Mike Chambers

Community team at Adobe. Love creative coding, math, music, photography, games... dcli, DARCI, Redrix,

[Biwald @JosephBiwald]

Original concept art alongside the final Beyond Light teaser art I work on in 2020.

Beyond Light was an especially memorable project to be part of. It was our first @DestinyTheGame expansion developed during COVID, with the team working remotely, which brought a unique set of challenges. Even so, it remains one of my favorite expansions to have worked on, and this teaser art is still one of the pieces I'm most proud of.

Tonally, we were inspired by some of @sungchoiart early Europa concept work, particularly a concept of a Guardian at a campsite looking out toward the Pyramid. We wanted to capture the feeling of embarking on a solitary journey to a new moon and discovering the Darkness subclass Stasis for the first time.

I used this key art as an opportunity to focus heavily on the environmental rendering, making sure the frozen, icy landscape came through as a defining element. The final foreground was built using a combination of bespoke 3D modeling in Maya and advanced displacement maps in KeyShot, using textures from Quixel Megascans. The Pyramid ship and skybox in the background began as in-game screenshots that I captured from @Bungie skybox artist Mark Goldsworthy, which I then painted over and exaggerated in Photoshop.

I assembled the final image and completed all post-processing and finishing work in Photoshop. At 38,000 x 15,000 pixels, 300 dpi, it was one of the largest files I've ever created, built with the expectation that it could ultimately be printed as a large-scale wall piece or art print.

https://t.co/cbuPS4rYbf

[Mike Chambers @mesh]

@ittsui @norihiko0627 fyi, https://t.co/zoHO1Vb0ua

[Mike Chambers @mesh]

@aarondfrancis Do you have a rough estimate of the cost? Any particular model seem suited for this?

[Mike Chambers @mesh]

I just pushed an update to my adb-mcp project (MCP clients for Adobe Apps). This works around a crash with Premiere Pro on Windows (related to websockets). If you have the plugin installed and are using Premiere Pro on Windows, make sure to update to the latest version.

(Note, the crash occured when the plugin tries to connect to the proxy server).

More info here: https://t.co/fAA79PWYUZ

[Mike Chambers @mesh]

Just pushed an updated build to Ascendant, a Destiny 2 PVP dashboard for MacOS. Added support for Ash & Iron, Renegades, Monument of Triumph seasons, and fixed some API data issues with competitive matches.

https://t.co/Y7XLDledvs

[Luke Choice @velvetspectrum]

I created the Adobe Illustrator Field Notes inside Firefly Boards.

Intended to act as a central hub to capture all those tips and tricks, info and resources for anyone working in Illustrator. You can search Google when you know exactly what you need to solve, but this might introduce you to something unexpected.

Link to the Board in comment below (best viewed on desktop)

[Mike Chambers @mesh]

@zachlieberman Maybe the expectation is that designers won't be writing the code, the AI will, and code is just the glue between the AI and Canvas (which they expose because it's there).

[Luke Choice @velvetspectrum]

This is a fun one to explore how responsive Firefly Boards is with a crazy amount of images!

[Rufus Deuchler @rufusd]

A Thread > This week, I challenged my team to share how they use Firefly Boards in their creative workflows. We called it AllOnBoards!
A Board is a collaborative, infinite-canvas workspace in Adobe Firefly, built for creative ideation, mood boarding, storyboarding, and early-stage concept development. We all have stories to tell, and Boards is an incredibly powerful tool to do just that.

[Elise ✨ @Swopes]

Remember my video from last week that got so much love?! ❤️ (Thanks, again!) Here’s exactly how I made it, AllOnBoards, from a blank board to a finished video using @AdobeFirefly Boards start to finish.

Use this link to Remix your own on desktop! https://t.co/Zyoj00WQbG

[Mike Chambers @mesh]

Latest progress...

[Mike Chambers @mesh]

@realtron @Adobe Yeah, im having a lot of fun with it. Im hoping to have a build to share in a couple of weeks. Open to any ideas.

[Mike Chambers @mesh]

One of the (insane) benefits of working @adobe is that you get an extended sabbatical every 5 years. I am currently on my 5th! sabbatical, and my project is building a native MacOS creative programming app / framework. It provides a JavaScript-based API and is built on top of CoreGraphics with bitmap, vector, and video output built in.

I am mostly doing it to have something to work on, and plan to open-source it once it gets core functionality in but I wanted to share some early progress. I have attached an early version of the app and example script.

[Mike Chambers @mesh]

If you keep voting for the same people and same parties you will keep getting the same results.

[Kshama Sawant @cmkshama]

I'm running as an independent revolutionary socialist because we desperately need a working-class FIGHTER in Congress.

My main opponent, Democrat Adam Smith, just introduced a bill to fund OVER A TRILLION NEW DOLLARS for imperialist war. Concretely, that's a trillion more dollars for the billionaires to profit from killing thousands of more people in the Middle East.

The bill also includes a Section 224, entitled “United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative.”

If this goes through, it will fuse the U.S. and Israeli militaries such that Israel weapons funding would not even need any separate votes in Congress. Smith has introduced this bill in the context of the holocaust of the 21st century in Gaza and of the brutal wars on Lebanon and Iran.

Of course, Congressional votes are far from a guarantee against war for the simple reason that the Democratic and Republican parties are both warmongering representatives of U.S. capitalism. It was not long ago that 173 House Democrats, including 56 members of the so-called Congressional Progressive Caucus, voted for over $26B for the genocide in Gaza and to ban United Nations food assistance from Gaza.

Nonetheless, we should recognize that even at this stage, this bill presents a serious danger to working people in America, in the Middle East, and internationally.

The bill is horrific in ever sense. A trillion more dollars for war means more deaths of ordinary people and more profits for the global super-wealthy. On top of that, fusing the U.S. and Israeli military budgets would lead to far less transparency when already there is exceedingly little at present.

Even if this particular bill fails, there are at least THREE other similar bills in the pipeline. The capitalist class and both its parties are ruthlessly determined to do this.

Why?

Because they can see that American mass consciousness has dramatically shifted against Israel in particular, and against imperialist war in general. The Democrats and Republicans want to quickly get this done so so they can try to better hide their genocidal actions going forward.

I am using my campaign to fight against genocidal Democratic Congressman Adam Smith.

I am the only candidate in this race who is calling for an end to all military aid to the Israeli state, an end to all weapons and tech for genocide and imperialist war, and to stop data centers and AI-related mass layoffs.

I am the only candidate in this race fighting for free healthcare for all funded by taxing the rich and a living-wage jobs guarantee. I am the only candidate in this race with a track record of defeating the billionaires and multimillionaires and winning historic victories for working people.

Join our campaign at https://t.co/sh3zyhgTI7. Volunteer and donate.

[Howard Pinsky @Pinsky]

"Photoshop is transition from 5 percent to 100 percent GPU accelerated processing."

Lots of major performance improvements in the works for both Photoshop and Premiere 🔥

Announcement: https://t.co/8PT1WoMAdB

[Briahna Joy Gray @briebriejoy]

Advertising free public services is *so* smart. Too often Democrats refuse to do PR for how they're making peoples' lives better.

[Mike Chambers @mesh]

I just released an @aseprite script, that will skew the active selection into an isomorphic perspective (useful if you are doing isometric pixel art).

https://t.co/VxDTfFOxYi

The result may require some cleanup (especially curves), but it should make things a bit easier.

[Web Design Museum @WebDesignMuseum]

In May 1998, Macromedia released a vector graphics editor for creating interactive Macromedia Flash 3.0 web animations.

Flash 3.0 included new features such as vector & bitmap transparency, shape morphing, sprite animation

#WebDesignHistory

[John | Formfactor Design @johnny_lam_]

Webflow turn their loading bar into a light saber in celebration of May the 4th be with you!