mkaic

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by mkaic 5y ago
"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something." "Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please do
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by mkaic 5y ago
Counterpoint -- tilts and shots of people standing up are framed very nicely in portrait. Humans might have widescreen vision, but we are vertical creatures physically. To be clear, I totally think landscape is the correct choice for a lo
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by mkaic 5y ago
Of course! I'm still pretty young so I grew up watching ATLA and have rewatched it several times since then. One of the greatest animated series to ever air.
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by mkaic 5y ago
Agreed. It was one of the first movies that made me realize what animated movies were truly capable of. Fast forward 10 years and now I'm absolutely obsessed with animation -- it's one of my all time favorite art forms! You can co
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by mkaic 5y ago
Agreed. I think portrait as a format opens up some cool compositional ideas, too, especially when trying to convey a sense of distance in city areas with lots of converging parallel lines.
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by mkaic 5y ago
Portrait vs. Landscape has always been an interesting debate to me, especially in the context of filmmaking , a space where, until the advent of TikTok, basically everyone scoffed at the idea of cinema being vertical -- because, well, ph
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by mkaic 5y ago
I agree with this. I own both a mid-range DSLR and an iPhone 12 Mini. In the past six months since I got the iPhone, I've transitioned all my short films to being shot with its tiny sensor over the DSLR's -- it just looks much, mu
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by mkaic 5y ago
yeah, 'bruh' has been a thing for the past... 7-8 years now? hit its peak around 2016 but is still going strong.
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by mkaic 5y ago
f-strings are so incredibly handy!
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by mkaic 5y ago
Obligatory plug for the free version of DaVinci Resolve, too. Excellent fully featured editing software that even has a pretty good compositor too.
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by mkaic 5y ago
yeah his Lazy Tutorials definitely feel a little "draw an Owl", but his longer form videos on Patreon are much more laid back and (I feel) accessible.
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by mkaic 5y ago
Polyfjord is fantastic. If you're interested in the filmmaking/VFX side of things at an intermediate to advanced level, I can't recommend Ian Hubert enough. His YouTube channel is legendary but his Patreon is even better, ton
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by mkaic 5y ago
Always really exciting to see a number like 10X anywhere in release notes, it's like Christmas!
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by mkaic 5y ago
There are few things more exciting about getting a new computer than getting to test how fast Blender runs on it!
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by mkaic 5y ago
They added a really nice quality of life change in the node editor! Now you can drag a noodle out from a node into empty space, release, and get the Add Node menu automatically popping up, which is something the community's been wantin
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by mkaic 5y ago
I genuinely think Blender is my single favorite piece of software I've ever used, especially the latest few versions. While it's always been a powerful piece of software, the past 3 or 4 major releases (really everything since 2
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by mkaic 5y ago
Agree with this. Blender has some of the best training material available, especially compared to its competition, because it's free and open source, so anyone can use it and, importantly, anyone can make tutorials for it!
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by mkaic 5y ago
Let us know how that goes! I'm getting an M1 Max MBP sometime in the next two weeks and already know the very first thing I install on it after booting is gonna be Blender. It's a rite of passage for any new computer I acquire!
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by mkaic 5y ago
Oh, missed that! Still requiring the newest OS though which is understandable but unfortunate.
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by mkaic 5y ago
In my experience, I actually find the community does a pretty darn good job of keeping up with the training side of things. There are several dozen YouTube channels that just make Blender tutorials 24/7 for a living, and every time a n
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by mkaic 5y ago
Blender's pace of development is blistering and never fails to impress me. The community is also super inspiring, and the founder of Blender, Ton Roosendaal, is a really cool person as well. I'm super hyped for the future of this
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by mkaic 5y ago
Metal backend is currently only M1 compatible, which is a shame, but still super exciting that they added it at all. Really great to see Apple contributing to the project, plus I think they mentioned they plan to make the Cycles Metal backe
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Blender 3.1(blender.org)
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by mkaic 5y ago
Eh, reads fine to me. Helps break up the list so that people don't just skim over it, I'd guess.
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by mkaic 5y ago
hopefully M2 as well!
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by mkaic 5y ago
Except you don't have to buy their display, that's part of why the Studio is so nice. You can buy any generic display you want that doesn't cost 1600 bucks. For what you get, the 2k Studio is an absolute steal in terms of com
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by mkaic 5y ago
M1 Maximum Plaid (late early 2024)
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by mkaic 5y ago
Hearing about the long demise of this game makes me really start to wonder: is there an opportunity here? The concept behind Star Citizen is spectacular--unfortunately, that concept is also all it has going for it at the moment. But there
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by mkaic 5y ago
Thought it was my connection for a sec, then decided to check the status page just in case -- lo and behold! Tried to post the same link here just a minute ago haha.
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by mkaic 5y ago
Sure. I'm all for safety, but I also think that unsafe AGI, like the atom bomb, is an inevitability. It's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when we invent it and release it. The future is already murky but it's about

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