Joel Thomas

Motion Designer at Amazon by day, triple goober berry sunrise by night.

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@Sekani__Solomon Amazing work as always

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But for real, though, why is there not a native font installer for the iPad?

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@zemotion Without stylization or transformation, the painter contributes little- not even the concept!
Meanwhile, you chose the model, the costume, the lighting, the pose, the lens, etc.
To any true artist, it is clear that the concept is your creation.
Unfortunately, people are ignorant

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@zemotion It’s ironic that a number of comments praise that “he actually painted something.” Clearly, they are not artists themselves. If they were, they’d know that copying (directly) from reference is the *easiest* way to paint.
The painter becomes merely a glorified copy-machine.

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@EdonGuraziu @boltondynamics I think there are boundary conditions. For example, a chef can feel proud of a home-made pizza even if he didn’t make the dough, but no one is going to be proud of putting a DiGiorno in the oven

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@eyedesyn First, artists needed to make “content” to improve their reach. Now, they’ll need to make content just to prove they made the work!

I’ve actually been seeing more people trying to pass off Ai generations as their own 3D renders, which has been disheartening

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@eyedesyn I also would like Ai to make camera tracking faster and better

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@getPlasticity would like to see a narrated version of this that says the tools/hotkeys used

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@RocketLasso Would love to see lessons on how to use Nodes from you 👌

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@key_vfx So satisfying 🤤

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@PeterTarka @wacom There’s a known bug with the Huion tablet’s use of the Wintab.dll driver that causes Redshift to crash nearly 100% of the time.
I’ve spoken with Maxon support- they haven’t been able to fix it since it doesn’t happen on every system (but when it does, it happens every time)

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@boltondynamics Why not work for some online education platform or use your skills outside the games industry?

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@MartinNebelong lol, it’s like an ai-powered “make me better at art” filter 😂

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@boltondynamics @_switz Requesting a follow-up thread on beveling/cleanup

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Fun little FUI experiment with help from @RocketLasso plugins

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Fun with leaves :-)

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Haven't uploaded here in a while

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@Jose_Molfino Man, I really gotta get into Houdini

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@boltondynamics Definitely would love to see more on the modeling operations to get to this level of detail. Surely there are techniques that make it faster

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@boltondynamics The details look great!