shahar2k

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by shahar2k 8y ago
this has a lot less to do with rendering quality available, (features) and much more with the skill level and polish put into the final product by the artists. (the TV movie, likely had orders of magnitude less time to concept, model, rig,
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by shahar2k 8y ago
My career involves making visual art (drawing painting, 3d art and more) there is a lot of great advice here, Kingkawn is absolutely right, familiarity with the materials absolutely shortens the gap between desired results and actual result
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by shahar2k 8y ago
not just for women, a lot of the kink side of tumblr expressed a much healthier attitude and freer mindset towards these topics, and it's a rough thing to see it go away. I run 3 obscure tumblrs myself (only one of which is sfw) and it
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by shahar2k 8y ago
so, I'm an artist. I've done pixel art, I'm a professional 3d artist, I can draw sculpt and imitate various styles, tend to work in low detail 3d field (previz) where speed and readability are the top priorities. my advice fo
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by shahar2k 8y ago
I think a lot of what you're seeing is the rather basic color palette, snes and a lot of older games were very creative with their use of colors and much more subtle about doing things like adding basica textural detail to items, as we
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by shahar2k 8y ago
I actually met Jordan Mechner a couple of times, around 2011. I had a coworker/common friend who would throw big parties I recognized him oddly enough based on his drawing style, as a fan of his blog. he was sitting in one of the bedro
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by shahar2k 8y ago
microsoft changed the pen behavior in one of the creators' updates and now the pen buttons behave strangely (randomly dont work in certain applications) as well as the pen being registered as a finger in legacy applications for a while
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by shahar2k 9y ago
provided no other variables... considering it's 71% of the area of the planet, I'd say it's 71% likely to rain on the ocean
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by shahar2k 9y ago
is this a measure to avoid patent conflicts? (or is there an appreciable difference in inner workings)
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by shahar2k 9y ago
so, as someone naively excited about memristors I've noticed the similarity between Xpoint and memristive memory... am I totally off here though?
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by shahar2k 9y ago
and wouldn't a regime collapse mean looser controls on who has access to said nuclear weapons, and where they end up? like the Soviet Union.
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by shahar2k 10y ago
I would LOVE to see what happens if you feed it clearly NSFW images as the source, and let the network optimize for SFW instead
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by shahar2k 10y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI1C9DyIi_8 "the greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function" not a high tech talk, or particularly technically complex, but it s
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by shahar2k 10y ago
If you want a neat / more advanced version of that technique, check out an old game by looking glass software called terra nova, it uses a skeletal animation system but with sprites for each bone in the skeleton.
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by shahar2k 11y ago
those are fantastic pencils, I own a few, they are quite fragile though and the plastic casing tends to crack making the whole thing useless. when I'm drawing I really enjoy the pentel 1000, especially at 0.9 mm
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by shahar2k 11y ago
a lot of 3d work can be as much determined by stylistic choices and level of artist talent.. frostbyte is likely able to replicate quite a wide range oh physical phenomena and photographic artefacts much like GTA5 but it also heavily depend
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by shahar2k 11y ago
can this be done in a non-invasive way?
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by shahar2k 11y ago
So if it were possible to read a single neuron in the brain, and optimize input through its' signal would it be similarly possible to extract what triggers that neuron from such a setup?
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by shahar2k 12y ago
I've been researching parts for a while relating to non-vibration based haptic output... so far what I've found are solenoid type devices, electro static output (TENS units for example) or resonant actuators, but things like tacti
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by shahar2k 12y ago
I came here to make a similar digression but clearly am not the post to :) interestingly though this is one of the reasons for serifs on fonts! In stone carved writing serifs help remove corner stress and cracking.
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by shahar2k 12y ago
what about the feasibility of injecting energy on the ground (say a maglev rail based launch) such input wouldnt be contributing to the rocket's weight and therefore would reduce the needed fuel consumption quite a bit I would imagine.
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by shahar2k 12y ago
since the oculus already tracks its own position in space, a controller would really only need to know position relative to the headset, something like a front / down facing Leap motion (with minimal lag?) could do wonders for VR prese
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by shahar2k 13y ago
this would be a fantastic app to detect image tags automatically / correct itself based on user input... perhaps a captcha type method of tagging images ("cat" and then "not cat" )
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by shahar2k 13y ago
that's true, but as a freelancer that operates on OTHER people's computers... imo made life very convenient (especially having multiple gchat accounts concurrently with multiple yahoo / facebook account (yeah some holdouts ar
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by shahar2k 13y ago
unfortunately it's not a webapp
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by shahar2k 13y ago
After Meebo, and now this, as well as their dropped support for skype, and extreme pluralization of all IM / chat mediums, and dropping of most generally accessible protocols... the web really seems to be splitting into apps, and it&#x
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by shahar2k 13y ago
I've had recent issues with the pc (dev) version of chrome and most of these (talky, opentok and vline specifically) just freeaing eventually... although I have to say I do love that they exist at all, and they work fantastically on an
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by shahar2k 13y ago
Is this kind of platform possible with WebRTC? (where the files are hosted on the users' computers instead of requiring your own servers?)
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by shahar2k 13y ago
there is a donation link on this page, but the content is stolen from www.zenpencil.com very blatantly.
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by shahar2k 13y ago
autonomous cars mean people can be on the internet while driving.

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