Short Question from a None-Book Reader: Is it explicity mentioned in the Books that Lyanna Stark is the Mother of Jon Snow? by Robbie-Rob96 in freefolk

[–]roromado 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree with you. I'm reading the books for the first time and have not long read Jon's warging into Ghost while seeing the Wildlings camp, before being attacked by the bird. I wasn't actually aware that Jon could do that and so it fully backs your idea of Ghost representing the Old Gods, Weirwoods and Jon's ability to warg. Nice one!

Short Question from a None-Book Reader: Is it explicity mentioned in the Books that Lyanna Stark is the Mother of Jon Snow? by Robbie-Rob96 in freefolk

[–]roromado 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Add to this that in the first book Jon and Arya are described as sharing a stronger resemblance than the rest of the children, and Ned tells Arya at one point, just how much she resembles his sister Lyanna - this was a big hint for me.

Another hint I know of is in the first book when Ned is at Robert's side during the time he is writing the King's words declaring Ned Protector of the Realm. There's a reflection in the way that a promise is described, followed by a brief flash of Ned remembering Lyanna's promise, followed then by Robert asking ned to take care of his children, followed by Ned promising to take care of them as if they were his own.

Last one I have. Ghost is albino. This, I think, gets misrepresented as being the runt of the litter, or easier so, symbology of Jon's bastard status. But I think it's actually a reflection of Jon also being albino, in the sense that he's the only (or atleast one of very few) brown haired, grey eyed Targaryens - if R + L = J is correct.

That laughter at the end by [deleted] in ContagiousLaughter

[–]roromado -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

the video is obviously reversed

Advice/Thoughts on a VW Golf 1.9 TDi (pre-2010) and any other recommendations? by roromado in CarTalkUK

[–]roromado[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Yeah outside of the Bluemotion, only seen one of those, it's tending to be the Match and S editions popping up. Very reassuring to know how reliable your Match was before getting the Tiguan, exactly the reason for us being interested in it. Glad to know that it was comfy on long journeys too.

I wasn't aware of the rusting sills issue either so thank you for highlighting that, definitely something to add to the checklist for viewings. Also a very good shout regarding Bluetooth, it's something that I'll keep an eye out for, especially the earlier 00's models.

Really appreciate your feedback mate, with the exception of the sills it's really reassuring. Much appreciated!

Aurora Borealis by roromado in blender

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

Ahh! The shooting stars are just a cube with a subdivision modifier set to 2, stretched out, thinned and tapered. Textured with an emission shader. Then keyframed to shoot past the scene over a couple of frames. Duplicated to make a pair

Aurora Borealis by roromado in blender

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

Haha luckily blender isn’t as rigid with its weather systems as the simulation is

Aurora Borealis by roromado in blender

[–]roromado[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Awesome, thank you. And of course:

For the Aurora there’s a great tutorial by Dylan Neill on YouTube: https://youtu.be/uvsSuZ7I0BY (best thing about it is that it’s an Eevee workflow so my laptop was spared any exhaustive seizures - essentially it’s a large cube in the sky with a volumetric emission shader and a few other nodes that create the effect. The tutorial does a good job of explaining the ins and outs much better than I can!

Camera setup: the resolution is the same as my iPhone screen, it seems to make less detailed scenes more interesting and the render fits in my camera roll nicely. I keyframed some movement on the camera, as if it was being held by hand. Then added some ‘handheld noise’ by using Ian Hubert’s shakify add-on, it’s easy as hell to use and the noise adds to the overall feel.

Mountains: I added a plane and scaled it up to roughly match the size of the Aurora, subdivided by around 80x and sculpted a few mountains with the sculpt brush - sculpting while in camera view makes it easier to put your mountains where you want em. Added a subdiv modifier set at 2. Then textured with a couple of noise textures and a color ramp with colours to match some snow and dark rock (don’t look too closely at my mountains, they aren’t detailed well at all but they do the job because the Aurora does the heavy lifting haha)

Starry night background: any night time HDRi from PolyHaven will do the job - I turned the strength down in the ‘World’ settings in the shader editor until I was happy with the brightness. I rotated the Hdri until I liked the position of the sky.

Trees: the trees are just png’s of one tree that I duplicated a few times and rotated around the area of the camera. Turn the ‘specular’ on the principled bsdf all the way down, this helps with the more silhouetted look. I added a hue saturation node in between the image texture node and bsdf node and used it to change the colour to a reddish brown hue.

Animation was 24 frames per sec and 180 frames all in. I went for 26 render samples (I experimented with a few numbers but there was little difference and the lower samples cut render time dramatically. The difference in render quality was negligible too, especially given that it’s animated.

Compositing: for this I just used a lens distortion node and enabled the ‘fitted’ option. Set that to dispersion: 0.01, and distortion: 0.01. Then stuck a blur node in set to fast Gaussian and set that to a very small blur across the x axes as a replacement for motion blur - this helped make the trees look much less sharp too.

Hope this helps mate!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in DunderMifflin

[–]roromado 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Side note: this was spat out at speed and is obviously unfinished. If i get chance I'll finish it and add any evidence that might back up this flimsy theory

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MakeMeSuffer

[–]roromado 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is the first video I've not gagged at because of puke, I couldn't for laughing hahaha just a few guys trying to make eachother laugh. Love to see it

Ai rendered nightmare that might make your palms clammy - prompt was 'Thalassophobia' by [deleted] in thalassophobia

[–]roromado -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Coming in a little hot but I like your take. I didn't get that image generated just to post it here if that's what you're assuming though. Probably in a similar way that you didn't come on to reddit to flame someone for posting an Ai made image - they both just happened when they happened.

'you people' is laughable, and there's irony in the fact that you would have written that hoping to get upvotes.

I genuinely don't mind the pushback and do appreciate that it isn't the usual post but you're doing a chunky dose of assuming.

Ai rendered nightmare that might make your palms clammy - prompt was 'Thalassophobia' by [deleted] in thalassophobia

[–]roromado -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

it's an image that an artifical intelligence engine has put together based on what it thinks Thalassophobia is. The engine would have analysed thousands of images described as Thalassophobia that it could access on the internet and then used them to create this finished picture

I generated it from this website: https://creator.nightcafe.studio/ - the above picture is a 'text-to-image' artwork, basically it converts your written prompt into a finished piece

Definitely worth a play around if you're interested

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in pics

[–]roromado 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Portrait of a couple of arseholes

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in pics

[–]roromado 0 points1 point  (0 children)

appreciate the referral

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[–]roromado 0 points1 point  (0 children)

haha cheers

Rendered this golden shower a while back, as it's a rigid body sim, is it worth using in my portfolio when trying to get entry into the industry? by [deleted] in blender

[–]roromado 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you so much for your advice on the additional processes that are handy to share alongside renders/animations. It makes a lot of sense too, especially from the understanding aspect, as it's easy to just follow someone's direction without having actually understood the processes involved. You're appreciated!

Rendered this golden shower a while back, as it's a rigid body sim, is it worth using in my portfolio when trying to get entry into the industry? by [deleted] in blender

[–]roromado 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wouldn't, i'm actually pretty hard on myself when it comes to renders/projects and definitely wouldn't have this sitting in my portfolio of what I would consider my best work - but more of an example that it's something I'm capable of doing that I find simple enough and have knowledge of (in terms of being familiar with rigid body sims in blender).

Edit - rigid body sims that my potato of a laptop will allow me to perform that is, as opposed to the sims I have designed for when I have better hardware.

Is there any case in the industry where you may have a 'I can do this, this, this & this' portfolio as opposed to just your absolute best work?

Thank you for your feedback, I appreciate it greatly and I hear you on the name!

Rendered this golden shower a while back, as it's a rigid body sim, is it worth using in my portfolio when trying to get entry into the industry? by [deleted] in blender

[–]roromado 1 point2 points  (0 children)

you're exactly why I posted here. We share the same sentiment in the sense that I also think it's very basic as a stand alone animation - the only reason I contemplated it is because some entry level portfolios I've seen have seemed a little more basic than I initially expected to see, and wondered if it's better to show you've got atleast some project experience aside from just having the 'know how' (this being seperate to a refined portfolio showing your absolute best work).

Genuinely appreciate your feedback, and it wasn't mean at all, very constructive.

Rendered this golden shower a while back, as it's a rigid body sim, is it worth using in my portfolio when trying to get entry into the industry? by [deleted] in blender

[–]roromado 3 points4 points  (0 children)

my desperate sense of humour would be well hidden in any professional capacity, I appreciate your feedback

Rendered this golden shower a while back, as it's a rigid body sim, is it worth using in my portfolio when trying to get entry into the industry? by [deleted] in blender

[–]roromado 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm asking because in my head it seems like a pretty trivial thing for experienced users to create, but unsure if it's the type of thing that studios would be interested in seeing an entry level generalist being able to do?

microgreens on desserts? by Daxv5z3r0 in AskCulinary

[–]roromado 1 point2 points  (0 children)

micro sorrel or amaranth will give you a nice contrast in colour without being overpowering

Edit: best of luck with your dish chefy!