Thom Wickes

a man wearing sunglasses and a hat with the words we 're putting the band back together ALT: a man wearing sunglasses and a hat with the words we 're putting the band back together

my gastroenterologist to me after my last boost

(it wasnt)

That was me!!

but really tho...

Protest in New York City on 26th Street.

New York Fucking City. A full mile of people filled to the brim. Fascism is going to lose.

Look how freaking easy it is not to fold your morals like a dollar bill

Val Kilmer tweeting I once tickled Lou Reed. I regretted it for the longest while as he spoke to me few times after that dinner. But I'm glad now. He needed it.

RIP King

Fiasco Check out this great listen on Audible.com. The story of the movement to desegregate Boston’s public schools through busing—and the backlash that followed. In 1974, a federal judge ruled that Boston’s...

Currently really enjoying Fiasco: The Battle for Boston. Telling the story of the desegragation of Boston schools through a modern lens. The series on the AIDS crisis was pretty spectacular too.

wiki screen shot describing a production incident in which ronald reagan was nearly killed by the chimp on set

lol holy shit i'm reading the wiki for Bedtime for Bonzo (1951) starring Ronald Reagan and look how close a chimp came to altering the history of the entire goddamn planet

CHIMP/BUSH '84

every example of how AI could be useful is like “if you were eating cereal, AI could tell you what cereal you were eating”

how old were you when you first realized that toast is just toasted bread? i was 37

DMs are fixed!

"Chippy Shop"

Yep

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100%! Lots of really fun ways to apply non-realtime ideas to realtime and vice versa.

Tornados looked amazing! Congrats

Oh shit Jakes here

I loved it! what did you work on?

ArtStation - Niagara: Camera friendly sprite rotations

I tried to make a tweet (skeet?) thread about camera friendly particle rotations in Niagara. I gave up trying to get gifs to work, so made an art station blog post instead.

Hope someone finds it useful!

#vfx #realtimevfx #unreal #niagara #gamedev

a fun lil solution to this is to adjust the rotation based on the relationship between the viewing angle and the velocity vector 3/5

but this starts to break down when viewed from another angle, due to the nature of sprites rotating relative to the camera 2/5

Ok. I'm going to start doing some VFXy posts

YouTube video by thomwickes Thom Wickes - Demo Reel, Fall 2023

Obligatory film demo reel share - work predominantly completed in Houdini.

(Working in Unreal/Houdini and living in England now)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWOV...

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