CG artist, director and screewriter. Right now working as director of technology and innovation
@FAKE_PostVFX
and directing the Tiki animated feature film.
Beta testing Wonder Dynamics. This is a beta version and facial expressions are not all there yet. I have to admit it's quite impressive. More to come.
OMG!!!!! Nvidia is sending me an RTX 6000 ADA for the
#tikimovie
, the most powerful card available on the market!!! 48 GB of VRAM!!! I was expecting a 4090, nop, 6000 ADA!!!! Nvidia rocks!
#b3d
So, Autodesk, 1.35 billion in revenu… meanwhile the Blender Foundation lives on 153 000$ a month…. Of only there was a huge project where 3D artists would work together and all the profits will go to the Blender Foundation…
#b3d
#tikimovie
FINALLY! Took forever but got 30k subs now. As you can see I don't do this for the money... I do it for the best community in the world! The Blender community!
#b3d
Share the knowledge to the world!
Interesting shadow bokeh. Usually you get this FX from light passing the a wide aperture on a lens with shallow DOF, long lens. Here it is caused by the leaves simulating the aperture.
In Maya, if you extrude a 1 degree curve on another one on the X axis, you'ill get a deformed surface, but it works in Z. I reported that bug in 1997. 2023, 26 years later, still not fixed. And I submitted it many times over the years. They just don't care. Long live Blender
#b3d
Just had a wonderful 2h20 meeting with Chris, a Blender dev, about UVs. We both learned a lot from each other. There were features I didn't know Blender had (just hidden deep somewhere). It was awesome! Let's make
#b3d
the best 3d software in the universe, and beyond!
Whaaaaaa? A fully AI generated short film. No modeling, no rigging, no textures, no rendering… cost 195$… ok, facial animation not great but visually impressive. Is this the future? A one person studio?
Your
@wacom
is no longer supported. 3rd time for me. Planned obsolescence. Well guess what
#Wacom
, I'm not going to support you either. Let's go check the competitors. You're a horrible company.
Water test for
#tikimovie
using
#flipfluid
addon. 20 seconds for time to first pixel and 13 to render the image in HD 512 samples on an
#nvidia
4090. Insane!
#b3d
Blender 3.3
This image didn't take 9h55m, Not 9m55s. It took 9sec and 55/100th in HD!!! And that's the power of the
#nvidia
6000ADA. Thank you again and again Nvidia for sponsoring the
#tikimovie
project!
#b3d
This is the size difference between a 4090 and a 6000ada. It looks tiny! Yet it has 48GB of VRAM. Thank you
#NVIDIA
for the sponsorship on
#tikimovie
#b3d
I'M IN PANIC MODE!!!! Manatea's hair looks awesome in the viewport but when render image or a sequence I get this horrible result. If I can't fix this in the next few days my demo for BCON will look horrible. email me if want to help. @ gmail . com
#b3d
Hey hey! So I've been selected to give a conference at the Blender Conference in Amsterdam!
#bcon2022
#b3d
I'm gonna talk about... oh well, you'll see...
WOW!!!!!! WE JUST RECEIVED A 2000$ CONTRIBUTION FOR THE
#tikimovie
!!!!!! THIS IS AMAZING! AND NO, I DIDN'T HIT CAPS LOCK BY MISTAKE! I'M SCREAMING AT THE TOP OF MY LUNGS!!! AND I WILL ADD !s UNTIL I RUN OUT OF CHARACTERS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
#b3d
Ah ah! So if you are pissed that
#wacom
doesn't support the driver for your tablet anymore, go with Open Tablet Driver. It will also support pen pressure! Now both my Bamboo and Intos3 work perfectly! Long live open source! Works for Mac too but no pressure.
Well guess what! New sponsors on
#tikimovie
!
@Quadspinner
and their amazing
#Gaea
software. Not only are they providing licenses but they will actually make the island for us! Amazing! Look at what they do, it's mind blowing!
#b3d
I can't believe it! It took 28 seconds to render this in HD on an
#Nvidia
4090!!!! The actual rendering part is 6 seconds, the rest is preparing the data. Flabbergasted! You have any idea the amount or geo and texture and caches in there? Well, 16.5GB
#b3d
So here's the result. I made a UberKeyer node that allows me to pick a color, like the blue in the shirt, and randomly change the color so that it looks like I have many different persons in the scene. Right now there are only 2. I have total control on the color variations
#b3d
OMG! Just got off the plane. Back home. I’m flooded with messages about
#tikimovie
and
#kickstarter
and that’s direct result from YT superstar askNK who did a clip about us!!!! Check it out and please contribute!
#b3d
Is there a Blender UV master Jedi in the room? I'm redoing an old BB clip about UDIMs to make it up to date but I'm (still) going crazy dealing with UVs in
#b3d
. So I need guidance. Going insane here. I just don't get it.
Reasons why I like Blender N.36274628: We had an issue with alembics generated from out videogrammetry system. Once is a while, we would get a bad frame. So I sent a bug report and a file and guess what? They fixed it!
#b3d
U've probably missed it but the AskNK team did a very large contribution to our
#Kickstarter
plus the special clip they did just to promote
#tikimovie
! If you don't know them, the best place on YT to get the latest updates for Blender, addons and more
#b3d
So today I learned that objects that are changing shapes and have auto smooth ON will have rending issues with motion blur in Cycles. Just to let you know.
#b3d
OMG!!!! We got new toys at Real by FAKE.
#nvidia
4090. So I rendered the workshop CPU and GPU. I have a Ryzen 2950x 16 cores. 19:46 in CPU, 0:35 in GPU!!!!!
#b3d
BCON WAS AWESOME!!!! Thanks to the entire Blender team for the flawless conference! I had a blast and Amsterdam is wonderful!
@tonroosendaal
#b3d
#bcon2022
Just came back from Avatar. Yeah, I know, a bit late at the party. It was simply spectacular in IMAX 3D. How can they manage to render so much geometry and textures!?! WOW!
Recipe for low budget 3D feature film:
2 main characters
12 secondary characters
22 animals
18 sets
1 main environment
1 awesome community
90 wonderful staff
A lot of hard work
Dedication
Passion
Sponsors (at least 10)
1
#Kickstarter
Mix it all in Blender for two years
#b3d
So... last month I was impressed by AI still images... now I'm going to start looking for a job outside the film industry, that won't be replaced by AI or a robot. Like, I don't know... being a cactus or something...
Wow! Look at this! I woke up this morning and we had the 2600$ boost!!!! Wow ! Almost there folks! 4 days to go! Never give up, never surrender!
#tikimovie
#b3d
#kickstarter
We’re ALMOST at 50% and only ten days left. Come on community! Help us make the biggest Blender community project ever! 100% of the profits will go to the Blender Foundation! ❤️ are awesome! But 1, 5 or 10$ helps much more ;-)
#b3d
#kickstarter
#tikimovie
is looking for a hair specialist. Making straight hair is easy. Making natural long curly hair is another thing. Is it possible to achieve something that good in Blender? I couldn’t find anything convincing. You tell me
#b3d
3 of my ex-students had a
#kickstarter
, raised 50k$ in a few days for a short movie. Mine has raised 7k$ in 18 days for a FEATURE FILM, 90 mins! More than 15k ppl saw my tweets yet only 165 contributors. What am I doing wrong? What am I missing here?
#b3D
What a day! And another sponsor for
#tikimovie
#b3d
!
#AMD
#ryzen
#threadripper
will be shipping me 5975 32 cores 64 threads CPU! The VFX guys will be able to use remotely to so simulations. A collective machine for a collective movie!
The
#tikimovie
#b3d
financing campaign has started! We have 30 days to reach 35 000$! The Tiki team is working hard to make that Blender feature film but we need your help! Even for 1$.
Ray portal and thin film are cool in Blender 4.2 but personally I would rather have the devs work on mip mapping. Much more needed/useful. Cycles is probably the only professional renderer that doesn't have this feature. What do you think?
#b3d
Going from 3.0 to 3.3, the load time for are super heavy scenes with tons of library overrides went from 50 mins to 2-3
#realbyfake
#b3d
Great job devs!
Converting all animatic footage with
@WonderDynamics
for the
#tikimovie
test shot for
#b3d
BCON L.A. This tool is spectacular! Game changer and huge time saver! Literally takes 2 drag and drop and 5 mouse clicks to convert the footage. Love it!
Hi
@elonmusk
! Can you spare 0.00000000000000000000000000000003 second of your salary to support our collective animated feature film
#tikimovie
on
#Kickstarter
? Made in open source Blender software!
#b3d
Hey! At 5000$ you would become associate producer!
16 hours to go and that will be the end of the successful
#Tikimovie
#Kickstarter
campaign! Not too late to contribute! More money, the better it is.
#b3d
So there was one more sponsor I was hoping to get for the
#tikimovie
project
#b3d
and it's
@WonderDynamics
. It's a done deal! They just joined the project! So I can tell you that I got a 100% response from all the sponsors I contacted! None of them said no!!!
I have a geometry for the eyebrows. I would like it to follow the face changes from the shape keys. I've tried a shrink wrap modifier but but it doesn't work. Any suggestions?
#b3d
So the dev for the
#tikimovie
#b3d
is going very well, as you can see in my tweets. I'm now at a point where I would like to get a sponsorship from
#nvidia
. If one of you can get me in touch with someone that would be greatly appreciated. Tx!
Spoiler alert but no big deal. This character for
#tikimovie
#b3d
will be 2d animated in grease pencil à la old Disney in black and white. I'm looking for a very fluid animation. Goods examples are the Cuphead video game and this:
Whaaaaaaaa!?!? This morning we were at 91, now at 97%!!! Less than a thousand dollars to go!!!! (That doesn't mean stop contributing...) ;-) You think sad Teaveura had something to do with it?
#kickstarter
#b3d
#tikimovie
#tikimovie
recording session day 1 with Tahiti local star Edouard Malakai, for Manatea, and 3d artist Charlie who will also do French version of Damien. It was so cool! Major milestone for the project!
#b3D
And it continues!
#AMD
sponsorship for
#tikimovie
#b3d
is even better than I thought! They sent me a shipping confirmation email and they will add a PRO W7900 48GB graphic card!!! It's the latest greatest, so new it's not even available yet!!!
Hey
#b3d
community! I'm looking for a senior character animator for 1 shot for a Red Bull sponsorship for
#tikimovie
. Yep, I'm in talks with them and we need to present something in two weeks. Send demo reel tiki . movie . bb @
I love chatGPT for writing simple addons for Blender. Just made one that allows me to change the paths for textures and alembics files. No need to write the entire path, just the part you want to change. Faster than "Find missing files" which doesn't work for modifiers.
#b3d
#nvidia
6000ada power! With their sponsorship, I will be able to render most of the movie on my local machine! It's insane! Rendered in 8.44 seconds, 128 samples, denoise, all plants have a cache for animation that needs to be read per frame, motion blur.
#b3d
#tikimovie
And we got a new sponsor for
#tikimovie
!
@physialaddons
is providing us with their water and atmospheric addons. Check them out on the Blender market! Awesome stuff! I will make a demo in the next few days.
#b3d
This leaves me with mixed feelings. As director of innovation and technology, it’s WOW! As a guy working hard to make a feature film, it’s discouraging. We barely made 35k on Kickstarter. This was done with 195$ by one guy. There 100k worth of work in there! What is my future?
I’m thinking of doing a Blender Bob live steam on UVs and UDIMs. A first for me. But I will also talk about Maya, no way around it. Side by side comparison or Blender first and Maya after? You tell me. 4 times I’ve tried to make it the regular way but it’s driving me nuts.