Johnny Matthews

Another beautiful display in the night sky here in southern Illinois

Is there a fiction weapon that ends up turning on, and killing its master? If there is, its name would probably be a better name.

YouTube video by Enertech Global EM Flex Introduction

The marketing department at my office took some renders that I did and added them into this B2B product intro video. All done in @Blender rendered in EEVEE.

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

Truck Norris Twisted Eats - Ellisville, MO What started out as a dream years ago, became a reality for Todd Norris in the summer of 2017. With the purchase of his food truck, Todd set out to make Truck Norris a success. It has quickl...

I love a good play on words and also a good lunch. So going to a food truck turned restaurant called "Truck Norris" in St. Louis was a real treat. Also super tasty.

trucknorrisstl.com

When your adult son is half way across the country you find a way to stay connected. A little live @magic.wizards.com was a great way to spend some time together apart.

Can someone in power, in this awful timeline, actually be held to account? Is that too much to ask?

YouTube video by Johnny Matthews The Secret to Controlling Array Modifiers with Armatures in Blender 5.0 beta

Blender 5.0's new Array modifier gives an interesting way to control lines of arrays with armatures. In this new video I show some possibilities that the new node can offer. #blender #b3d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1pX...

YouTube video by Johnny Matthews A Faster Way to Use AmbientCG Textures in Blender - FIXED VIDEO

I just released a video that shows a new @blender.org extension I put together that allows you to import @ambientcg.com materials straight from their zip file.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq-b...

Left handed but grew up learning to do many things "righty" (Play guitar, bat, swing a golf club, throw a ball, use a mouse), but writing, drawing) oddly, I use my left hand for a fork, but chopsticks are righty.

Waiting for Twenty One Pilots at the Jones Beach Theater in NY after an awesome day with my kid in NYC. Saw the sites for the first time and now ready to see an amazing show!

Yup we’re out here

They say don’t meet your heroes. And I’ve been disappointed by some in the past. But I’ve recently been interacting online with someone whose work inspired me to get into 3d over 25 years ago and it has been a great experience interacting as a quasi peer.

I’ve gone down the rabbit hole of writing a C++ library that exposes python functions to Blender. So many interesting possibilities.

I know how that is, been there before with a similar sized amount. So easy to get disappointed over something that was a longshot to begin with. ☹️

I wish you the best of windfalls.

YouTube video by Johnny Matthews A flocking sim test for my upcoming particle tutorial series. #b3d #blender #geometrynodes

I made this flocking sim test while deciding how to teach my upcoming particle tutorial series

#b3d #blender #geometrynodes

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What do we do? …. We die

Gurren Lagann was one of the first anime I ever watched. I, a grown man, cried ugly tears at a certain point.

Believe in the me that believes in you.

I’m currently redoing my video series on making particle simulations in #blender #geometrynodes. The outline currently sits at 13 videos. This is gonna take a while to make.

Oh boy, I better not show my daughter this.

I also like ‘spicy autocorrect’

Here is the closure that is supposed to alter the velocity vector.

It kinda works for cohesion. But they coalesce really oddly.

Nope, I meant in geonodes. Repeat zones in side foreach zones inside simulation zone == Not happy

I got a ways in and realized my method was getting way too loop heavy and performance tanked. I started over trying not to use many (or any) loops to see if I can maintain performance.

Keep looking, it’s not me.