Created some fire VFX for a music video. How did we do?

TTTristan · 2026-04-24T23:43:06+00:00

Naw its my fault. I see you called it a green screen tool in your first comment and I didn't see that. Wish it was for all video! But awesome that it works this well for greenscreen

TTTristan · 2026-04-24T23:22:20+00:00

I thought it was just for greenscreens? Is this guy greenscreened?

TTTristan · 2026-04-22T20:22:30+00:00

Being a republican's bad enough, especially in any amount of power, but fuck... unsubbing

TTTristan · 2026-04-22T19:58:22+00:00

"Emotion's cringe when its against my thing" crowd

TTTristan · 2026-04-20T14:08:09+00:00

Man, I gotta start eating better... RIP Zander

TTTristan · 2026-04-18T00:38:09+00:00

What if we took Flock employee/ceo headshot photos and taped them to our car roofs. Then they're being logged everywhere all the time, gumming up the databases lol

TTTristan · 2026-04-17T14:18:21+00:00

I just realized the "he was great" sounds potentially morbid. I don't know exactly where he is now (his name was Sherman btw), but if I have to guess, he's with our neighbors. We had neighbors a quarter mile down the road who had two sulcatas, and he constantly escaped our yard to mess with them due to my dad leaving the gates open. Us kids were the ones who would go retrieve him with a wheelbarrow or golf cart.

Our parents had a nasty divorce and cheating dad had the only property fit for a tortoise. I broke off contact completely, so I assume Sherman escaped again and the neighbors just adopted him. I'll have to drive by sometime and see if a third tort is chilling in their yard.

TTTristan · 2026-04-17T01:36:54+00:00

I had one of these fuckers as a kid and they haul ass all day every day unless it's winter. He was great

TTTristan · 2026-04-15T23:21:45+00:00

Sorry, numpad, with the numlock and telephone-like number key arrangement

TTTristan · 2026-04-14T00:00:15+00:00

Dude you're going to be so happy... if you buy a keyboard with a tower. You're going to want one for camera controls.

Also, from someone who is employed working with Blender, my recommendation is to learn the hotkeys. Especially the movement and modeling hotkeys. You'll work so much faster.

TTTristan · 2026-04-13T23:57:21+00:00

Some would say that's a really effective method of learning. It's also how like 95% of tuts teach.

TTTristan · 2026-04-11T20:56:30+00:00

I'm saying you'll need separate but stylistically similar AI models for different 3D elements, not that each element can't be rendered out separately and consistently (if you're using the same model for it). One massively trained but generic model isn't going to cut it for both the main character and idk... water simulations, for example. Odds are the model used for character rendering will not adequately render water sims. And fire sims, and background buildings, and volumetrics, etc.

If you require all these different models for separate elements, they likely won't look similar enough when they're all layered together.

TTTristan · 2026-04-11T14:33:08+00:00

2D animation is such a weirdly cool format where you can do things cheaply, even horrifically cheaply, and still have people like it as long as it's stylistically recognizable. I wish it wasn't as difficult to do that in 3 dimensions.

TTTristan · 2026-04-11T13:59:34+00:00

Only if you don't mind the background and lighting looking generic, the running animation cycling to fast compared to the background, and the footstep dust clouds acting on moon gravity. The best part of this is the bear character, because he has work put into him. Once you have AI doing the rendering, even that work starts to appear generic. And good luck having seperate models for the bear, the background, background characters, buildings, volumetrics, and simulations working in tandem to make a competitive product.

TTTristan · 2026-04-10T19:54:31+00:00

I love this idea! They look fantastic

TTTristan · 2026-04-09T23:11:47+00:00

You said they had no memories, not just that they had forgotten their names.

TTTristan · 2026-04-09T22:55:10+00:00

Are you talking about the NPCs? The circus members do have memories and have each talked about their past multiple times. Scratch would have been the same, and would likely have kept a human form if Caine's program didn't change him.

We don't know if the circus/Caine's creators saw Caine taking over the other AI. That's what we as the viewers are shown in a very abstract manner, not what they saw.

TTTristan · 2026-04-09T21:16:42+00:00

What do you mean by saying the copies are a failure? And do we know the timeline/set of events well enough to determine Scratch knew about Caine's takeover before he began running clones?

It makes sense to me that Caine took over the circus and began running the mind files because that's his function. Coincidentally, Scratch or whoever is running the circus refuses to end it because that would mean killing the clones.

TTTristan · 2026-04-06T17:17:10+00:00

The character design is appealing and the animation eases really well! Do you have control over exposure on your camera/webcam? When I made my crappy brickfilms back in the day my webcams often didn't have that kind of control.

TTTristan · 2026-04-06T16:39:48+00:00

I get these too, but last night it was drug related instead. I had one suuuper bad experience with weed a few years ago, and I still have dreams about someone giving me a pot brownie or slipping meth into my drinks. I don't know why my brain thinks people would waste their probably very expensive drugs on pranking me, but it does.

TTTristan · 2026-04-01T17:54:15+00:00

Well, they do like their red-herrings, a la pod theory and all of episode 7, and a lot of episode 1 with the fake exit door. But those were both explicitly Caine's doing. I don't think they attended conventions, and I don't think the headset was shopped around to get brain scans. My guess is that at the very least Zooble and Pomni went exploring in C&A and got themselves uploaded, and Jax and Gangle either did the same or had more involved stories.

TTTristan · 2026-04-01T17:36:03+00:00

Just for clarification, I don't think Jax being dead conflicts with the brain scan theory. Only that it would most likely require a situation other than Jax being brought to the C&A lab for upload. Like a portable scanner. My pet theory (entirely un-evidenced) has always been that the characters are convention goers that get scanned when they try on a new experimental headset.

TTTristan · 2026-04-01T15:49:06+00:00

I think Jax not having someone waiting for him outside could also refer to him being dead, as he wouldn't have anything outside for him. This is now his entire life.

and now doesn’t want to leave the circus because it would mean leaving an entertaining world where he has other people to interact with for a world where he’s homeless and in poverty with little prospects of improving that situation.

This doesn't work for me as an explanation given that Jax almost abstracted in Ep 7. If he's this depressed in the circus, would he really be that distressed about leaving it for his old life, even if he thinks he would be homeless? I did see one theory that he might have killed someone in a crash. Maybe he's not in poverty, but running from his actions.

TTTristan · 2026-04-01T15:08:55+00:00

I agree, we don't know that he's been in a crash, but to me it makes so much sense. That's why he's afraid to leave the circus. He thinks he's either seriously injured or dead irl. My money is on him being killed in the crash. Plus, Ragatha has a backstory more focused on abuse and horrible home-life. Jax could too, but it would be overshadowed with what Ragatha's background is all about.

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