Ian Maclure

log 1: "Fell off just before the lay back. Should have got the on sight, but ah well" log 2: "Watched Adam fall for no reason."

my favourite logs on UKC is when the belayer makes a log just to burn the climber 😂

But social media doesn't want nuanced if damning criticism; it demands Easy Dunks.

Haha, emotional tracks from games specifically - but I can allow Uncle Iroh!

👨‍🍳👌 mmmpf, that has some rhythm to it!

Have done! My thanks to you and the team for making such specific tools for #realtimevfx artists!

"I Really Want to Stay at Your House" into "Aeriths Theme" is a laser targeted kill shot for me personally.

I'm willing to play anything under 50 hours to find something to Hit Like That, but my theshold for anime bullshit isn't great. Kingdom Hearts gets a nostalgia pass.

Emotional Heavyweights game playlist: Answers, FFXIV. Zanarkand, FFX. Hollow, FFVII Remake. Phantom Liberty theme. Footfalls, FFXIV Endwalker. Bury the Light, DMC 5. I really Want to Stay at Your House, Cyberpunk. Aeriths Theme, FFVII. Simple and Clean Orchestral, Kingdom Hearts. A Place to Call Home - Melodies of Life, FFIX. Close in the Distance, FFXIV.

What would you add to this playlist that would just decimate you in the middle of a work day? Or what would get you pumped enough to flip your desk?

I appreciate there are obvious heavy hitters missing here because I've not played enough Nier or something.

I love how they looked at the radio play concept and said "What if instead of a BBC news broadcast, we do it as a SAAS startup's promotional trailer, you know, where the camera follows all the mouse clicks!"

And somehow that framing being so low budget still highlights how low budget the rest is.

Barney, some shotgun ammo, and a HEV recharge station.

YouTube video by UnNainConnu We're Off To See The Wizard - The Wizard of Oz - HD with subtitles

I'd bet they had the AI extend things first, realised it didn't hold up, then VFX teams painstakingly recreated it.

The yellow brick road *does* have a curb though.
youtu.be/5bVgmhj2_vU

Nailing the hand drawn topo vibe 👌

Alright, due to popular demand, let's start talking about the

🎶 Beasts with the fur (with the fur) 🎶

in ✨HERDLING ✨

Here's a 🧵 with the process and tech behind the fur on our fluffy Calicorns:

I really love how nearly every greyscale node has a built in 'background' input and blending modes - such a game changer!

Very smooth gradients and blurs from a "glow" and "Directional Blur" node in Illugen

It's starting to feel like #Illugen's Directional Blur node is worth the price of admission alone. Look at that chroma shift control...

#realtimevfx #rtvfx

Counter point (not that I disagree): knowing your brand and understanding what fits within it, helps a product succeed creatively - especially when it's being driven by a multi national co-development behemoth.

Tried recreating the Portal 2 gels and made a little environment to go with it. Made with render targets and I actually gave the gels collision volumes to actually make you jump and stuff.
#VFXFriday #rtvfx #vfx #gamedev #ue5

Did you know that Lost Skies is a survival exploration game where nearly all of the world has been made by the community? And it has a fully featured level editor that you can make and explore islands in?
store.steampowered.com/app/2102670/...

I will allow "Mr Brightside" because if you want to act like a shitty student bar, just commit to the bit. Don't try to be clever - it's patronising.

Proudly supporting a new law that would revoke a businesses liscense to play music, if they use "Closing Time" as the last song 15 minutes before telling customers to leave. Severe fines follow a three strikes rule.

This is yt poop as a GBA cartridge

Link's first word: "Chat..."

I immediately jump him off a cliff

I will say that IMO this *specific* reason probably isn't a concern here, either way you choose to go about it.

There was a small debate on our survival game team about beds needing to be a certain distance from engines to give a rest bonus. I had to point out there is an entire fantasy of having an engineers bunk on a star ship next to the engines.

Or, maybe you wanted them to put more restrictions on adult content on the site, despite the fact that the campaign led by collective shout was done in bad faith, picking out content that has already been reported and removed, so no degree of curation would have prevented them from attacking itch.

Or, you wanted them to come up with an alternative payment processor years ago, despite the fact that it is a monopolised market, where any payment processors that handle adult content would force itch users to adopt stringent guidelines and cost the site an unaffordable overhead.

This is not any sort of gotcha. So you wanted them to make users aware that there is a future possibility of payment providers clamping down on adult works, years ago. As evidenced by users, years ago, being aware that there is a possibility of payment providers clamping down on adult works?

Bios crash slurpee would fix me

slurpee machine with one crashed screen

I'm drinking the Bios Crash slurpee I hope it crashes my bios I hope I blue screen

When I'm three paragraphs into writing a game industry article for the nyt and I haven't said that video games have come a long way since pac man

"There are three kinds of magic," said Wizzler, handing us each a balloon. "You can control tigers, you can shoot tornadoes from your fingers, or you can fly by holding your breath. The color of confetti inside your balloon will reveal which kind of power you have." I felt the panic rising in me. What if my confetti turned yellow, indicating that I was a Tiger-Talker? My family, a long line of proud Tornado-Fingers, would disown me. Could I ever return home, bearing such shame? I tried to calm myself as I readied the ceremonial safety pin. Green, I thought, willing my hopes into reality. Please be green. I popped the balloon, involuntarily shutting my eyes. When I opened them, would I see the green I hoped for? The yellow I feared? What if, gods forbid, the confetti were blue? I opened my eyes, seeing shock on the faces of my classmates. Wizzler himself stared at me, wide-eye. Looking down, I saw myself covered in confetti... purple confetti.

“I don’t understand,” I growled, my body trembling with pain. “I combined eighty percent Earth-elemental mana with twenty percent Fire-elemental mana (Type B), focused through a twenty-four-sided icositetragon made of yellow topaz. This, in conjunction with my blood type, star sign, sense of humor, and nickname, should have produced a blazing column of lightning to vaporize my enemies. Instead, it made a big bubble that smells like fresh laundry. Why?” Skullgrumbler began to laugh. “You fool! You don’t even realize…” he squealed. “You’re facing east!”

“It’s whatever you want,” explained Magemaster Grampledog. “Magic is just whatever you want.” I knew he was speaking in riddles, but I couldn’t grasp his hidden meaning. “So the rules are…” Grampledog lit a sliver of smokereed. “No rules. You say some words and you wave a stick and whatever you want just happens. You don’t even need the stick.” His wisdom still eluded me. I stared into his face, trying to decipher what he was really saying. “No, listen.” Grampledog snapped his fingers and his desk turned into a pile of chicken nuggets. “I didn’t even know that would happen.” His hat then came alive and began to yodel. “It’s pandemonium,” he explained. “It’s complete nonsense.”

In my experience there are three kinds of fantasy magic novels: