watching this video from notJustBikes, and kinda envious of the windowed walls of the rolling stock meanwhile in 🇸🇬 they're erecting opaque privacy and sound dampening walls along the above-ground segments of the MRT it does make living near railways quieter, but it also reinforces the box-in...

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

I’m reworking my Mirror’s Edge-inspired scene. I’ve switched to UE5.7 (right). The lighting and reflections feel more accurate, and the ambient occlusion is improved overall. I’ve also reduced the strong blue fog and shifted the mood toward a warmer palette.

Jaegon Allison's 2KXO eye material (not the eye mesh) driven by controls in Maya. Super impressive stuff. www.artstation.com/artwork/nJmaYE

... yeah, having the DCC echo every command from a non-commandline action from the user would be neat from the perspective of learning to script for said DCC at least maya does this right (well, MEL, but the commands are almost similar to the python ones)

took a while, but got the material functions non-raster bezier curves working am currently leaning towards using quadratic splines more often, but this would need a full art test to begin with cat by @freya.bsky.social cubic bezier approximation function by weasel on shadertoy #UE5

Quand je me sens lasse et mélancolique, je dois me poser la question: ça fait combien de temps que j'ai dessiné Edwin? Ou que j'ai sorti ma plume? Parce que ce sont les meilleurs anti-dépresseurs que je connaisse.

today i learned: in GLSL the arctangent function is overloaded. so for HLSL there's atan(b) and atan(x,y), and in GLSL it's both atan(b) and atan(x,y) *muffled pillow scream*

please actually ask the users of #animate / #flash on the creature comforts of the program that may be missing from other alternatives before throwing a blanket list upon them alternatives are good; **ignoring needs are bad**

i love how lucky and clover looks almost exactly how they're drawn in concepts, kinda wish i could get to that level

more #krita testing, musings and attribution in alt text

this meddling is why we need more web-rings wherever we are in the medium of the platform also: remember when youtube channel pages used to have a [channels] tab, for linking to second channels or *specifically* other channels that they like?

oooh! en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%F0%B2%...

toying with materials as a break simple SDF of a quadratic curve spanned over the UV square on a test model. left is max()'d with a pixel depth function (to hide moire), right is raw would make a neat quick-and-dirty fabric-iiish row

in my search for a canvas timelapse workflow i've downloaded #krita, and while it's mostly serviceable there'r gaps that wouldn't let me definitely make the switch completely from PS i mean it's going to be the sidecar program for non-technical drawing so i'm not ruling it out completely, but

cryptic mathsposting, in the middle of the usual SDF bezier implementation this time it's cubic

It’s a union marmot

this one is called goose horse

year of the gorse

had a quick chat with someone on figuring how to deal with multiple masks for a texture, and they had a black-object-white-keepout diagram to explain the question was reminded of how i struggled with learning masks when i was starting out and couldn't figure out back then i think this might be why

reposting for neat-looking tow truck 🤔

recently migrated to UE5.7, and oh neat this convert node is much neater and clearer than multiple append/make#Float/break#Float/mask nodes. when did this happen? (context: #UE5 material blueprint editor)

Jingle bells 🦌🎶 Clothless version on patreon✨

slowly working on an in-material SDF-based spline texture (doing proofs of concepts with quadratic beziers first), just got to a milestone where i can fill in a segment just from sign maths code guidance from reading Inigo Quilez's SDF blog and those inspired by their work on shadertoy #UE5 #SDF

a well made argument *runs away from stage*

*scrolls into view* oh right they're still at st james power station huh. ... wasn't the place previously a ministry of sound nightclub? i forget what happened to them ... oh. completely memory-holed their exit 😓 ... why did i type this post again?

it's the week. it's that time of the year however it arrived, have it as well as you can anyway here's #silksong fanart

me: oh my god tkinter in maya needs troubleshooting, and there's a lot of window management (PySide2/Qt) i have to traverse just to access the OS clipboard-- maya: uhh i'm already managing it, you can do it through me me: maya: do you want a break? me: yes please 😭

me: hey how can i quickly bring in a shape from illustrator to maya as a curve? i know there's a save as legacy and importing it, but surely there's a simpler pipe for that? maya: you can import SVGs from the clipboard! me: ... you gave me poly meshes maya: shrug, they contain edges me: 🤦‍♀️

okay ignore that post entirely: turns out i was chasing an eldrich horror when the actual problem was that the sign result wasn't normalised and i multiplied it to the distance field effectively crayoning over the proper result i am not smart 😭

okay ignore the third picture, i didn't catch that the curve no longer works there 🤦‍♀️

cursed question for #UE5(? or is this a HLSL thing? or a general shader thing?): for whole-number exponents: why is A*A different from power(A,2.0)? the oddest thing is that the power function is the one returning desired results, and #shadertoy doesn't seem to have this problem (check alt text)

been watching news on electronics recently the next (at least) 5 years would be a very bad time to need to replace a part, let alone a new PC/workstation entirely i just want to work

oh no. i just learnt that it *is* possible to make a custom manipulator in maya with the python API and there might be bugs in there

yaaaaaaaaaaayyyy that's taking a tiny weight off the many many many many many many many many many many many "i want to scale sideways from where i'm looking at right now" actions when modelling character stuff now note: this is bound to a shelf button, not a live manipulator (i wish it was one)

okay, after self-inflicted vector maths hell, i'm done with a one-function tool to align the scale manipulator to a specified camera (read: default persp camera) summary in README; visual demo when i have time to record my screen later github.com/STUAAAAAAAAA...

learning the ladder to get the position of the manipulator: me: maya, currentCtx()? maya: oh "scaleSuperContext" me: okay finally pass that to manipScaleContext() maya: says it doesn't recognise it me: me: then why give it to me? maya: shrug

sigh. you know what, i could use a distraction *tosses a cosy game into steam cart* *goes to checkout* ... sigh.

fun fact: this overwrites and makes an otherwise appropriately sized .ma file that has nothing but NULs in it (basically a zero-fill file) this is why autosaves exist on maya but **for some reason isn't telegraphed to beginner users** (although going off another repost to this.....)

maya documentation: wtf is a UnlockNormals() in maya: oh yeah use UnlockNormals() when help( cmds.UnlockNormals() ) : shrug i found this in my back pocket

couldn't subdivide the code into alt text in a meaningful way (alas, 2000 char limit), so here's a blogpost instead stuaaaaaaaaaart.github.io/posts/2025/N... that's been step one in this side quest for quads....

so i've been cracking my head figuring out the indexing system of a mesh vertexFace component in maya is about. it's two indices per vF (it's the normal vector of that vertex strictly on a face) and i thought they were two vertices TIL it's literally .vtxFace[VERTEX # ][FACE # ] i am not smart

on my way to tackle a UV automation thing for the way i model (i don't wish this on anyone else 😓) and it starts with this toy script lol (copyable code in alt text)

i like adam's take on calling creative projects "a point of view", it really describes the purpose of doing stuff, even if there is one still being sought after (rather than one already made up in mind)

how??? 😰 having the root of the chain move like the tail of the chain without slipping or jittering is pretty amazing double-ended spline IK? tail half normal root half reverse? goodness the rope rig for this must be extremely clever

messing with the look (still working on it, not sure if i'm settling on this complexion)

Its today

I am mad. Even if they didn't listen to the feedback, please keep posting your stuff here. You art is powerful and inspires many. It might never please everybody, even so, don't be stopped, don't be censored. Post and post and post, I want to see all creativity here. All of it. SFW. NSFW.