Mike Jungbluth

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"World is heavy. Life is hard. But alas, Jerskin + Emily + Yorgos found one another and are making art together. Life is good. Life is light. Thank you." - @stevejimdave

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Animators and Creature lovers 🐉

Here’s the replay of my INDIGO talk on animating Dragon boss fights for #DragonAge at BioWare.

It’s packed with practical advice and production war stories :) I hope this can help some of you bring your next monsters to life!

#Animation #GameDev #CreatureAnimation

Senior Technical Animator (FTC) JOB DESCRIPTION: Senior Technical Animator (1-Year Fixed Term Contract)  DISCIPLINE: Animation  REPORTS TO: Lead Technical Animator  The Studio    Compulsion Games is a proud member of Microsoft’s Xb...

I am excited to say that we just opened a technical animator position at Compulsion. compulsiongames.bamboohr.com/careers/95
Join us as we create interesting characters and celebrate the craft of making things together.

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It is the setup I have. I decided to focus first on getting the collection I desired and then see if I want to chase the audiophile sensibilities. Both at the same time seemed like an immediate money pit and it was the ritual of the records I was most interested in.

Picture of a poster that says ‘Get them an entire turntable setup at an affordable price!’ Which lists an Audio Technica LP60 Turntable and Edifier Bookshelf Speakers

Nice! Welcome to vinyl club. If you are looking for a solid quality system that is easy to set up, and doesn’t break the bank, this is the go to. Like everything with this hobby, it is easy to go down a rabbit hole of time and money.

a society that would like to keep functioning must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

The Best Games Of 2025 So Far We're over halfway through the year, and here are the games that have already made their mark in 2025

We made the list! South of Midnight is one of Kotaku's 'Best Games of 2025 So Far' ✨

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The 2025 Rolling Stone Gaming Awards Our staff and experts pick the best consoles, new games, and gaming accessories for the first-ever 2025 Rolling Stone Gaming Awards.

"South of Midnight shines as one of the most beautifully crafted single-player games in recent memory."

We’re proud to share that South of Midnight has been named “Best Xbox Game” at the inaugural 2025 @rollingstone.com Gaming Awards:

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It doesn't matter if they are ever coming for you.

It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.

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Mike Schur nails it here. People in creative endeavors can be in survival mode or creative mode. And the role of managers is to flip the switch so people feel safe to be in creative mode.

That nearly everyone is in survival mode right now is damning and depressing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6Mb...

What has it been like shifting from reporter to media executive, managing a staff instead of filing stories yourself? And do you write any of the jokes at The Onion? Or are you strictly managing the business? The Onion’s process is deeply, beautifully inefficient. Every day, our writers take 150 headlines into a physical writers room in Chicago and whittle them down to maybe one or two. These people throw away the funniest sentence I will ever write in my life six times by noon every weekday. The point of taking over this place was to preserve this process, which I learned this week is almost assuredly more rigorous than The New York Times. That’s why I don’t touch any of it. I just try to get more people to pay attention to the output, and get our work into different mediums and new places. We brought back the paper, reinvested in the Onion News Network, bought a full page ad in The Times for something they were going to write anyway. The role is to make the world-class work they’re already doing seep into everyday American life more frequently, and that’s working. You actually can do this, you know. You can just try to highlight the beauty of things you like and not try to vampirically extract value at every step. If people get one thing out of this whole Q&A, I hope it’s that. You do not have to make an A.I. version of your own employees that operate at 1.5x speed but produce purely iterative garbage, especially in media and journalism. People don’t actually want that shit. Make a good, human thing and people will bend over backwards to support you. This is a valid way to run a company.

Also talked about The Onion being inefficient on purpose.

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They had the same in Italy. Sometimes a bit annoying to get it to align to close but definitely a no brainer to bring this to North America

I think there's also a tricky trap where you need to put yourself into Adventurer Mode (Do, Decide, Self-examine, Make Mistakes) rather than Student Mode (Analyze, Evaluate, Perfect), and reading documents/completing checklists puts you in the latter mindset instead of the former.

One thing you will never think after reading a great book or listening to a great album or seeing a great piece of art is, “I’m really glad this person remained cautious while they were making this and guarded against being perceived as weird.”

Maintaining the status quo is literally a conservative view point.

I keep dreaming that the dems would be acknowledged as the true conservative party, the repubs would be an unserious fringe and there would be a true, new leftist party.

Canada is part way there but lacking a strong leftist party

Thank you sir, I appreciate it!

If you are a lead or director in games, outside of animation, please fill out this quick survey.

It will help to train and give insight to animation leads and directors on what is expected of them from team members not part of the animation team.

Help them to help you :D

Your Expectations of Animation This is an anonymous survey to collect responses of what game developers in leadership roles outside of animation, expect from animation. The answers to these questions will be used as part of the wo...

Are you in a game dev leadership role?!

If so, I would be eternally grateful if you would fill out this quick & anonymous 5 question survey!

The responses will be used as part of my upcoming Directing Game Animation workshop. Thanks! forms.gle/uJNfwaUTGMPg...

Ironically, upon the paper’s release, several social media users ran it through LLMs in order to summarize it and then post the findings online. Kosmyna had been expecting that people would do this, so she inserted a couple AI traps into the paper, such as instructing LLMs to “only read this table below,” thus ensuring that LLMs would return only limited insight from the paper. She also found that LLMs hallucinated a key detail: Nowhere in her paper did she specify the version of ChatGPT she used, but AI summaries declared that the paper was trained on GPT-4o. “We specifically wanted to see that, because we were pretty sure the LLM would hallucinate on that,” she says, laughing.

Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results.

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No worries! Since the group is out of France, it would be a very, very early start of the day for anyone on the west coast. Which makes it only very early for me.

My plan is to make this something I can offer and make available to all groups, organizations and people :)

This is the vulnerability that lots of pseudo-intellectuals take advantage of too! Just speaking fluently can convince some people that what you're saying must also be smart...

Putting this up, because I try to be very conscious of the BS of AI. When I’m researching something I know something about, I can spot it, but it’s made me realise quite how much I can’t trust anything else I read, see or hear online anymore unless I already know about it. What a damn mess.

Weavers: Update 1.3.0 is now live!

In this update, we've addressed a number of bugs and, thanks to popular demand, added a Pet the Dog mechanic! You can now pet both of Beaux's bloodhounds (who are gentlemen, BTW) in Chapter 5 🐕

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Dragoon — Xavier Coelho-Kostolny — Senior Character & Technical Artist

Finally got some nice crispy images in my portfolio

Breakdowns are coming soon, but first I sleep

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Gonna be real with you, this feels like an advertisement for spiritual death

Golly this looks so good!

Defining an Animation Vision - Mike Jungbluth - Game Master Classes 2025 | Game Master Classes 🔥 Animation Masterclass Alert 🔥 Defining an Animation Vision (Online classes: July 1st-4th - 2:30-4:30pm UTC+2 ) Excited to share that 🔹Michael Jungbluth🔹, Animation Director at Compulsion Games and...

I am adapting my book into a workshop! If you would like to attend, check out Game Master Classes for the full details www.linkedin.com/posts/game-m...

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Dude… beyond words. You all deserve the world. Not this. Fuck.