Matt Murch

Founder & Artist @DoubleMDigital Formerly @AlientrapGames @OpenDoorGameDev, @ISED_CA, @clartou He/Him, Opinions are my own

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

The Onion nails it again

[Yeah But Cyclists @but_cyclists]

Your frequent reminder that while cycling on pavements may appear to be far more common than driving on pavements, you are still statistically 100x more likely to be killed or seriously injured on a pavement by a motorist than by a cyclist.
https://t.co/fC4UXbrkqd

[Pilgrim @ArtOfPilgrim]

How many times did he try to get the car to stay beat up and empty before giving up and posting this? 😂😂

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

Generative ai has some uses but it's like if bicycles gave off more emissions than an airplane and also required you to steal the wheels from other people's vehicles

[Ali = Alison Stewart 🚲😎 @AlisonVStewart]

👇🏼Toronto’s Lakeshore Blvd needs this treatment. #TOpoli #ONpoli

[Richie Floyd @richiejfloyd]

There is research published on this topic, but it is purposely ignored by people who simply do not want their class interests threatened

[Rassoul Edji @RassoulEdji]

In my opinion the greatest Dragon ever put to film is Smaug from the Hobbit franchise by WetaFX. It is the most real looking and feeling Dragon I have ever seen.

The incredible team at Weta spent a lot of time iterating and developing the character to make it what it is in the final film, even changing his design after the first film was released with a small snippet of Smaug in his previous form (they went back and re-rendered that snippet for the digital release of the first film to keep it consistent). He was changed from a 4-legged Dragon to his final form which is technically a Wyvern.

He was voice acted and given reference performance capture by Benedict Cumberbatch which proved to be helpful for the animators at Weta.

I have never worked on a Dragon before but it is definitely on my wish-list of creatures to work on one day as they are my favourite fantasy creatures.

I highly recommend taking a look at how he was made in the below links, it is truly inspirational the level of detail and craftsmanship that went into making him.

CREDITS & SOURCES:
Video snippets are from WetaFXs breakdown of Smaug:
https://t.co/mz95tBB6yF

Check out the full 3 part behind the scenes of how he was made from the Hobbit Appendices:

Part 1
https://t.co/SNzmrwL5gq

Part 2
https://t.co/vJgmKPRqZ7

Part 3
https://t.co/oGQ70otlvP

[Pacoco 🔜 Gamescom26 @PacocoArt]

The actual edges of your mesh are just a mere suggestion when handpainting✨

[Yeah But Cyclists @but_cyclists]

"The cycle lane is always empty!"

No it isn't. Bicycles are just so much more efficient at moving a single person that you don't even realise the cycle lane has moved eight times as many people as the lane of cars that you're sat stationary in.

[Jonathan Mills @Muinchille]

Years ago, in the 1990s, me and my boss were looking at a client's rental accounts. He asked was I sure about the mortgage repayments. I said I had checked them with the bank. "They can't be less than the rent," he said, "That never happens. Not on a 90% mortgage." Seems like...

[Sanctus @Sanctus_Art]

My procedural version of the wrap film

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

Appointing a guy with billions of dollars of government contracts to have this level of control over the government is perhaps the most corrupt thing in the history of the federal government. Indefensible.

[Victor Shi @Victorshi2020]

Never forget: Kevin McCarthy said, “I'll give you the truth why I'm not speaker. It's because one person, a member of Congress, wanted me to stop an ethics complaint because he slept with a 17-year-old.” That member is Matt Gaetz.

[Marissa D. Barrera @mdb2]

FYI we don’t need a Department of Government Efficiency. We already have one.

@USGAO - the Government Accountability Office (GAO, est. 1921) - saves $133 for every $1 of funding it receives! If all GAO recommendations were implemented, the financial benefit could be >$200 bil.

[Jeremy Appel @JeremyAppel1025]

Wildly inappropriate for the Leader of Opposition to call for a principal to be fired.

But it’s also telling that he finds playing a song from a Palestinian artist calling for peace to be a fireable offence.

[officialhambly she/they @officialhambly]

Piggybacking on this to also include stop asking ChatGPT to summarize research when you can literally just read the summarized version of research on the front page research journals

[Robert Barron, III @_RCB3]

The reason most ppl are cynical about politics in this country is this.

He was the CEO of a company that defrauded Medicare, Medicaid, and other fed. programs. His company got 14 felony convictions. Fined over $2 billion.

No arrests.