New: 404 Media is suing ICE. We have filed a lawsuit demanding ICE release its $2 million contract with Paragon, a company that makes powerful spyware to break into phones and read encrypted messages. This is expensive for a small outlet but this info is important www.404media.co/were-suing-i...

Nice to see story about Warsaw picking up on here 🙂

v1.108 is rolling out today 🚚 Now live, at long last: Bookmarks, aka Saved Posts. For all those posts you'll definitely plan to come back to! Update the app and give it a try. The button is right down there 👇

Houdini 21 is here! KineFX gets a Motion Mixer, Animation Catalog, Autorig Builder & enhanced muscles. Copernicus adds GPU Pyro FX, reaction diffusion FX & texture baking. Solaris expands with Shot Builder, Live Rendering & Gaussian Splats & much more.  www.sidefx.com/products/what...

Wow! Sainte-Catherine East, in Montreal’s Gay Village, is going to be rebuilt as a permanent year-round pedestrian street. Currently it’s only car-free each year in the summer.

It's time to share the program for the 2025 Advances in Real-time Rendering in Games. Check out all the details here: advances.realtimerendering.com/s2025/index.... and, of course, come attend the course live on Tuesday August 12 at SIGGRAPH in Vancouver!

Check out the #Houdini 21 sneak peek! We’re sharing a preview of some of the new features. More will be revealed at SIGGRAPH 2025 in Vancouver—don’t miss the Keynote, HIVE presentations, and more starting the week of August 11.  www.sidefx.com/community/hou...

Got unlimited search from Kagi for this month and will try to use it exclusively. Hopefully search results gonna be better.

New discovery some of VFX packages that are super useful but have a lot of dependencies and scary to compile have vcpkg: vcpkg.io/en/ which make it easy! Compiling openImageIO took me 10 mins yesterday! #vfx #techart #pipeline #gamedev

in-depth thread: optimizing GDScript performance from ~83ms to ~9ms in a scene our tower defense game Rift Riff, made in Godot, with 1000 enemies. 🧵👇🏼 #gamedev #godotengine

One of things always fascinated me how some languages have terms for things and others don’t. For example English does not have translator (good) translation for concept of “clair obscure” while Polish does: “światłocień”. Also here is cover of Lumière in Polish: youtu.be/jVKvRIYQKxs

Got new book today 🙂

My point exactly 😅 also a lot of specific things that I end up doing in terminal require me either compiling something on windows or installing random close source software

The sample code and slides for my workshop (“Fundamentals of 3D Graphics Programming with Metal”) at One More Thing 2025 are now posted—thanks to everyone who attended! github.com/metal-by-exa...

A streaming music translator: I Don’t Have Spotify. Paste a share link from Spotify, YouTube Music, Apple Music, Tidal, Deezer or SoundCloud and get links to that music on the other platforms. idonthavespotify.donado.co

SideFX recently invited me to KineFEST in Viborg, Denmark to talk about my (weird) usecases of KineFX. You can now watch it online! youtu.be/k9i_PqjnQds?...

Omniverse UI doesn’t support unicode in fonts am I supposed to use image for ➕ emoji like a caveman?

Omniverse GUI pattern of using “with” for scoping is best example of why using clever patterns in programming is bad and it’s better to use simpler solution. Starting to miss QT 😐

1h video about cat memes, internet still can be cool: youtu.be/PKdUvW8fMj0

Enter the Houdini Game Art Challenge! Create art and assets for use in real-time game engines and compete for exciting prizes! Click here for more info and to request a 6-month #Houdini Indie trial license: www.sidefx.com/community-mai...#Houdini Environment art by: George Hulm #games

I'm looking for software developers who can help me write a floating license server for MOPs+. Some experience in Houdini is a plus but not required. If you're interested or know someone who is, please reach out to me at [email protected].

Blog Post: Graphite progress report (Q4 2024) - Quality of life improvements across drawing tools and procedural editing graphite.rs/blog/graphit...

A really useful bluesky tech art feed: (thank you @andcuriouser.com !) bsky.app/profile/did:...

I'm finally getting to hire a VFX Artist for my own team! 🎉 I'm more than happy to look at applications on the Junior end, so please please please apply if that's you! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/41...

this is sooooo awesome

Flow mural in Warsaw! 🐈‍⬛

Great video on music, history and culture with nuance that is often missed: youtu.be/byjw_3ZnbLQ

We just added more accounts to our ESA Starter Pack! You can now follow our language accounts for French, German, Dutch, Italian and Spanish!

Get ready for the MARDINI Daily Art Challenge! 31 days, 31 challenges—your chance to create, compete, and win cool prizes. www.sidefx.com/community/ma... #MARDINI2025 #houdini

Typing for @sidefx.bsky.social made by Ben Andersen(would love to @ him but not sure if he is here), check it out: pypi.org/project/type... #houdini #python #houpy #vfx #techart #gamedev #cgi #3d

Curious if anyone use Rust for some #vfx or #gamedev pipe tools/software?

New VFX/Tech Art Newsletter is out! 📃Read online: simonschreibt.de?na=view&id=20 ✋Subscribe: simonschreibt.de/newsletter/

Obsidian is now free for work. Starting today, the Obsidian Commercial license is optional. Anyone can use Obsidian for work, for free. Explore the organizations that support Obsidian on our site. obsidian.md/blog/free-fo...

My bday gift to myself 😅

Any recommendations for “independent” audiobook store? Basically like GOG for books, I want to have there might be app but with option to download non-DRM files. Ideally with good selection of books in English and Polish(and maybe French or German)

Scripted a custom texture type called DoodleTexture, which lets you doodle right in the inspector. Great for quick-n-dirty placeholder textures. Has undo/redo, brush colors/sizes, and runtime support. You can grab it here: github.com/CozyCubeGame... #GodotEngine #gamedev

IDK why this account wanted me to fill administrative region of Poland but on top of that it doesn't accept names like "Schleswig-Holstein" or "Kujawsko-Pomorskie" 😐

Finally had some time to test if it's possible to create auto-cutout-tool that does that automatically in Houdini, quick test in video #sidefx #houdini #vfx #techart #rtvfx #ue5 #unity #godot

Counterpoint: we were less experienced when we made Celeste and especially TowerFall and those went great

Have you ever wanted to start editing Wikipedia, but got overwhelmed or felt like you didn't know where to start? Every time I encourage people to start editing, I hear that, so I'm trying to help. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRRH...

How to convince me to like CEO of company. I can admit I’m pretty basic but it needs to be honest

This sounds so cool, would definitely go if I would be based in London!

We all have bunch of personal tools and preferences that we made over time and it's hard to live without them. In thread below I show some of mine. Feel free to share yours! #houdini #vfx #techart #cgi #3d #python #houpy

Like all orange cats share single braincell all FX artist share one single key frame that can be set on parameter that’s why they are so into expressions #vfx #techart

I got this annoying issue where sometimes when I connect to different network hostname of my MacOS laptop changes and breaks #houdini license, found some guide how to fix it though: simcityltd.medium.com/fixing-macos...

This is pretty sad and annoying

i never fully understood the DDA algorithm for drawing lines on pixel / voxel grids. so i figured it out, and wrote a blog post explaining it. all the code examples in the blogpost are interactive and modifiable. aaaa.sh/creatures/dd... #techart #gamedev

Some personal story on language weirdness while learning. Way back when I was learning programming and my English was really bad(not that is good now lol), one of largest problem I had was understanding word “float”, not what is it but just word. Ok but why? 1/x