Joel Thomas

@Sekani__Solomon Amazing work as always

As promised, process reel for our latest Cash Card x VCARB film 🙂

But for real, though, why is there not a native font installer for the iPad?

@zemotion Without stylization or transformation, the painter contributes little- not even the concept! Meanwhile, you chose the model, the costume, the lighting, the pose, the lens, etc. To any true artist, it is clear that the concept is your creation. Unfortunately, people are ignorant

@zemotion It’s ironic that a number of comments praise that “he actually painted something.” Clearly, they are not artists themselves. If they were, they’d know that copying (directly) from reference is the *easiest* way to paint. The painter becomes merely a glorified copy-machine.

People being absolutely normal over a woman not wanting her work to be stolen

@EdonGuraziu @boltondynamics I think there are boundary conditions. For example, a chef can feel proud of a home-made pizza even if he didn’t make the dough, but no one is going to be proud of putting a DiGiorno in the oven

Kind of awesome. The upscale deff feels like a clean and neutral operation based on the closeness to your initial sketch. But why does using the technology take your pride away? You clearly created the blueprint for that character, these rough strokes contain Ben. Does manually kneading dough for a homemade loaf of bread taste better because of your manual labor and effort? Even though the machine is probably superior. Is hunting only acceptable and rewarding when using your bare hands to kill a deer? Using incredible technology like a spear or rifle means you can’t be proud of the kill? Is physical effort the only requirement for a sense of accomplishment? When everything man does is invent things to decrease efforts and maximize results. Humans invented the mixer, the rifle and AI. All to enhance our lives and make things easier. But for some reason AI can’t join that club. Maybe we’re looking at the wrong vector. If a sense of self assigned contribution, effort or narrative is all that’s needed to make you feel good about something then that means that the threshold for this illusion is incredibly low. We are immersed in millions of human inventions every day. Every piece of tech, mundane prop or line of code has had so much effort behind it, making our lives function. By humans for humans. Nobody feels guilty about using a pencil while they never had to figure out how to make ink and how to cut a goose quill tip. We have all of the credit and none of the credit. Just a little stream of thoughts here. Cheers

I'm not blind to the qualities in the upscaled version on the right, and it is definitely amazing that you can "bake" a drawing like that. But I also don't feel like that's my drawing anymore, and I don't really feel any pride in looking at it. I'm proud of the actual drawing.

@eyedesyn First, artists needed to make “content” to improve their reach. Now, they’ll need to make content just to prove they made the work! I’ve actually been seeing more people trying to pass off Ai generations as their own 3D renders, which has been disheartening

Nope, no AI, just great use of human artistic vision and talent.

@eyedesyn I also would like Ai to make camera tracking faster and better

This is cool and all but personally I just want an AI to just render my own art super fast. Some AI denoising or something. AI textures 👌

@getPlasticity would like to see a narrated version of this that says the tools/hotkeys used

Quickly add surface transitions for smooth modeling in Plasticity. No Subscriptions. Ever. You can learn more about our powerful CAD software, Plasticity, at plasticity.xyz #CADforartists #plasticity3d

@RocketLasso Would love to see lessons on how to use Nodes from you 👌

"If this represents time, then somehow the future is affecting the past." Fun sci-fi turns of phrases you can only get in real life while bug-fixing tools.

@key_vfx So satisfying 🤤

heavy hitter #EmberGen

@PeterTarka @wacom There’s a known bug with the Huion tablet’s use of the Wintab.dll driver that causes Redshift to crash nearly 100% of the time. I’ve spoken with Maxon support- they haven’t been able to fix it since it doesn’t happen on every system (but when it does, it happens every time)

@wacom I guess it’s time to get Huion 🤡

@boltondynamics Why not work for some online education platform or use your skills outside the games industry?

There is no point designing cool guns for games, you will not get any reward for doing it. Really stupid people will get rich from nothing while you work hard. Then they will throw you away. Instead of that, extract as much money as possible from the system and give nothing back

@MartinNebelong lol, it’s like an ai-powered “make me better at art” filter 😂

P(ai)nting - crazy and weird to see brush marks transformed like this as I'm painting.. Stick around for the animated version at the end of the video. #ai #painting

@boltondynamics @_switz Requesting a follow-up thread on beveling/cleanup

What are booleans? Why booleans, how booleans? Wanna intersect with me? A game art thread for our time. RTs appreciated for this humble effortpost

Fun little FUI experiment with help from @RocketLasso plugins

Fun with leaves :-)

Haven't uploaded here in a while

@Jose_Molfino Man, I really gotta get into Houdini

messing with the new #Houdini #feathers system. #Karma

@boltondynamics Definitely would love to see more on the modeling operations to get to this level of detail. Surely there are techniques that make it faster

@boltondynamics The details look great!