Sai Narayan

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

Furman power conditioner Proteus /1 Roland U-220 Korg M3R Alesis Divi 5 Motu microlite midi alesis 3630 compressor alesis quadraverb several Mackie LM3204 line mixers Ensonique EPS16 with many floppies of samples Panasonic SV-3700 DAC for sale, quadraverb is sold

I've got a bunch of vintage early 90s rack mounted gear for sale.

All in great condition, kept in a pro studio.

I'll price them a little lower than what I see them selling for, OBO.

*quadraverb is sold

Just Hank in the glow of the binary sunset 🌅 @sainarayan.bsky.social

That's all folks! Was a fun trip down memory lane doing this breakdown and the response has been encouraging, so will do more in the future!

@ProfessorOfSass.bsky.social is the incredible artist behind all this and everyone should go follow her! 👏 😤

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Here's the final model in Unreal, alongside the wireframe

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May 2025: @ProfessorOfSass.bsky.social finishes modelling and rigging our main character!

Behold! The Wanderer in all his final glory!

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Parkour

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Here's a more recent concept Rose did for Birdy circa April 2025, and the team loved it, cause of course we did??

LOOK HOW CUTE THEY ARE TOGETHER 😭

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As we continued work on the Wanderer, we started calling our companion character "Birdy" internally and that stuck around!

We pinned down our visual inspiration to L0-LA59 from Star Wars, and Rose started some explorations in that direction

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9 different sketches and concepts for different kinds of robot cat companions

Every hero needs a sidekick, and the Wanderer is no exception!

In the background, @ProfessorOfSass.bsky.social explored ideas for companions, here’s a first take we didn't go with

I may have just read "Save The Cat" for the 1st time and gotten too excited

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Here's that same shot with a stylization shader that Substance Painter provides out of the box

An early test for our stylized texturing workflow

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An up-close shot of the Wanderer's torso showing their shirt, a red scarf, and some cloth scraps hanging down from their back behind them

April 2025: @ProfessorOfSass.bsky.social finishes up retopologizing in Maya and gets to work on texturing and modelling the Wanderer's clothes and accessories

The addition of a "crotch-harness" was a hotly debated topic at this point

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I wish all beings a very good day ❤️‍🔥

Taylor is chill as heck and incredibly autonomous, fun, creative and talented.

Definitely who you want on your team!! 😤

Color explorations

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Some drawovers on top of the low-poly model from above

Explorations for clothes and accessories

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March 2025: @ProfessorOfSass.bsky.social blazes through the high-poly sculpts in ZBrush and then retopologizes the sculpts down to this low-poly guy here in Maya

The mesh is about 50% done, the other 50% is belts & cloth!

Other goodies in the 🧵

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Pringles Or A Transformer?

I made you Pringles in Unreal

Some other concepts that were giving Majora's mask vibes

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Some color explorations

Red is classic game protagonist but we personally liked the Blue/Cyan vibes more

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Some outfit and helmet concepts Rose was messing around with

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February 2025: @ProfessorOfSass starts to lock in on the modelling and ZBrush sculpts of our main character

More renders and goodies in the 🧵

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Control rig is crazy, I wanna experiment with some procedural animated mech/loader-bot type stuff next milestone

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Hello World! Messing around with Control Rig

Don't tell our animator ( @maddiebee27) I posted this because she'll eat me

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A different direction that we didn't go with is this guy, that pulls from Prince of Persia (2008) more heavily

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Here's the front/back of the base forms

Wandy been doing those squats 💪

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January 2025: @ProfessorOfSass.bsky.social is ready to start sculpting! At this point we've locked down a lot of the design and are ready to start modelling/retopo/rigging

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Digital drawings

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Pencil Sketches

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