Austin Beaulier

When I was a kid I loved model kits! I love building gunpla and warhammer and as an adult I channel that love into 3d modeling and sculpting.

@knightama @netflix They did the same to me. They are looking for free work for sure! Even insulted me by saying I needed more foundational artistic understanding and sent the same AI tutorials haha

How @Netflix got mad because I wouldn’t hand over my prompts for FREE - A thread ⤵️ A Netflix AI division asked me to do a free test for a potential job. I usually refuse free tests because free doesn't pay bills, but being Netflix I said why not, it may be a good opportunity.

I get zero engagement here on X but all other social media platforms I’m getting thousands of likes and views ✌️

@javilopen I’ve seen ai enthusiasts say things like “adopt or die” “Ai takeover is inevitable” “get on board or be left behind”

The biggest problem with AI haters isn't that they resist the greatest paradigm shift in human history... that's understandable: changes are hard for many; it was super hard during the industrial revolution too! No, the problem is their reductionist and, above all, fundamentalist view of the issue, where they try to impose their vision at all costs: criticizing, vilifying, insulting, throwing tantrums, biting, and basically acting like fanatics. On the other hand, I don't know a single gen AI enthusiast who goes around trying to force others to use or not use certain tools.

In 2018 I imagined the future of photography mediums. Instead of hundreds of photos to create 3D worlds a single photo would be used to create full interactive worlds. Everyday we are one step closer to that vision. Image->videogame

@javilopen Do you think corporations will bypass creators completely and serve AI gen content directly to us based on the algorithm?

About that common argument I keep hearing : “AI can’t create anything new because it only recombines what it’s seen from others”: Come on, genius. The stuff you create, did it beam in from another dimension or what? 😂 Creating something “new” always means using everything that has stuck in our brains through our senses, plus the little boot-sector we come with by default (basic instincts, the so-called “reptile brain”). If what you’ve stitched together shows the seams, it’s a bad creation. If it’s well woven, congrats: you’ve made something “new.” And if it’s stitched really, really well, you’ve made a great piece. With AI, it’s pretty much the same. Even if today it doesn’t have qualia or consciousness, it can recombine everything it has “seen” (what it was trained on) to create new things. From something as simple as “creating” the color gray after being trained only on black and white, to the first glimmers of higher-level cognitive abilities like solving complex problems and, over the next decade, much more: research and the discovery of new science. Creativity is interpolation between previously absorbed concepts, sometimes better, sometimes worse. With more or less depth. Nothing more, nothing less. If that interpolation is deep enough, you’re looking at a major creation: a masterpiece, a scientific discovery, a new mathematical theorem. No, humans don’t have anything magical that couldn’t also show up in other biological entities or, in this case, artificial ones.

A series of gaussian splats I took at the Beatles Ashram in India. Rendered in postshot

I love creating progress gifs :) On the detailing stage with this guy now! Made with @getPlasticity

@theCGchannel @Scanline_VFX I 3d scanned Christopher Lloyd for Star Wars he was grumpy

See how Eyeline Studios' volumetric capture tech was used to put Christopher Lloyd's head in a jar in Scanline VFX's making-of for Season 2 of Wednesday Watch the full video (interview-based, with narration): vimeo.com/1116613086 #VFX #VFXbreakdown #3dscanning @scanline_vfx

It’s true this trend is better in reality 🤖

What is the appeal of this? Why pretend you're using a 3D software and making a figure? There's literally no point to this.

Roughmess is right

I cant seem to get nano banana to create PBR textures like GPT will

Sometimes it’s really difficult and overwhelming

@cixliv I saw that it’s awesome

@AustinBeaulier Best I got is flamethrowers

Matt is trying to make me feel bad for starting a “robot battle” company. Matt works on CRMs.

@cixliv @rek Nice

“Hey guys, what if the robot could punch fire balls?” “Um, what?”

@MarkOfBecking @Polycam3D On top of getting your models + photos scrapped by Polycam

@Polycam3D 3 captures unless I pay €199 you have to f**king kidding me. Your pricing is absolutely insane!! Who in their right mind would pay €199 a year to use your app. Nuts! Used to be €79. Greed is a horrible thing.

A few months ago, we introduced our AI 3D Model Generator on web. Today, the AI Capture feature is available on iOS! 🤳 Photo to 3D model instantly. Straight from your phone. Upload or capture in-app. 3D creation has never been this simple.

@bilawalsidhu Would be awesome to do this to my favorite movie.

Damn it worked! Genie 3 world --> inpaint UI --> 4x topaz AI upscale --> train 3d gaussian splat You can step inside a painting of Socrates from 1787. Better than any image-to-3d model I've seen. I think Google has stumbled upon the killer app for VR -- the literal holodeck.

@EZE3D They did it back in 2020 and it’s amazing! youtu.be/ILGT25hA6xA?si…

It's interesting. If a 3D artist had done this by hand in a game engine, I would love it & think it's a skillfully inspired re-imagining. Because it's AI it completely changes my feelings. It feels pointless, detached, uninspired & tainted. Art vs Slop content 🤷‍♂️

The future of 3D is here and you can be in any movie! I also made a VR version of the shining using the same techniques!

Why did I do it? Because I wanted to prove something: ➡️ Play on the themes of the movie. ➡️ That AI can speed up worldbuilding. ➡️ And show my love for the movie.

What if I told you… you could build the Matrix in Unreal using AI? I built the first AI-generated VR version of The Matrix... in the Matrix from the Matrix. Unreal Engine + AI = lobby shootout created by AI. Here’s how I pulled it off (and how the video hit 150k views): 🧵