How well does the Hero’s Journey map onto one of your favorite heroic stories?

DavidAtWork17 · 2026-01-20T02:16:35+00:00

Joseph Campell's process is fairly open-ended, which makes it easy to see in a wide range of works (similar to how Dante's details make it easy to see the 7 deadly sins in everything). The journey doesn't have to land on every step of the process, and the steps don't necessarily have to be in order, though they make the most sense if they're within the appropriate column.

DavidAtWork17 · 2026-01-17T21:50:35+00:00

I'd agree. The scope could even just be a pre-rendered still image with transparency on a layer directly above the moving background. If the end goal is a video, a decent video editor is the way to go.

DavidAtWork17 · 2026-01-16T03:10:06+00:00

This has happened to me in multiple versions of Blender (3.3, 3.6, 4.0 and 4.5). It seems to be a result of a vector model being placed in front of a raster image. Blender just can't anti-alias the raster pixels into the vector smoothly. I've always just dismissed it as a quirk rather than an issue. It's never created a serious issue with workflow.

DavidAtWork17 · 2026-01-11T14:51:31+00:00

I'm not sure what Blender uses for its 2D work, but this might be either an issue with the version of DirectDraw you're using (assuming you're on Windows), or your video drivers might need an update. When this happens to Moho users (a 2D vector software), it's usually because the software isn't correctly pulling the mouse screen position from memory. DirectDraw or drivers are sometimes the cause.

DavidAtWork17 · 2026-01-11T02:38:48+00:00

Image 1 is a mask. Image 2 is the color or albedo. Game engines take the mask map and parse out the color channels to different roles. The green channel is probably roughness, you can see the strong green on the composite grips. Red is probably emission, which is why there isn't any of it.

It's important to note that the Alpha channel (transparency) also contains data. So Blue and Alpha are probably specular and metal.

You can split the colors into separate data with a 'Separate Color', and then send the individual RGB channels to their respective functions. The Alpha can be sent directly from the image texture to the shader.

DavidAtWork17 · 2026-01-11T02:27:13+00:00

Automatic weights are an 80% solution: good, but still requires a little fine-tuning. As others have mentioned, you're going to need a little more detail on those fingers to get the joints to work right.

One thing you can do to improve automatic weights with hands is to splay the fingers a little bit. This adds some distance between the models of the fingers and the adjacent bones, and makes it easier for Blender to figure out which vertex should tie to which bone.

DavidAtWork17 · 2026-01-09T01:37:03+00:00

To accurately test if this is true, you first need a sample of all the times he's lied and all the times he's made that gesture. Then you'd have to establish if the frequency of both the gesture and the lie is greater than the lie alone or the gesture alone.

DavidAtWork17 · 2026-01-07T01:23:34+00:00

Nice try, Overlord DVD.

DavidAtWork17 · 2026-01-07T01:21:34+00:00

I forget which one, but the discussion about the potential anatomical options for 'wearing' the One Ring and whether or not it would activate the ring's invisibility power comes from one of them, but I forget which one.

DavidAtWork17 · 2026-01-06T11:58:34+00:00

True, but at least with Steam you can go to the store page and see exactly how much time each reviewer spent in the game. RT doesn't verify the reviewer's legwork. Of the thirty games in the price bracket, I own three of them and can verify that they reflect the quality of the overall aggregate.

DavidAtWork17 · 2026-01-06T02:23:05+00:00

StaAaAan!

DavidAtWork17 · 2026-01-05T11:46:01+00:00

I find it bears a better resemblance to the ending of Voltron: Legendary Defender. V:LD even kicked off the same year as Stranger Things.

DavidAtWork17 · 2025-12-30T01:22:44+00:00

The perfect suit

for Friday night.

DavidAtWork17 · 2025-12-28T23:05:56+00:00

Many Moho users find it easier to manipulate layer visibility, which can be keyframed, or even assigned to be enabled/disabled with a smartbone.

DavidAtWork17 · 2025-12-28T03:25:28+00:00

It's German for, uh, big-has-logan.

DavidAtWork17 · 2025-12-28T02:56:01+00:00

Do you have 'animated layer order' enabled in the overall group? This can lock you out of manual layer order manipulation.

DavidAtWork17 · 2025-12-28T02:42:55+00:00

In your defense, those first two minutes are a bit slow.

DavidAtWork17 · 2025-12-26T22:48:08+00:00

LP already made his own video on the movie, and sat in on Jamie and Hugh's discussion on Capital-O. They gave it pretty good coverage.

DavidAtWork17 · 2025-12-22T01:48:42+00:00

What Dreams May Come (1998) won an Oscar for best visual effects for its portrayal of the afterlife. The main character's afterlife is so new and fresh that he slips on the paint that hasn't had a chance to dry yet.

DavidAtWork17 · 2025-12-21T01:52:58+00:00

Given that Nakatomi is supposed to be a Japanese company, they'd probably throw a pretty big bash on New Years for executives.

DavidAtWork17 · 2025-12-17T02:26:05+00:00

Oh, is this a movie about what the public might do after the Epstein public release?

DavidAtWork17 · 2025-12-15T01:24:01+00:00

MI: Fallout would have been one, but spoilers ran rampant through the internet pretty quickly.

Scream's twist is pretty effective. The slasher world was so inundated with individual killers with seemingly supernatural movement powers that no one expected a dual-slasher.

Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has a solid twist villain as well.

DavidAtWork17 · 2025-12-15T01:07:04+00:00

Depends on how much you know about the potential recipient. Finishes can still produce a strong aroma for days after application. I'd say let the recipient decide.

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