I watched Flow tonight with the family. I did not expect to be moved so profoundly. A film has not done this to me in years and I am so grateful to #GintsZilbalodis and his team for it. Amazing. #b3d #flow
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hey guys! my Ruinator mesh destroyer is finally on the Blender Market. It's just a geometry node setup (not an addon) but fairly versatile and allows you to quickly ruin structures in Blender. Remember, it's Ruinator, not Urinator. #b3d
https://blendermarket.com/products/ruinator
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After considerable research and experience, I'm going all in and banning AI use in my studio design courses this semester. Here is my statement I'm adding to my syllabi. #education #design #ai
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I also got the impression that our legal systems are in no way fast enough to stem the damage they will do to our creative classes and they know this and are working as fast they can to grab as much as they can before laws catch up to their crimes. https://www.wired.com/story/new-documents-unredacted-meta-copyright-ai-lawsuit/
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After several phone calls they eventually told me that they would not need my services. But I was left with the distinct impression that mega rich institutions like Schmeta and and Schmarvard are gleefully stealing every aspect of our culture to position themselves to resell it back to us.
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I said I was happy to exhibit how long it takes to make these models, but that it might not be what they want as it is still a time-intensive craft that takes years to learn how to do creatively and competently. They said they didn't want me to lie, but that was not what they were looking for.
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These attorney's wanted me to show that I could make textured 3D models quickly and and easily in Blender to exhibit how easy they are to make and that the lawsuit against them for stealing hundreds of thousands of 3D models was worthless. They were willing to pay me significantly to do this.
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They wanted an expert who would state that 3D models aren't worth anything because they are so easy to make. Evidently Shmeta and an ivy league school we will call "Schmarvard" had scraped data illegally from a certain company's online library and used it to to train their AI...
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I haven't told anyone about this yet, so let's go: Last fall, attorney's working for a certain social media company we will call "Schmeta" reached out to me asking for help with a copyright suit specifically because I was an academic who is also an 'expert' with Blender. 🧵
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My procedural mesh ruiner is ready and will be on the Blendermarket in the next day or so. For better or worse it is named, The Ruinator, which I only later realized is one typo away from being The Urinator. #blender
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Monday night render #b3d
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One of the hardest parts about teaching art is the massively different starting points of individual students. The assignments need to be versatile enough to meet them where they are, and interesting enough to motivate them for more than just a grade. Each fall I make a reel of their work to celebrate their success. Here is this year's. vimeo.com/1040220726
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My brain: Make something look 8bit in #Blender. Me: Ok. My brain: now add "Seasons Greetings". Me: Ok.
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Quick experiment with light linking in #blender
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sometimes I am blown away by my students' work. this is by my student, Dylan, G. for a final project this semester #blender
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I've been studying retro #motiongraphics that I adored when I was a kid for upcoming tutorials and experimenting with what I can recreate using only #Blender and procedural techniques. this is one result after a couple hours playing around.
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Hi everyone. If you've followed me on other socials you know every four months I ask for your good hopes and positive energy as Oliver and I travel to St. Judes for his next MRI. He had a brain tumor removed over five years ago and gets checked three times a year for any recurrence. Thanks!
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Mastodon is now the only social media that doesn't make me sick. The past few days have perfectly demonstrated how the algorithm of for-profit social media is a corrosive force in culture and an emotional cancer to our society. I deleted my Twitter account a few months ago and have not missed it at all. I think all my meta accounts need to go next.
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another experiment with aurora made with #Blender shader nodes
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Everybody's timelines have been full of aurora, so I thought I would try making my own out of shader nodes in Blender.
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