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@mintyroot.bsky.social

CG Generalist by day, Brony Fan Animator by night He/him, bi Icon by @ayveestars.bsky.social https://www.youtube.com/mintyroot

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My last four pony projects ended up around 450GB each. This is quite a lot.
By comparison, Dinky's Destiny was only 23GB of stuff.

11.08.2025 07:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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One problem with the project is the scale it has. Trying to keep that within reasonable boundaries is definitely a challenge, given how unusual this project is compared to everything else I've made so far.

11.08.2025 06:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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So I'm trying to tackle as much animation as I can before Everfree Northwest. The production is going mostly smoothly.
I think this time around I'll be able to tackle renders later into the production.

11.08.2025 06:32 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Hello small horse, are you lost?

11.08.2025 03:37 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Nature is healing.

10.08.2025 04:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Honestly I mostly remember them talking about how not to mess up body paint for a cosplay. Valuable information.

10.08.2025 04:27 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If I understood this correctly, this starts with someone who's looking for their arms in a house, then eventually everybody dies?

10.08.2025 01:05 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I went to a Homestuck panel with a friend at a convention and it made me more confused about what this is about.
I feel like it will make it even more confusing.

10.08.2025 00:30 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

I had an argument with a musician about that exact thing years ago. I told him his piece was giving really weird artifacts on my cheap headphones, and he'd tell me it's not a problem on fancy headphones.

09.08.2025 00:23 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh, I'd love to try this on original hardware and on a CRT TV, that sounds like a really fun game.

08.08.2025 20:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

*Shoots the phone out of his hands*
"I think you misheard me"

08.08.2025 07:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I wanna say ... a push for more AI products that require very minimal physical interaction, but also suck ass and won't actually do the thing you want it to do for you?

08.08.2025 07:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Probably. I can see a parallel where in the original they changed the silver slippers from the book to ruby ones to be a better showcase of the power of the technicolor process
However, that was an adaptation. Here this feels like changing a movie to be used as an advertisement for a new big screen.

08.08.2025 04:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Soon

08.08.2025 04:01 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In this specific case, the DNR is taking so much processing time that switching to hardware encoding wouldn't even change the export time.

07.08.2025 06:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The panel footage from CanFURence is still processing. The whole panel happened in low light, so a dose of DNR won't hurt.
The render time on the other hand will hurt.

07.08.2025 04:30 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Is that even a slur? It just sounds like a portmanteau of click and wanker.

07.08.2025 00:33 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Time to route the most optimal run to get to your booth.

07.08.2025 00:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Internally, Apple engineers planned this device as a cost-reduced alternative to the 150 by using two cheaper and smaller LCDs in place of a bigger one.
The second trackball was added so people would feel like they were getting something extra out of that deal.

06.08.2025 07:18 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It could be used for that, but in this case this is just used for tracking purposes.

06.08.2025 07:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Unfortunately Android doesn't have the ability to let two applications use cameras at the same time, so I have to tape two separate devices to make it work.
It seems like the gimbal can handle the extra weight, but the combination is very tricky to use properly.

06.08.2025 04:45 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It's very convoluted and I feel most of it would be fixed with some software instead.
ZY Cami's app is the only app that lets me use AI tracking to make the gimbal follow a moving subject.
The app however sucks at video recording, so I need a second device to actually do the video recording.

06.08.2025 04:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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It's too late to help...

Agnes Tachyon.

#transformation
#transfur

06.08.2025 04:07 β€” πŸ‘ 246    πŸ” 58    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 0

Hello Fresh ads are the new Punk Rock.

06.08.2025 03:48 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Because nothing says counterculture like a product that a lot of big tech companies promote heavily to an audience that has no interest in it.

06.08.2025 03:34 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

THEY CALLED ME A MADMAN.
You called it tinkering with electronics.

06.08.2025 02:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Behold! My most cursed setup yet.

06.08.2025 02:24 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
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I'll give a try.

05.08.2025 23:48 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's also worth noting it probably also looks bad because executives wanted it to look a certain way, forcing artists to do their best under a style that just didn't suit the project.
For example how they couldn't use a shallow depth of field to get a look like the original movie.

05.08.2025 20:33 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I can't really be surprised anymore. We've had a bunch of "AI" projects that turned out to have used extensive amounts of VFX to get done. This one has no reason to be different.
AI just won't do the things you want it to do.

05.08.2025 20:29 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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