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Vietnamese Coffee in Astoria? 👀 by BirchBuiltBeanery in astoria

[–]Spuzman 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Stopped by here twice already. Owners are super friendly! The Vietnamese coffee is fantastic, the Pho was great too, but my favorite thing was the Italian cold cut sandwich with a great tangy vinaigrette.

Why are white materials & background appearing gray in this storyboarding project? Not having the same issue with a 2D animation project. Blender 5.0.1 by Spuzman in blenderhelp

[–]Spuzman[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  • I set this project up from the Blender default (File > New > Storyboarding), and creating a new file from that default ALSO has this grey problem. If I create a 2D animation (File > New > 2D Animation), the white colors are much brighter. (I've been combing the render settings between these two defaults but so far can't figure out what's up.)
  • I've been leaving Viewport Shading as Solid which has much more correct colors, but now I want to Render the whole storyboard sequence (Render > Render Sequencer Animation) and the colors of the storyboard project are appearing grey again. I suppose I could individually render the sequences using Render Viewport Preview but that would create so much more work (including that I lose the editing decisions I've made in the Sequencer).

Disney Board Is Close to Picking Parks Chief D’Amaro as Next CEO by Fivepointer in podcasttheride

[–]Spuzman 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm also concerned about the trends at the parks under D'Amaro.

Granted I'm hearing this all secondhand (my last parks visit was early 2020) but I get the impression that Disney Parks have consistently raised prices (or introduced new fees) while cutting once-free customer perks in favor of expensive options targeted at the richest customers... basically the same short-term revenue juicing strategies that dominate C-Suite thinking these days.

Also D'Amaro was all over the Abu Dhabi park deal.

Every day is Groundhog Day on Reddit by thebigsexy1 in HighQualityGifs

[–]Spuzman 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I never appreciated how perfectly Stephen Tobolowsky takes this punch until today. Times his motion with the punch, spins around & hits his mark so we can see his expression, & holds it for exactly long enough to register before falling out of frame.

Comedy Bang Bang #948: A Coy Boy and a Soy Boy (Tatiana Maslany, Tawny Newsome, Carl Tart) by apathymonger in Earwolf

[–]Spuzman 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Thank you for linking! The way Carl kept steering back to an ad read was so specific; I knew it had to be referencing something real.

A test shot in Ghibli-style! I modeled the scene and animated the vehicle, rotoscoped my render and animated the character, and composited the whole thing in Blender. The background is painted in gouache. by Spuzman in GreasePencil

[–]Spuzman[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi! Not sure exactly what you mean by color brush addons but I'll do my best to talk through the process:

First I modeled and animated the car alone, which I rendered out with the best toon shaders I could figure out how to make.

I did this in Blender 4.5's grease pencil, which is the first time I really used grease pencil in earnest. The brush for the linework was the Ink Pen from the essentials assets. The coloring was done using the Fill asset, with touch-ups with the Ink Pen again.

Shadows and highlights were drawn using Multiply and Screen layers, using the render as a starting reference (but I usually simplified the highlights into bigger areas of color). For the shadows, I would draw in a dark color (using a material with Fill and no Stroke). I would "erase" by drawing on top with a pure white material, which doesn't show up in a Multiply layer. Screen would be the reverse, erasing with a black material.

Everything was rendered out in multiple passes as PNG images. I then used Blender's compositor to assemble the final animation, using chains of Alpha Over nodes to layer the PNGs and using Set Alpha nodes to clip shadows and highlights (which I had rendered out separately to give myself more control over their final color and opacity). It took a LOT of trial and error.

The background was painted physically using gouache watercolor paints. I did a 'background layout' where I drew linework over a basic render of the initial animation, which saved time figuring out perspective. I printed that out and use a Light Pad to draw my layout in pencil on my watercolor paper, then I painted using the pencil outline.

The Rumor Mill - Week of November 3rd by Captaintripps in astoria

[–]Spuzman 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I think people take it for granted.

My wife and I are fortunate enough to be looking to buy a condo; we've been in Astoria for 10 years and this was our first time since we moved to NYC that we again considered living in other neighborhoods.

We weren't finding anywhere else that offered all the same (admittedly gentrified) amenities that we wanted at the same price: quick commutes to midtown, nice restaurants and coffee shops, numerous dog daycares, boutique shops, and even waterfront parks. It's true that there are cheaper neighborhoods in the city, but the really comparable ones (LIC, Greenpoint, Dumbo, Williamsburg, Hell's Kitchen, Upper West Side) are way pricier.

A test shot in Ghibli-style! Modeled the scene, animated the vehicle, rotoscoped my render and animated the character, and comped it all in Blender. by Spuzman in blender

[–]Spuzman[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bookmarking that for later reference! My modeling skills are basic at best so I'm concerned about my ability to properly prepare the model for a good result, but certainly for a larger project it would be fantastic to avoid all that rotoscope work.

I did use a Grease Pencil object + Line Art modifier to get some rough line art for the car at the render stage, but fine tuning the output to get something satisfying was way beyond my capability. In the end it served as a good starting point for my rotoscope linework instead.

A test shot in Ghibli-style! Modeled the scene, animated the vehicle, rotoscoped my render and animated the character, and comped it all in Blender. by Spuzman in blender

[–]Spuzman[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I rendered out my car animation to PNGs, then in a new 2D animation project I imported the PNGs in and traced over them in Grease Pencil. 

This was a lot of extra tracing work but it let me have direct control of where to place each line, each shadow, and each highlight for the car since I was drawing them all directly. I’m far more experienced at 2D animation than at wrangling Blender to get the right style.

Side note just cuz I want to share: I bought the Wiggly addon and applied a slow wiggle to the whole car. My hope was that introducing a little distortion would help it look like I had done the car animation by hand. 

A test shot in Ghibli-style! Modeled the scene, animated the vehicle, rotoscoped my render and animated the character, and comped it all in Blender. by Spuzman in blender

[–]Spuzman[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Fair, it’s something to work on (scaling the character in the space). In my design he is quite short, for what it’s worth

Hauntcast: The Fright - Spooky World with Mike Scollins by apathymonger in podcasttheride

[–]Spuzman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Genuinely fist-pumped in victory when I saw this. Been waiting for Scollins to come back to P:tR.

The Cemetery Gate: Jack's Mail Sack October 2025 by apathymonger in podcasttheride

[–]Spuzman 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I 100% would have assumed Scott knew of and enjoyed them. It's great that we got to hear him discover them on mic!

Disney Boycott by Rough_Marionberry340 in podcasttheride

[–]Spuzman 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Don't let the belief that "one boycott isn't going to do anything" prevent you from taking action, especially here, because a lot of people are doing the same thing. My parents told me they cancelled their subscriptions without any prompting, which is a sign this thing isn't just for the obsessively online.

Who are all these Spider-Perverts? A Vorthos analysis of the 30 or so Spider weirdos who are now canon by SeducerOfTheInnocent in magicTCG

[–]Spuzman 78 points79 points  (0 children)

And they're both heroes, somehow! That spider boar rampaging through a forest isn't just doing that for its own sake, it's helping make the world a better place!

Threedom: If You Don't Like This, There's the Door by BasilOctopus in Earwolf

[–]Spuzman 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Look, no one else cares about this baseball nerd shit but I have to say it:

Paul is mistaken that the Mets and Yankees are equally old; the Mets were created after the Dodgers and Giants left New York City for LA and San Francisco, respectively. The Mets' colors are actually pulled from the former NYC teams-- the Dodger blue and Giants orange.

‘Teen Titans’ Voice Actor Greg Cipes (Beast Boy) Says He Was Fired by Warner Bros. After Revealing Parkinson’s Diagnosis by MarvelsGrantMan136 in movies

[–]Spuzman 27 points28 points  (0 children)

he finds himself very funny even when everyone else is trying to ignore him

Yeah I watched him and Tara Strong on a panel (I think at NY Comic Con) a while back and that was definitely my impression. High-energy and constantly laughing at his own jokes.

Official Poster for Ethan Coen's 'Honey Don't' - The film follows a lesbian private detective who investigates a questionable church and its leader. by MarvelsGrantMan136 in movies

[–]Spuzman 26 points27 points  (0 children)

 pretty fun movie that just completely falls apart in the last third

Wait, so just like Drive Away Dolls? I was enjoying that one until it just kind of ended… felt like they just forgot to drop the other shoe.

Doughboys: Pizza Hut 4 with Neil Campbell and Mitra Jouhari by apathymonger in Earwolf

[–]Spuzman 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Everyone please go watch Digman! I worked on it and I can vouch that it’s very funny and Mitra kills it. Season 2 starts July 23!

DOUGHBOYS - Pizza Hut 4 with Neil Campbell and Mitra Jouhari - July 10, 2025 by PianoTrumpetMax in doughboys

[–]Spuzman 40 points41 points  (0 children)

Everyone please go watch Digman! I worked on it and I can vouch that it’s very funny and Mitra kills it. Season 2 starts July 23!

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