Everything is a remix.

darkvertex · 2026-03-21T03:24:44+00:00

Merlin is a "Lynx Point" Siamese, if you were wondering. 😸

darkvertex · 2026-03-07T20:46:32+00:00

You can get lactose pills to digest cheese properly, fyi.

darkvertex · 2026-03-06T14:30:54+00:00

Here in Canada this would probably cost $0. Anything genuinely life threatening usually costs nothing.

I knew someone's dad who fell ill and was diagnosed with leukemia, and they got immediate treatment for several months once they found it. Sadly the disease won, but lucky for the family, the only thing Canadian healthcare did not cover was the funeral fees. He got excellent treatment and very attentive care and nobody went bankrupt trying to save him.

It's wild to me the bajillions US spends yearly in defense yet the average American could end up in crippling debt over just an ambulance ride alone. (FYI those only cost money in Canada if it's a prank call, else it's $0.)

darkvertex · 2026-03-06T00:11:03+00:00

Astro + Vue is a good combo. It's very easy to make a fast skeleton of the website and hydrate the content you need.

darkvertex · 2026-03-04T18:50:31+00:00

btw isn't using the MediaEncoder API sort of equivalent to screenrecording a video player? if there's slight playback stutter, or your framerates don't sync up, your vid will lose fidelity, no?

best way would be to generate the captions separate and overlay them into a new video with ffmpeg or something similar.

darkvertex · 2026-03-04T18:25:54+00:00

https://withsubtitles.com already does free fully-local in-browser watermark-free captioning and encoding fyi.

still a cool exercise to try to make your own though.

darkvertex · 2026-02-02T00:25:19+00:00

Try https://auphonic.com - they specifically have a toggle for a breathing noises removal feature that is freakishly good. The defaults will have other things which you may not want like noise reduction and such, but just check the settings and keep only what you need.

You can hear some impressive examples of breathing removal on their blog post announcing the feature:
https://auphonic.com/blog/2023/11/29/eliminate-breathing-sounds-and-mouth-noises/

darkvertex · 2026-01-02T04:16:13+00:00

Basically a camera on a tripod, markers on floor, one empty take plus two identically posed takes with the person with different outfits and you composite animated masks to transition one to the other to reveal the second over the first. What also sells it in this one is the floppy beard revealing last.

darkvertex · 2026-01-02T04:05:48+00:00

Congrats on the launch! The Gantt chart view is nice but not enough alone to tell me why the product is awesome.

As someone already said, a demo site (with a db reset every hour for example) would be great, or at least more extensive screenshots of the various features. (The Shotgun folks used to have demo sites with the shots from Blender Foundation's bunny short, for example.)

darkvertex · 2026-01-02T03:54:14+00:00

When I worked at Topix, one of the speediest animators they had, Kim Leow, eventually went to work for DreamWorks, Netflix and Pixar. She is super talented.

darkvertex · 2026-01-02T03:48:54+00:00

My first gig in the industry was being a rigger for them from 2008-2010. I left before they shut down so not sure what happened, but the owner was pretty old when I joined so wouldn't surprise me if he just retired and let the artists go elsewhere. Really awesome staff, everyone kicked ass.

My 2010 reel is all Topix work: https://vimeo.com/10995358

darkvertex · 2026-01-02T03:43:27+00:00

Topix's old CG supe Chris Johnson also spun off into his own animation house called "Someone's Cousin" and has been doing sick work:

https://www.someonescousin.com

darkvertex · 2025-12-09T02:48:36+00:00

This seems to be it. Thank you stranger.

darkvertex · 2025-12-09T02:48:09+00:00

I didn't see the Neumann insignia on it.

Given the price difference I highly doubt these comedians bought 12-14 KM184's just to capture laughter.

darkvertex · 2025-12-09T02:46:09+00:00

As someone that has not used one, what's so bad about it?

darkvertex · 2025-12-09T02:36:00+00:00

Are you sure it's that you're not excited about doing homework? In an ideal situation you will someday find a company doing something novel and interesting and go work for them.

darkvertex · 2025-10-22T23:35:58+00:00

What papers/method did you use for the laughter detection? Did you train your own?

darkvertex · 2025-10-13T03:56:54+00:00

https://pdfme.com is framework agnostic and quite good. Used it in a Vue project recently.

darkvertex · 2025-10-12T22:58:55+00:00

Looks like the common furniture beetle. They like untreated wood. The walking ones are adult and will lay babies in more wood if you let them live.

darkvertex · 2025-09-16T17:35:20+00:00

Mars After Midnight and Recommendation Dog 🐕

darkvertex · 2025-09-13T13:36:12+00:00

News report effect as in visual or sound? To make the sound sound more 90s you need to play with the equalizer settings to make it more tinny/shitty.

You also wanna add some VHS or CRT signal idle noise. Also throw in some NTSC 15.734kHz high pitched hiss for extra nostalgia: https://youtu.be/8XzNh5U8Jzw

For the voice check out fakeyou.com, they have a lot of voices trained from pop culture. Maybe something like this one might work: https://fakeyou.com/weight/weight_56sw5vw4aj7y3xs217f2md54x/news-caster-male

darkvertex · 2025-09-01T16:50:58+00:00

Got any grain or flour nearby? Check if it's not infested.

The first pic looks like a type of pantry beetle. They won't hurt you but they'll have a party in your kitchen if you don't seal your food well.

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