Hourigan

No matter how skilled you are, there are only so many hours in the day, and you need more time, more eyes, more hands, and more brains to pull this off. All of that translates to money. Which 9/10 times for stuff like this goes unappreciated by most people.

This is what I hate most about people drooling over Rockstar, they think the devs are doing something nobody else can do, but all they're doing is flexing their massive budgets. And it's a good flex! I like it! But it's embarrassing that people don't realize that it's that they have infinite money.

Not just in the manual keying and weight repainting, but also in the troubleshooting and tweaking. Hours and hours for a single animation. Most budgets can't justify it.

I think my implication can be misread here that I'm saying this doesn't take skill, when it absolutely does (I couldn't do it), but there's tons of animators that can pull this off. But they need TIME. Tons of it. It's labor intensive to make this.

It's lowkey goals to be able to pull off an animation like this some day. I do think this is a classic example of people mistaking labor with "technical." You gotta know what to do for sure, but ultimately this is a problem solved by money, not necessarily anything uniquely difficult.

This isn't really a glitch in the system, it is how it operates by design--but it definitely goes against the myths a lot of us are taught about capitalism, that it's somehow the democratization of the economy, when it really is not.

What are you going to do? Stop buying products that don't exist? How are any of us going to push back against the synthetic billions that are being created by an infinite money glitch? We can't. The market is following the money, not people.

The crazy thing about manufacturers like Nvidia pivoting away from consumer products to focus on AI is that it exposes the secret of capitalism: people don't make markets, money makes markets. Consumers are basically voiceless, no matter their size. They can't impact this in any meaningful way.

I genuinely think shader-based workflows are extremely slept on by motion graphics and video editor people, it is so responsive and fast, it just doesn't have some of the underground structure you're used to working with, but you can do hybrid and elevate like crazy

I've been trying to blenderpill my fellow editor folk, and as a test decided to see how quickly I could make a layered-noise sun that took me 30 minutes to make years ago and took like two hours to render 30 seconds of footage for. Took me 12 minutes to make and rendered 30s of footage in 6 minutes

I just lost the game

I've taught myself 3D modeling, texturing, and Unreal Engine. It's taken a year. And my progress has been exceptionally fast, I'm a very quick learner and have other foundational skills. The idea someone could bring a watch from concept to product in six months is insane lol

I just couldn't justify the low payouts while also realizing I needed to change my content up. I needed to take risks, which takes time, and costs more money. I've come to peace with it.

Working on something at the moment and it's taking time to get correct. Since I have a day job, I can't devote full time to it, so I make progress in fits and spurts when I have time so I don't burn out.

Yes and yes

The story is genuinely insane. There's just no way a six month special interest hyperfocus is enough to turn you into a multimodal watchmaker with complicated moving parts lmao

This one actually might be a genuine scam even, if you buy one of these you may never get an actual watch possibly. It might literally just be an inroad to do some sort of more sophisticated pig butchering scam or something with a fake egirl as the bait.

This is the same grift/scam that basically ruined Etsy, it's the commerce version of shovelware, but now it's making its way onto the storefront that is your shorts feed. These things will probably turn your skin to dust from a metal reaction, might even have lead in them.

Woke up with Adderall withdrawals and so I'm scrolling YouTube and I got this vid in my feed. Had an odd feeling about it and dug a bit deeper and it turns out to be a scam where someone is using AI and editing to sell a fake story to resell watches they bought from Ali Express.

why

Aurore was criminally hot

The Alex dance was torture

God so real

Songbird, she's the protagonist of the DLC, she's borderline full borg.

Phantom Liberty was such a lesbian feast

I cleaned out 600gb by just deleting everything before 2024 lol

Downloads hasn't been cleaned out since 2017 lmfao, I have everything from 3D models to huge datasets in there, nearly 10 years of stuff.

lol downloads go brrrrrrr

Like I haven't cleaned "exports" out in 6 years, it is full of six years of videos, that's not that crazy. I should rein in davinci though lol

my documents drive only has like 100gb left on it so I decided to windirstat check it, and there's some stuff here that's not surprising but "DaVinci Renders" being enormous despite only using it for like half a year is insane lol