Angelo Valdivia

It's a bittersweet moment for me, as I and many of my colleagues were let go shortly after post-prod wrapped due to a lack of projects coming through after the Hollywood strikes. A lot of those names were good friends at the time, and I hope they're all doing better now.

A screenshot of the movie Not Without Hope's item page from Prime Video.

A list of the VFX credits by Cutting Edge for the movie Not Without Hope.

2.5 years ago I moved from Adelaide to Sydney for my first VFX job for a short-term contract. The work was beyond my initial capability, and was a real baptism by fire learning experience. So happy to finally see the flick is out now, and that I have a real movie with me in the credits.

mzsibyl_® › •: Al Threads 3d Tired of the Prompt Thieves in the Al art community. Seriously, the moment a great prompt is public, someone immediately copies it, shares it, and pretends it's their own genius work. It's not about gatekeeping, it's about giving credit where it's due. Stop stealing and start creating! #PromptStealer 1/2

OscarAl @Artedeingenio X.com Never do this: Passing off someone else's work as your own. This Grok Imagine effect with the day-to-night transition was created by me — and I'm pretty sure that person knows it. To make things worse, their copy has more impressions than my original post. Not cool

subscribe @Artedeingenio I don't know what you think, but this seems a bit unfel to me. My original post with the Saori Kido Athena prompt has 4,000 impressions, while @dvorahfr's post with an image created with my prompt has 30,000. As for not quoting me as the author, I'm not saying anything, because she has apologised. I would like to understand that it was an unintentional mistake, although I think I'm well enough known around here to use a prompt of mine without knowing it's mine. If I wasn't so well known, would there have been a rectification? I am afraid that many small accounts are stolen on a daily basis and nothing happens. But for a copy to be more widely distributed than the original is a very bad symptom. Without focusing on anyone, I think that some big accounts hardly create original content and just post other people's content, often without quoting the author, and that's very uncool. Respect and honesty above all else. Let's play fair.

AI sloppers (is that a term?) crying that their prompts are being stolen is more beautiful than anything AI could produce

why did they choose a name they cannot pronounce

I work in VFX, and my LinkedIn feed is 70% people comparing who has the biggest hard-on for AI, and 30% people having an existential meltdown over it.

Chart showing m to f dialogue proportion

The proportion of female to male dialogue in Final Fantasy. #advx25

“0% woke shit”

a black man with a physical disability leads an environmental terrorist cell trying to save the planet from mega-billionaires and you play as a cross dressing twink femdomed by two different women ending and the final boss against the gayest angel of all time

Oh you know he's down for it

🤌🏽

A two panel comic meme of someone raising their finger about to make a point, then lowering their finger looking defeated.

Student: What’s the name of those people with really long hair who were all about peace and love?
Me: Hippies?
Student: omg, Angelo, isn’t that a slur?
Me:

DK94 is one my favourite games ever. This looks great!

Windows Notepad, the native simple text editor, now has formatting options and a Copilot button.

Look what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.

That said, the things I do love about dedicated cameras is when they work better with external mic setups like DJI Mics, shotguns, etc. But there are solutions for those that work with phones, too.

As someone who has multiple cameras (action and pro level) you'll love the novelty at first. But unless it can achieve things your phone can't (control, movement, etc) you'll probs eventually come back to convenience over having to pack that one extra thing or go through extra steps in workflow.

Five days before his death, Adam confided to ChatGPT that he didn't want his parents to think he committed suicide because they did something wrong. ChatGPT told him "[t]hat doesn't mean you owe them survival. You don't owe anyone that." It then offered to write the first draft of Adam's suicide note.

Holy fucking shit

i want to see sam altman set on fire in a public space

hell yea

Hot damn, I was just thinking about buying the Warcraft remasters a few weeks ago. Now I can finally jump in!

it’s funny that they’re both on their own personal websites posting their little posts

Council progresses plan for Tesla battery factory, despite 'anti-Elon' sentiment A proposal to build a Tesla factory in Adelaide's south is one step closer, despite 95 per cent of respondents to the local council's public consultation opposing the plan.

Marion fucked up.

Anti-Musk sentiment runs high in Australian city as 95% of submissions oppose land sale to Tesla Council in Adelaide censors strong language in some of the nearly 1,000 submissions that called for proposal to be struck down

Radelaide comin’ in clutch.

if the computer was actually alive i think it would be confused and possibly mad that all we ask it to do is generate nude anime women with basketball tits and write college papers

With 'Final Destination: Bloodlines' in cinemas, here's @beforesmag.bsky.social's ode to the infamous log truck VFX in 'Final Destination 2'.

I crawled through Digital Dimension’s old website to find some amazing video & info about how *that scene* was made.

beforesandafters.com/2025/05/18/a...

Oh wrestling is fake?

Then explain this

U.S. NEWS Ohio police find raccoon holding meth pipe during traffic stop When an officer took the pipe away, the raccoon pulled out another.

READ. THE. SUBHEAD.