you. It would be like the prop people not knowing who to put on the dollar bill and just going with Mr. Bean.