phillip

this is cracking me tf up as an aussie 😭

I was curious about how design apps differ in their edge / corner / rotate hit areas, so I wrote a script to move my mouse in a 50x50 grid and track what the cursor was.

We see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere. That's us, together, watching as our astronauts make their journey to the Moon.

100 million gallons of fake water, simulated on a $300 graphics card, by one guy in his room. Avatar: The Way of Water spent $250 million on VFX. Water was the single hardest problem. Cameron had to build underwater motion capture technology that didn't exist yet, then deploy 2,500 artists across multiple studios for years to get those ocean surfaces right. Godzilla Minus One won the VFX Oscar on a $15 million effects budget because one young compositor brought water simulations he'd been running at home into the office. The director saw the quality and rewrote the script to add more ocean scenes. Now a solo artist is pushing 100 million particles with foam, bubbles, and spray all running in one unified system on a consumer NVIDIA card. The software costs less than a single hour at a Hollywood VFX house. Meshing through Houdini, final render in Blender. The pipeline that required a building full of artists and a render farm the size of a parking garage now fits on one desk. Every technical artist running that video back is doing the same math: the distance between "studio-quality water" and "my bedroom" just collapsed to a subscription and a graphics card.

tried unclogging my pen and accidentally sucked all of the oil out

he literally decomposed a DaVinci Resolve timeline into domain-split JSON so editors, colorists and sound designers never touch the same file. he's 18 btw.

Sydney

Sydney

Which one of you is responsible for this?

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