Here we go! After 2 years of doodling, my second sketchbook will be released in a little less than 2 weeks. 64 pages, softcover, sold worldwide through amazon, 123 Robot heads in traditional pen and ink. #robot #bot #mech #mecha #droid #doodle #illustration #sketch #scifi

I just posted part two of my career retrospective during which time I work at four different companies, blog, and then retire: randomascii.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/r...

A retrospective of my tech career - a work-focused autobiography, basically - feels a bit vain, but I'm hopeful that it is interesting or useful enough to justify that. If nothing else writing it up forced me to try to remember what actually happened. randomascii.wordpress.com/2025/10/22/r...

🚨 "The Making of Double Fine's Keeper" is now available! 🚨 Many of you have been asking for this one; we're happy to say the cameras continued to roll here at the studio during Keeper's development. Come see how this very special game came to be, from the team themselves! 😊 youtu.be/1OOfRTfMnx0

I’ve talked about how Keeper’s morphs use distance fields (DFs) as their surface representation. But if there are no polys, how do we render them? A DF gives the distance to the nearest surface at any point, which we can exploit for rendering by marching along the view ray until we hit the surface.

Specs of the Steam Machine & Steam Frame are underwhelming as fuck. Steam Machine is definitely aimed at non enthusiast given its low specs & Frame is worst than a Quest (it doesn't support pass-through Wtf ?) #valve

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I wrote a bunch of compute shader code to hook into Lumen which evaluates mathematical light shapes. On the CPU side we are using perceptual filtering to pick the most important lights. It was a lot of fun! :) bsky.app/profile/leep...

I did a lot of lighting on Keeper and it was a joy to have a fully dynamic lighting system, which made shifts in areas like this easy to do. We also had custom Lumen-based lights that @p1xelcoder.bsky.social put together that helped us hit the painterly/stage lighting look we were after.

#SIGGRAPH2025 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course talk recording of "Strand-Based Hair And Fur Rendering In Indiana Jones and The Great Circle" by Sergei Kulikov from MachineGames is now online: youtu.be/jSE1XXBEK-w

SIGGRAPH 2025 Advances: STOCHASTIC TILE-BASED LIGHTING IN HYPEHYPE advances.realtimerendering.com/s2025/conten... youtu.be/8O44TBN4sQc?...

A LOT of industry folks need to take "I think there's a very high possibility that this is all a bunch of horseshit" to HEART.

GN's upcoming investigation on Nvidia & Jensen's corruption is going to be a banger 👀 💥 youtu.be/qG4ektofzkI?...

⚙️ Patch 1.0.5.0 for The Outer Worlds 2 is now available to all players. Please update your game when you see that this update is available to receive the following fixes and changes. outerworlds2.obsidian.net/news/the-out...

You can see this nicely in this closeup. Notice how the number and orientation of the edges changes on the left side as both meshes are merged.

I wanted to clarify what I mean by fixed vs. dynamic topology. In game graphics meshes can normally be not merged smoothly because the edges and connectivity is static and holes can't be closed or created. Dynamic topology recomputes the connectivity when needed.

Normal polygonal meshes have a fixed topology. Roughly speaking this means the number of holes in an object can't change. Also the (explicit) surface of two meshes can't be blended smoothly into one. This is no problem for distance field morphs with implicit surfaces.

Here's a double shot of written lessons, the first is using everyday objects to design robots www.neilblevins.com/art_lessons/... the second goes over a ton of camera related terms like aperture, ISO, shutter speed, etc and how they relate to each other www.neilblevins.com/art_lessons/... #arttip

See what our research teams have been up to with our latest papers: 📝 Joint Denoising and Upscaling via Multi-branch Network. 📝 Cardioid Caustics Generation with Diffusion Models. 📝 Geometric Integration for Neural Control Variates. 📥 View here: gpuopen.com/learn/public...

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I quite liked Guillermo's Frankenstein 👌🏼

Bonus post to end the week: If you are a graphics programmer do yourself a favor and get a MIDI board. It makes the work way more tactile and fun. Full props to Matt and @aaronmjacobs.com for getting me on the MIDI train. :)

Years of work and collab with an incredible team at #BBCStudios #AppleTV @framestore.bsky.social ... involving so many camera operators, writers, producers, effects people, artists and others, #PrehistoricPlanetaIceAge is out on #AppleTV Nov 26th. A definitive vision of Ice Age wildlife worldwide.

The morphs in Keeper use distance fields as an (implicit) surface representation, which makes it possible to control the distance at which the surface should lie. In other words, it’s easy to deflate or inflate objects, and meshes become easily ‘moldable’.

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RGB rendering is founded on lies and perpetuated by misconceptions about the practicality of spectral rendering. My new blog post series describes a spectral GPU path tracer. Part 1 focuses on how to make it work with existing RGB assets. momentsingraphics.de/SpectralRend...

So what is a "distance-field"? It refers to a function that tells you, for every point in space, how far away the closest surface is and—by extension—in which direction it lies.

Our IGN First month of exclusive ROUTINE coverage continues with a reveal of the Megazone arcade – including playable minigames – aboard the 1980's-version-of-the-future lunar base in this first-person horror game.

New blog post! Behind the scenes of some of the techniques involved in making our last PC demo 💫 gboisse.github.io/posts/this-i...

The experiments with surflets and voxels yielded some cool results, but it became quite obvious that distance fields were the way to go to represent the surface of morph objects (as I alluded to previously). This allowed us to implement some visually neat effects like this twist transition.

Wtf Microsoft won't let me subscribe to Gamepass using the balance on the MS account & is trying to charge my credit card every time I try. It has always worked before😡 WTH

The one thing missing in Starfield from a GFX POV is any form of SSS. It's IMO the primary reason why NPC faces always look off in most ligthing conditions (unless lit by your flashlight). Makes a huge difference when you compare it to the Outer Worlds 2. Same for the foliage/environments.

BTW, I would really like @consumerreports.org to watch this video and perhaps start breathing down the necks of those big companies for forcing everyone into using pre-dosed products. That's the opposite of pro-consumer, imo. youtu.be/DAX2_mPr9W8

This illustrates the full process of capturing the "Essence" of a mesh to be used in a morph. The distance field is retrieved and then the mesh is projected onto the cube-shaped "screen" in order to pack its surface properties into two cubemaps.

"Iterative Lightmap Updates for Scene Editing" from @momentsingraphics.bsky.social et al. Read the title and immediately thought this might apply nicely to Augmented Reality as well to update real light-paths for the changes introduced by new objects. momentsingraphics.de/PG2025.html

DV2 and HDR10+ Advanced sound like a step forward... but neither of these standards address the fundamental issue of content creators STILL not understanding how to use HDR, or (worse) refusing to even try. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bfU...

In order to use a mesh in a morph it has to be converted first, which is done by projecting its properties (base color, normal, roughness, AO) onto a cube. The results are then packed into two cubemaps. These maps in combination with the associated distance-field comprise the "Essence" of the mesh.

The AMD Radeon Developer Tool Suite just got a major upgrade, with support for the newest GPUs, enhanced profiling, crash analysis, and more. 🛠️ Our latest blog explores these brand-new updates for RGP, RGD, RRA, RMV, RGA, and RDP. ➡️ Learn more: gpuopen.com/learn/radeon...

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Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

15 hours into The Outer Worlds 2 & finally reached the second planet..it looks kinda nice 👀😳👌🏼

⚙️ Hotfix 1.0.4.1 for The Outer Worlds 2 is now available to all players. Please update your game when you see that this update is available to receive the following fixes and changes. outerworlds2.obsidian.net/news/the-out...

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Ha! I totally forgot that we did one more morph experiment using space filling spheres (thanks OpenVDB!). I was planning to compute a correspondence set, so that the spheres of the different shapes can move from one to another, but we moved on to another approach. Still looks pretty cool though. :)