kizito

VFX & 3D artist

[Rebel in Chief @kennedy_artist]

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On this one we pushed the new Metahuman character tech to the absolute limit and the results are phenomenal.
Watch it here https://t.co/5xytLDCryW

Tools: @UnrealEngine

[kizito @Kizito_FX]

@WRadigo not same person

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Kane Parsons has revealed that Blender played an integral part in developing the ‘BACKROOMS’ movie.

• Concept art was developed entirely in Blender

• Blender was used to make set designs before they were brought to life physically

[kizito @Kizito_FX]

@RT_com

[Chris Pimentel @cpimentelart]

For fans of animation: things you should know regarding this leak from avatar. This is my experience being on Invincible when we had only our designs leaked. JUST DESIGNS. Not even full animation.
It’s terrible for the entire team from top down on the project.
Here’s why…

[KaizerRev @Kaizerrev]

Nick Fuentes reacts to Trump saying "Praise be to Allah" on Easter Sunday.

"Everything about this is disturbing.. This is when you realize Trump is Evil."

[Iran Embassy SA @IraninSA]

Stone Age?
At a time when you were still in caves searching for fire, we were inscribing human rights on the Cyrus Cylinder.

We endured the storm of Alexander and the Mongol invasions and remained; because Iran is not just a country, it is a civilization.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Disney has cancelled their deal with OpenAI.

They planned to invest $1 billion into the company and let Sora have access to AI generate videos of characters from Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars.

(Source: https://t.co/9q8u5VtqZE)

[kizito @Kizito_FX]

@soraofficialapp Good riddance!

[Sora @soraofficialapp]

We’re saying goodbye to the Sora app. To everyone who created with Sora, shared it, and built community around it: thank you. What you made with Sora mattered, and we know this news is disappointing.

We’ll share more soon, including timelines for the app and API and details on preserving your work. – The Sora Team

[Hugo Guerra @HugoCGuerra]

This is terrible news. I hope everyone manages to find a job soon. Sony just acquired Pixomondo in 2022, why buy them just to close them down after only 4 years? What a waste of talent and creativity. Pixomondo has made amazing VFX work for decades.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Warner Bros. spent $1.2 billion to make all eight Harry Potter films. The new TV series reportedly costs $100 million per episode, which would make it the most expensive TV show ever produced. Amazon’s Rings of Power cost $58 million per episode. House of the Dragon, $20 million. Game of Thrones started at $6 million.

HBO has planned seven seasons, one for each book, eight episodes per season. That’s 56 episodes. If the per-episode budget holds, the total production cost lands around $5.6 billion. Nearly 5x what all eight original films cost to make, and roughly three-quarters of what the entire franchise has earned at the box office ($7.7 billion) across 25 years.

Three weeks ago, Paramount Skydance signed a deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery for $31 per share, valuing the company at $110 billion including debt. Netflix was bidding too but walked away in late February. Harry Potter sits next to Game of Thrones and the DC Universe as one of the most valuable assets in that deal.

WBD has about 132 million Max subscribers today and is projecting 150 million by December. The original films returned almost 7x their production budget at the box office. Generating that kind of return through monthly streaming subscriptions requires a completely different scale of audience, sustained over a decade.

They’re reportedly building a “mini city” in the UK specifically for filming, with a price tag around $1.3 billion. A school is being constructed on-site for the child actors. Hans Zimmer is scoring the series. Over 30,000 kids auditioned for three roles.

The average Harry Potter film cost $144 million to produce. A single episode of the new series reportedly costs $100 million. Warner Bros. is betting over $5 billion that a streaming franchise can match what a theatrical one did.

[80 LEVEL @80Level]

Sony Pictures Entertainment is shutting down @Pixomondo, an Oscar- and Emmy-winning VFX and virtual production studio that worked on Game of Thrones, House of the Dragon, The Boys, and other projects.

Sony acquired Pixomondo in 2022: https://t.co/34YIou7caB

[Julian @julian_b3]

some work from jjk 51

[Meme.blend @meme_blend]

110-year-old Turkish grandma shares her secret to a long life:

"I never learned Weight Painting"

[PUCK: @Puck_254]

Hahaha

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Sure, your eyes aren’t tricking you. That clip looks better than the new trailer, and the reason has nothing to do with talent. The VFX supervisor on Amazing Spider-Man 2 in 2014? Jerome Chen. The VFX supervisor on Brand New Day? Also Jerome Chen. Same person. Completely different system around him.

In 2014, Chen had 50 effects artists at Sony Imageworks, the largest VFX crew the studio had ever put on a single project. They handled about 1,000 of the film’s 1,600 VFX shots on a $255 million budget. The crew shot on real film (not digital), on location in actual New York City, scanned Times Square with 36,000 photographs of over 100 billboards, and built physical lighting rigs on set so the CGI would match the real world.

Now look at how Marvel makes Spider-Man movies. No Way Home had 2,500 VFX shots spread across 12 studios and about 3,000 artists. The budget was $200 million, $55 million less than TASM2 despite having 56% more VFX shots. Digital Domain, one of the VFX vendors, was delivering final shots days before the December 17, 2021, release. They kept reworking shots into mid-January, after the movie was already in theaters.

Zoom out, and the math gets worse. Marvel released 6 films between 2008 and 2012. From 2023 to 2025, they pushed out 7 films and 7 TV shows. The Hollywood union representing VFX workers reported that Marvel pays artists about 20% below industry average and staffs one person where other studios hire three. Artists described 64-hour weeks and breakdowns on the job. Then, in February 2025, Technicolor, the parent company of MPC (three-time Oscar winner for Life of Pi, The Jungle Book, and 1917), collapsed almost overnight. 4,500 jobs gone globally. The studio had been actively working on Disney and Paramount films when the lights went out.

Brand New Day has four months before release, and trailers routinely show unfinished shots. But the gap between a 2014 Spider-Man and a 2026 Spider-Man has nothing to do with technology going backwards. The industry has been asked to do three times the work for less money per shot while its biggest studios are going under.

[Jalex @JalexRosa]

took like 1 month but its the best model I ever did

[Njuguna Mureithi @mureithi_me]

Kenyans are the tech GOATs:
- They trained ChatGPT.
- They run Meta AI.
- They run social medias moderation teams.
- They use the most admired mobile money platform
- They were doing PHD thesis papers for all before AI.

If we had good leadership, Singapore would want to be us.

[Rebel in Chief @kennedy_artist]

Mtu ataniambia touch grass tena anakula ngoto. I have the GRASS