Me too, let's stick to healthy "two weeks in between replies" schedule 😁

Whoooo! Nice to have you here!

Merry Christmas, Graphite community! You have waited patiently and it is finally here: the Graphite native desktop app is yours to download on Windows, Mac, and Linux. This limited public release candidate build (RC1) is available to download in our Discord (join via the link on the website).

This is *PERFECT*. (and if you like this sort of thing you should go watch my @entagma.bsky.social tutorial on how to create a version of this same data in 3D using Houdini and QGIS entagma.com/guest-tutori...)

Though I do need to shout out @getplasticity.bsky.social for having an installer that just works and @sidefx.bsky.social for having a really, really good and quick tech support team!

My experience as well. Everything that can be installed through the software center runs rock solid. For everything that still needs a manual install (aka all professional software) you have the Linux experience from 10 years ago. Still more enjoyable than Win11 tho...

Probably my favourite setup this year! Hope you'll like it as well!

Awesome! Those mask options look really good as well!

That's so cool! I did not know that context aware scale also used a shortest path algorithm behind the scenes! And accumulating values reduces the probability of paths moving sideways along a row?

I wonder if you could stretch an image by inverting the map and adding pixels with averaged values...

Find shortest path, but the contrast between pixels acts as cost? Or is it more complex than that?

Photo of telecommunications mast on a mountain with a funny name near Garmisch Partenkirchen, shot in infrared, edited to look similar to Kodak Aerochrome

View of a dried up riverbed next to a hiking path on a mountain, shot in infrared, edited to look similar to Kodak Aerochrome

View of a winding path up to a mountaintop with cross, shot in infrared, edited to look similar to Kodak Aerochrome

View onto Garmisch Partenkirchen from a mountain with a funny name, shot in infrared, edited to look similar to Kodak Aerochrome

I recently modded an old dslr of mine to shoot infrared and took it up a mountain.

Macht Halbmetallica dann elektronische Musik? 🤔🤔🤔

Episode 3 of our APEX course is online!

Watch it now:
entagma.com/apex-ep-03-a...

Awwww thanks!!

And if you‘re in any shape, way or form interested in actually using these tools for their intended purpose, please take a look at the other talks as well! So much cool stuff presented by so many great people!

www.sidefx.com/houdini-hive...

How To Use KineFX For Everything But Character Animation | Christopher Kopic | KineFEST 2025 YouTube video by Houdini

SideFX recently invited me to KineFEST in Viborg, Denmark to talk about my (weird) usecases of KineFX. You can now watch it online!

youtu.be/k9i_PqjnQds?...

Basically every german motion graphics artist

The Dream of the Metaverse Is Dying. Manufacturing Is Keeping It Alive Forget Mark Zuckerberg’s vision of VR meetings; the industrial metaverse bridges digital and physical worlds in a way that’s actually useful.

So the only useful thing that came out of that whole metaverse hype is 3D software with some collaboration tools sprinkled in? 😄

Anyways - interesting to see Disney USD being used in industrial plant planning!

www.wired.com/story/the-me...

Any Blender animators out there who take on shortish commissions? Preferably more stylised almost anime style stuff? Please share if you see this! Might be a little bit of work on something cool for a pitch deck.

Turbulence YouTube video by Houdini

Tumblehead and Chris Ruthledge have been cookin'!
youtu.be/HFYtXwj4QMk

The new episode of the free course APEX by Magnus is online:

entagma.com/apex-ep-02-r...

So excited for this course - the first two episodes are already so so good at going into one of my main stumbling blocks with watching Unreal tuts: not really getting how Unreal expects me to *think*, and my Houdini mindset just wasn't porting across properly. Great work, @chriskopic.bsky.social!

Today the new course Unreal Engine Blueprints 201 is launching!
Watch it now for free on Entagma.com and leave us your thoughts, requests or feedback in the comments.
We hope you are having a great day and that you had the time to learn something new this week!
Cheers!

Song: John Tasoulas-Odyssey

For everyone interested in this thing or daring enough to build their own: I created a Github repo with all files needed.

github.com/christopherk...

The first Episode is now online:
entagma.com/free-course-...

I've previously tried and failed multiple times trying to explain APEX from a non animator/rigger perspective, so I'm really really really happy to have Magnus from Tumblehead helping us out here!

Heyhey! Here's the thing we've been secretly preparing for months now!

Pro Tip for getting those @raphaelrau.bsky.social style hyperrealistic electronics renderings: Spend 3 months designing electronics, doing cad, 3d printing, soldering, glueing and coding to just take a photo instead. (May take slightly longer though 😅)

After a bit of soldering and a lot of coding, the pcb is now a finished midi controller!

Tomorrow Chris has a another Tutorial for you that uses Large Language Models to their full potential! He will show you how you can rename your points into old english town names! We hope you have a little fun with this one!

#entagma #llm #houdini #sidefxhoudini #ai #languagemodel #gemma #chatgpt