From @jmasten.bsky.social's @ardenpublisher.bsky.social edition of Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II: “These notations represent centuries of prior readers who, along with me, now welcome you to collaborate in the reading, staging and interpretation of Edward II.” Powerful stuff.

In his @ardenpublisher.bsky.social edition of Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II, @jmasten.bsky.social carefully separates the original text from the play’s reputation to allow for fresh interpretations and discovers a new copy of the First Quarto in the process. Impressive.

My introduction to Shakespeare was "Everybody’s Shakespeare" (later "Mercury Shakespeare") by Orson Welles and his mentor Roger Hill. These condensed plays are hard to get but I haven't found a better place to start. #Shakespeare

Andrew James Hartley’s experience in the theater adds a number of new and interesting choices to a play that is very difficult to add to. Julius Caesar also happens to be one of my favorite works of Shakespeare and an excellent place to start. #Shakespeare

Curtis Perry and Ayanna Thompson do an excellent job with a chaotic text of a chaotic play that demands to be understood in the context of the most current scholarship. #Shakespeare

The General Editors of the @ardenpublisher.bsky.social Fourth Series have managed to make these new editions more accessible while maintaining the same level of scholarship. The expanded "How to use this edition" section is particularly helpful. Quite an achievement. #Shakespeare

Zenith Radio Model for VFX artstation.com/artwork/4Nrgwk Modeled in Maya, textured in Substance Painter, rendered with Arnold. #AutodeskMaya #MadeWithSubstance #ArnoldRenderer

Render of radio with textures. Made in Maya, textured in Substance Painter, rendered with Arnold. #AutodeskMaya #MadeWithSubstance #ArnoldRenderer

Render of the final radio model without textures. Made in Maya, rendered with Arnold. #AutodeskMaya #ArnoldRenderer

WIP renders of the complete internal parts. Made in Maya, rendered with Arnold. #AutodeskMaya #ArnoldRenderer

WIP test render of the interior parts. Made in Maya, rendered with Arnold. #AutodeskMaya #ArnoldRenderer

WIP test render of the shapes for the interior parts. Made in Maya, rendered with Arnold. #AutodeskMaya #ArnoldRenderer

Updated test render. Rendered with Karma XPU in Houdini. #Sidefx #Houdini

Updated test render. Rendered with Arnold in Maya. #AutodeskMaya #ArnoldRenderer

Updated test render. Rendered with Cycles in Blender. #b3d #blender

WIP Test Render. Rendered with Karma XPU in Houdini. #Sidefx #Houdini

WIP Test Render. Rendered with Arnold in Maya. #AutodeskMaya #ArnoldRenderer

WIP Test Render. Rendered with Cycles in Blender. #b3d #blender

Test render of grill curves made with Bifrost in Maya, rendered with Arnold. #AutodeskMaya #ArnoldRenderer

WIP test render made in Blender. #b3d #blender

Test render of grill curves made with geo nodes in Blender. #b3d #blender

WIP test render with Karma XPU. #Sidefx #Houdini

Test render of another angle. #Sidefx #Houdini

Test render of a new grill. Couldn't get what I needed with textures or geo, so I had to make it with curves in Houdini. Rendered with Karma XPU #Sidefx #Houdini

Test render of updated textures. #MadeWithSubstance #AutodeskMaya #ArnoldRenderer

Test render of the start of a possible wood material for the cabinet. #MadeWithSubstance #AutodeskMaya #ArnoldRenderer

Updated test render with some additional materials. #AdobePhotoshop #AutodeskMaya #ArnoldRenderer

Test render of dial with glass. Rendered with Arnold. #AdobePhotoshop #AutodeskMaya #ArnoldRenderer

Done with the characters, still needs some clean up and a few other small things. #AdobePhotoshop

More progress creating the dial #AdobePhotoshop

More progress creating the dial #AdobePhotoshop

Slowly making progress #photoshop

Test render of WIP texture for the radio dial. Couldn't find a font that worked, so I'm painting each character. #photoshop

Time to start texturing. Testing some Substance smart materials to get an idea how it looks.

First pass on the grill material, made in Substance Designer #MadeWithSubstance

Still trying to get the shapes right.

Modeling an old radio for a new project.

Alternate render of glass destruction. Made in Houdini, rendered with Arnold, texturing done in Mari and Substance Designer. #SideFx #Houdini #ArnoldRenderer #VFX #MadeWithSubstance #FoundryMari

Houdini Glass Destruction artstation.com/artwork/y4NbXO #SideFx #Houdini #ArnoldRenderer #VFX #MadeWithSubstance #FoundryMari

Alt test render of glass destruction. Made in Houdini, rendered with Arnold, texturing done in Mari and Substance Designer. #SideFx #Houdini #ArnoldRenderer #VFX #MadeWithSubstance #FoundryMari

Test render of glass destruction with textures. Made in Houdini, rendered with Arnold, texturing done in Mari and Substance Designer. #SideFx #Houdini #ArnoldRenderer #VFX #MadeWithSubstance #FoundryMari

Test render of floor materials made in Substance Designer. #MadeWithSubstance

Test render before texturing the details and creating the floor. Made in Houdini, rendered with Arnold. #SideFx #Houdini #ArnoldRenderer #VFX

Test render of glass destruction. Made in Houdini, rendered with Arnold. #SideFx #Houdini #ArnoldRenderer #VFX

Updated WIP RBD sim. #SideFx #Houdini #VFX

WIP RBD sim. #Sidefx #Houdini #VFX

Procedural Night Sky. Made in Houdini, rendered with Arnold. www.artstation.com/artwork/nJZ8a9 #sidefx #Houdini #ArnoldRenderer #VFX

Render of half moon rise with stars. Made in Houdini, rendered with Arnold. #sidefx #Houdini #ArnoldRenderer #VFX

Test render of Moon rise with stars. Made in Houdini, rendered with Arnold. #Houdini #ArnoldRenderer #VFX

Test render trying to replicate the way the Moon looked last week. #Houdini #ArnoldRenderer #VFX