Beyond Dev - Tyler Walker

Tired of your custom normals breaking during shapekeys? #b3d #NPR

I like the new "Mask to SDF" node in the compositor. #b3d

@DallienceRNG He strikes again!!! This dynamic lighting purely topology driven or any special shader or normal based stuff going on? Looks great 🔥

IMMEDIATELY made the base shader better so posting this rq

@bandinopla @threejs This is splendid!! Very well done.

@threejs DEMO: bandinopla.github.io/three-mediapip…

Just updated my three-mediapipe-rig npm module so you can create a face that deforms with the video in @threejs. This opens the possibility to all sorts of interesting effects and mechanics. Link to the demo below, no preloader so wait a bit. Questions? just ask.

Today I want to showcase an addon called "ARKit Toolset" created by @andyhellgrim. The addon comes with a built-in ARKit reference guide, adds empty shapekey slots for quick preparation, and comes with a pre-made anim and eye test controller for ARKit.

@ApraxasKuma A little progress on this! Building support for VRM poses and Mixamo animations!

@realBeyondDev What I'm trying to do is to have a quick way to apply the animations to the avatar inside blender so I can test the physics and stuff, so I cut the unity work as much as possible.

@realBeyondDev Hi there, random question... How hard would it be to bundle some vrm animations like the ones from 3tene with your VRM Extension Suite? It would be awesome being able to preview the character actually moving and stuff in blender, so we can tune the vrm settings.

@peteborks Just following up on this. Do you have any updated information on this ?

@peteborks Is this something you can release as a marketplace asset?

Michelle's proof of concept is out! I'll share more details on how we achieved the look by combining CelShading, Hatching lines, Weighted Outlines, Painted (and Procedural) Stylized Normals and Motion Smearing. Check the thread for the result and breakdown🧵 #unrealengine #ue5 #stylizedart #realtime #3dcg #shaders #techart #technicalart #niagaravfx #realtimeVFX

Hey there. Seemed like the right time to make an account here. Developing a parkour runner game called Tachyon Flow - check it out!

CELRIG is a Blender add-on that realistically mimics the rostrum camera setups used to create 80s-90s era anime films. If you're interested in using it and can provide helpful feedback, DM me and I'll send you a beta version as well as a free license when it goes live. First come, first serve! The add-on is intended for use with Blender 5.0+. Although you may still be able to use it if you're totally unfamiliar with the program, I recommend a rudimentary understanding of the interface. The add-on will include a simple instruction manual to make things easier.

@simplifyinAI This was dropped last year in October. In case anyone is wondering if this is a different paper than was released last year, it’s not

Apple just did something wild 🤯 They quietly dropped Pico-Banana-400K. It’s a 400,000-image dataset for visual editing and it might redefine multimodal training forever. Instead of relying on synthetic noise, Apple built a brutal quality assurance pipeline. They generated edits on real photos using their internal Nano-Banana model, then fed everything to Gemini 2.5 Pro. Gemini acted as a visual judge, ruthlessly scoring the images on realism, preservation, and instruction compliance. This isn't just a static dump of images. It’s a dynamic training foundation: → 72K multi-turn sequences for complex editing chains → 56K preference pairs (success vs fail) for alignment → Dual instructions featuring both long prompts and short, human-style edits Any lab can now train models to Pixar-ify a face, swap backgrounds, or shift lighting, learning strictly from high-quality, real-world examples. While the timeline is distracted by reasoning models, Apple just did something nobody saw coming.

It uses the built in shape key normal deltas if exporting as GLTF or VRM (this is a gltf-io default feature for blender), and I have yet to build support for exporting as FBX, but there is a pathway there as well. I’ve already confirmed unity supports these blend shape normals on import, and I have been in touch with warudo devs to add support. So all in all it’s looking good so far! I will probably ship the addon before the end of march :)

@realBeyondDev How does it handle exporting?

Tired of your custom normals breaking during shapekeys? #b3d #NPR

@ProperPrompter nice work! I'm struggling to preserve original audio from a video when using a character reference to replace the character in a source video. I'm using agent mode on their site. You got any tips?

seedance 2.0 testing: v2v style transferring reference video + text prompt: change every frame in the entire scene to match the art style of the arcane animation, style transfer

just make it exist first, you can make it good later! :) I did some VFX work a few months back and learned a lot through this project working with fractal noise! My real first draft got lost somewhere, but I kept scrapping it until I got to the first draft shown below. 😭

@ashlee3dee Now do flux 😮

flow?

‼️Someone is impersonating me via Discord ‼️and contacting my past clients. I will never ask for your avatar source files via Discord or do payments outside of Vgen. If anyone does, they are not me. ⚠️Please report and block if you are contacted by a scammer.

Testing out some painterly art style. I like how it's going so far. I'm tweaking the normal maps to have brush strokes to make it seem like the light is painted on the model. Mostly base colors applied still, the shading you see on the cloak is purely normals! WIP WIP WIP!

Added some stray strokes to make her look more painted rather than being a 3d model :) #blender

【MEL更新】UVを四角形化ツール境界UV以外にも対応 cgjishu.net/blog-entry-428… UVの境界を四角形に整列させるツールの更新です。 UV境界(UVBorder)以外のUVでも四角形化できるようにしました。 また、鋭角な4UVを自動選択する機能を追加しました。

@ashlee3dee Well done!

made it work with 4.5 and also added a brush stroke id output mode so you get 3 channels of noise to use for whatever shader variations on a per-brushstroke level

@guidorosso @MattJedrzejewsk @rive_app @rossplaskow Thanks for these tips! Character animation is my goal, yes. Will follow and take a look!

@realBeyondDev @MattJedrzejewsk @rive_app @rossplaskow And for character animation and rigging follow @rossplaskow and our YouTube channel, tons of stuff there

Head controlling the 🦆 or🦆 controlling the head? 👀 👉Made entirely in @rive_app Check file in first comment 👇 Any wizard out there who wants to turn this into an actual, working product? 🥸