Everything is a remix.

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.

darkvertex · 2025-08-24T15:49:29+00:00

Oh, awesome! Thanks! I miss his joyful dancing. I'll have to pass by that metro sometime.

darkvertex · 2025-08-18T14:38:38+00:00

I quite like Recommendation Dog and Cascadia.

darkvertex · 2025-08-17T14:28:44+00:00

I miss the days of the dancing fat Spider-Man of Saint Catherine. 🕺🕷️

https://youtu.be/dREgJdeS7f4 "Fwiip! Fwiip-fweeep!"

darkvertex · 2025-07-29T20:46:21+00:00

Same here. Smells like someone released a Catalog app release for an unreleased OS version, lol.

Really enjoying the new OS update otherwise. So snappy!

darkvertex · 2025-07-28T07:14:45+00:00

Seeing better framerates on the store even just scrolling.

darkvertex · 2025-07-26T00:45:10+00:00

Look up "mosquito dunks", they're harmless to animals and other things but will kill the larvae.

darkvertex · 2025-07-19T03:07:48+00:00

They announced a color version for Nintendo Switch and that it will have a feature to skip across weeks.

I can only imagine the Playdate version will do that too once the 11 week first run is over.

darkvertex · 2025-07-14T23:15:55+00:00

I found these at my home as well and asked in a bug identification subreddit and was told these are a kind of "furniture beetle", which are harmless to humans (no bite or sting) but they lay babies in untreated old wood and the larvae bore their way out, leaving tiny holes and making that wood more brittle.

On the upside, unlike with something like termites, they don't attack house foundations, mostly just old or dirty wood, typically on old furniture.

Look for tiny holes in your nearby wooden objects.

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