TIL there's now a modern Minecraft world exporter that has a bunch of optimization settings, built-in LOD support, and exports USD files. It's by @stoutnl.bsky.social . This thing is super awesome! github.com/BramStoutPro...

I improved support for Connected Textures in MiEx, my Minecraft world exporter. Here are some screenshots using UltimaCraft as the resource pack and imported into Blender. The latest release is available here: github.com/BramStoutPro...

Spent the first half of my day setting up a project with an existing build system. Spent the second half of my day writing my own build system in Python...

Also, did you know that MiEx can calculate MC-style ambient occlusion and export it out as an extra vertex colour set? This is EEVEE with just ambient world lighting, no shadows or GI #minecraft

Just released a new experimental version of MiEx 2.0.0 that fixes a bunch of bugs. I've also been rewriting some of the mesh handling to allow "shader" support in MiEx where you can calculate custom vertex colours github.com/BramStoutPro... #minecraft

*slaps npole* this baby can terminate so many edge loops

Pizza?

I recently went to Scotland for a week and brought my camera with me I've put the rest of the pictures on my website: bramstout.nl/en/photograp... #photography #scotland

Been working on further customising Autodesk Maya for @elementanimation.bsky.social , now with a new launcher! (Play with sound)

Cat

I just released a new experimental build of MiEx with a rewritten entity system that also supports display entities, fixes for entity animation, and adds in support for item model definition files for use in item frames You can get the latest build here: github.com/BramStoutPro...

In 2024 @elementanimation.bsky.social switched to using @unrealengine.bsky.social for lighting and rendering. For this, I updated the Element Animation pipeline, which includes an interchange system to get the animations from Maya into Unreal. Here's a post about it: bramstout.nl/en/work/elem...

I got to work with @elementanimation.bsky.social to do the lighting for "A Wandering Trader Springs to Life!" for #MinecraftLIVE I also created a new effects system to handle all of the particles and rewrote the Unreal Engine pipeline I've written about it here: bramstout.nl/en/work/mine...

Check out our latest masterpiece!

That jaunty tune that the trader dances to is the brainchild of @mrweebl.bsky.social! Having him in our writing sessions has been both hilarious and an absolute honour. Can't wait to work on more things together!

I got to do the lighting for this animation that we did for #MinecraftLIVE ! It was a lot of fun doing the lighting and making a new effects system to handle all of those falling leave particles Link to animation in the livestream: youtube.com/live/jGNgh5z...

Don't dig straight down. #minecraft #minecraftart #art #3D #artsky

Don't dig straight down. #minecraft #minecraftart #art #3D #artsky

Some more progress on the paint stroke lookdev. Still need to align the strokes to the surface, work on stability, and add in brush stroke textures. It's entirely driven by a position pass, from which is spawns surface-stable points which then get rendered to the screen

I have released another experimental build of the upcoming version of MiEx, my Minecraft world exporter. It provides some general improvements and also support for Wavefront OBJ model files. github.com/BramStoutPro...

I reworked the Filmic Classic colour rendering for my colour management workflow LOOCS, and I wanted to share how I went about it.

I reworked the Filmic Classic colour rendering for my colour management workflow LOOCS, and I wanted to share how I went about it.

Just got a new camera (LUMIX S5IIX) and obviously some of the first pictures that I took is of my cat

Working on some lookdev stuff. Trying to spawn random points with roughly constant screen-space density that are stuck to 3D objects

I have released an experimental build of the upcoming version of MiEx, my Minecraft world exporter. It's a very big update with lots of new features, including support for Minecraft Bedrock Edition and entities (including animated entities) github.com/BramStoutPro...

An Element Animation Advertisement!? www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeGL...

I got to work together with the people from @elementanimation.bsky.social on this animated video for Minecraft! I did all of the lighting for it. The Pale Garden scene was my favourite scene to light. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoh0...

For the past two years, I've been working on my own colour management workflow (think ACES), called LOOCS. I wanted something with better handling of colours, but what really sets LOOCS apart from other CMWs is its philosophy around colour renderings. HQ Img: bramstout.nl/content/LOOC...

For the past two years, I've been working on my own colour management workflow (think ACES), called LOOCS. I wanted something with better handling of colours, but what really sets LOOCS apart from other CMWs is its philosophy around colour renderings. HQ Img: bramstout.nl/content/LOOC...

I had the pleasure of working with @elementanimation.bsky.social on Minecraft Live 2024: The Monster in the Woods. I did the lighting for it which was done in @unrealengine.bsky.social ! If you're interested in a peak behind the scenes, you can read more about it here: bramstout.nl/en/work/mine...

I had the pleasure of working with @elementanimation.bsky.social on Minecraft Live 2024: The Monster in the Woods. I did the lighting for it which was done in @unrealengine.bsky.social ! If you're interested in a peak behind the scenes, you can read more about it here: bramstout.nl/en/work/mine...