Sintel box art

Just chucked Sintel onto my NAS and was impressed to see Plex recognises it!
Now I can cry for Scales with ease even if the Internet goes down.

Decided to make a new planet as I've not done that in a good long while. Not started in Blender yet but spent the last couple of hours in Krita putting together a seamless (horizontally) texture.

Edited together some shots from yesterday's walk around Chatelherault Country Park in Hamilton. These were all down by the White Bridge. Beautiful little spot.

Lessons learned:
Take longer shots as editing together short ones is tedious.
Pick somewhere with less hazards

I use autohide so not been affected but that sounds well annoying.

"Apple: It just works" 😂

For any MacOS users:

I noticed a huge drop in battery life after the 26 update. Strongly recommend updating to the beta 26.1, seems to have resolved it.

Seen a lot of for and against rows over the new MacOS 26 online. Installed the beta so I could see what camp I fall into.

Turns out, im in the "meh" camp. Looks a bit different, does the same stuff, who cares 🤣

A DJI Mini 4k drone in flight

Considering picking up a DJI Mini 4K to get into drone flying.

Figure with all the waiting around I do in scenic locations it'd be a good hobby to pass the time.

Been working on an Aquarium recently, long way to go but I'm liking how it's going so far.

*hijacks plane
*murders pilot

Me *turning to friend: "OK. Now fly this thing!"

Friend: “I can't fly a plane”

Me: “But you told me you were a master of the skies!”

Friend: “No. Master of *disguise*”

Me: “Then why the heck are you dressed as a pilot!... Ah OK I get it now.”

AI generated: A warlock with a little fairy on his shoulder, whispering in his ear.

The little fairy kneeling with her true form standing behind.

Me and the family are gonna try a DnD game.

For my character Ive picked a Warlock with a mischievous and manipulative Archfey as his patron.

Used InvokeAI and Flux 1.D to bring them to life.

The really frustrating thing for me is I feel caught between two opinions.

On the one hand, Ai is costing us jobs, and that'll only get worse.

On the other, I've been learning to use InvokeAI and Flux for image generation and it has gotten so, so good. It's genuinely fun to use.

😡

I'm responding to this on a laptop on my coach during a break. Pretty much sums up the situation for me 😂

Nasa data reveals dramatic rise in intensity of weather events Extreme events such as floods and droughts are becoming more frequent, longer-lasting and more severe, study says

If only scientists could have warned us about this decades ago!! .... wait .... 🤔

I hear they added support for PlayStation VR controllers too. Still baffles my brain they released the thing without them in the first place 🤣

Stormtrooper-ass looking cops standing in front of a giant donut.

Give the photographer the Pulitzer Prize

There is something not quite right about remoting into a Windows machine from MacOS 🤣

I've converted my workstation to all be powered from a docked MacBook. The monitor, speakers, K&B, etc all plugs into that.
My Windows box is now connected only via ethernet for rendering/AI/remote gaming.

3d printer dock mount

3d printed dock mount

Little day-off project. Modelled and printed a little holder for my laptop dock, usb hub, and audio interface.

The one cable (on the right) powers my laptop as well as connecting my screen, speakers, microphone, keyboard/mouse, and ethernet to it.

Got around to some BeatSaber today, I've been pretty lazy with it since I started working out of the house, but gonna try and fight my way back. Gotta fight off all the roll and sausage I've been eating 🤣

(It's more comical if you imagine me lip syncing to the words and exuding cringe dad vibes.)

Not heard of this before, interesting 🤔

Baking VDM (3D) Sculpting Brushes in Blender YouTube video by Gleb Alexandrov

What makes VDM different from normal displacement:

Standard displacement moves vertices along the surface normal (up/down).

VDM uses a 3D vector (x, y, z) per pixel, allowing full spatial displacement, so it can create overhangs, folds, etc

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gL_...

#b3d #3d #blender3d

I've always been anti-apple and in principle, I still am.

That said, it's an amazing bit of hardware. There just isn't anything that quite ticks all the same boxes on the Windows side imo.

It's been pretty impressive really, I'm able to switch to rendered mode and still navigate a scene like Classroom in cycles.

For actual render time I'm using Flamenco to send it to my workstation at home but overall it's pretty damn impressive tbh.

A Macbook with Star Trek Enterprise on the screen, with a latte and a roll in the background.

Roll and sausage, latte, and Star Trek. My next pickup in 4 hours.

I have such a challenging job 🤣

A Macbook air sitting on the steering wheel of a coach from the drivers perspective.

Blender on a coach, nice.

Alongside the rest of my team I've been hit by layoffs. I'd be grateful for help finding a new place to apply my skills at!

7y of professional Elm experience; would also be comfortable in Haskell, TypeScript, Erlang/Elixir/Gleam, OCaml, Kotlin, Scala

email: martin@janiczek.cz

Many thanks for RTs!

I'm about a week into owning a Macbook Air, my first Apple device. I'd previously sworn never to get one but the battery life swayed me given the new job driving coaches... lots of free time out and about.

Gotta say, so far, I'm pretty damn impressed with the thing.

Good insight. We have ideology, they have products.

Amen to that 🤣

Haha, I've always found OBS audio to be a confusing mess. Glad im not alone.

Just setup Flamenco on my Home Lab.

Now I can render from anywhere in the world, on any device that supports Blender, and it'll send the job to my home workstation.

What a time to be alive. #b3d #blender3d