Mike Maxwell

founder. Expanded View digital arts creatives.

[Matty McTech @setupspawn]

Keep this a secret

[Jacktone Okore @j7369]

Not footage or Al. Every bubble here is simulated, and getting the carbonation to feel real was the hardest part of the shot.
The bubbles took a long stretch of R&D: how they cling under the foam, how they catch light up close, how a dense layer reads through glass without going muddy. At one point a whole band under the surface rendered dark because light was running out of bounces between overlapping bubbles. A lot of the work ended up being how the bubbles are rendered, not just how they're simulated.
Simulated in Houdini, rendered in Redshift.
Open to liquid and beverage FX projects. DMs are open.

[solarfren @solarfren69420]

Oh. My. God. They're reverse engineering Adobe Already https://t.co/gQOtjvdAdH @dhh @boneGPT @lexfridman

[Naman bhargava @NBhargava18]

Here are some use cases for Mixar:

1. You can create a scene in 3D and use the blockout as a reference for video generation.

[matt @mattknowsai]

THIS STARTUP FORKED BLENDER AND REBUILT IT AROUND AI AGENTS.

it's called Mixar.

you open a 3D scene and can:

→ tell an agent what to change directly inside the scene
→ generate 3D assets from references
→ retopologize, texture and clean assets
→ run multiple agents across different scenes
→ use 400+ AI models from one place

they forked Blender itself and are turning it into an agentic 3D platform.

[RPG Enjoyer 🐉 @BasedRPG]

DLSS 5 is the biggest leap in gaming tech we have had in years

[Ingi Erlingsson 🪄 @ingi_erlingsson]

faux real

[Mike Maxwell @JXCLONE]

@HorrorHammer1 Possibly the best animated pre cg integration ever filmed

[JO. Z @jojodecayz]

ComfyUI can now split a flat image into separate editable layers and hand you a PSD that opens straight in Photoshop. Thanks to Node 2.0.

The new layer nodes come from Terry (@jtydhr88) on our frontend team. A compositor editor is right in the graph, so you can arrange everything before you ever leave ComfyUI.

How it works:
- Run the Seedream 5.0 layer separation template in Comfy Cloud
- Add multiple images into the layers
- Arrange and composite them in the editor
- Export every layer to a PSD and keep editing in Photoshop

Built on nodes 2.0.

[Graalito @Graalitoo]

This whole mocap pipeline was built and is operated end-to-end by an AI agent.

Left: AI-generated video.
Right : automatic retarget onto a Mixamo rig in Blender real foot contact, zero manual keyframes.

Any Mixamo character.

Open source: https://t.co/cq58JxTVX5

#b3d #mixamo #mocap #vibecoding

[Mike Maxwell @JXCLONE]

working on projects in Comfy UI is making like a little easier for sure. A quick test generated in under a minute in Wan 2.2 and upscaled in nano tools

#animation #VFX #upscale #comfyui #workflow

[Arthur Munoz @MunozArthur1]

I like to spend some time upstream looking on the best way to prepare my game animation direction/vision.

It can be by prototyping my vision of the game or making easy rigs to play with.

From the technical side to the artistic side.

#animation #workflow #gamedev #game #3d

[Kurama Kageya 景谷 蔵馬 @kuramaKageya]

他にもこの方のページで、色々な知見がまとめられているので、大変勉強になります！

1. Mastering Materials: Noise
https://t.co/Ggf9JH4BEI

2. Breakdown Rust Material
https://t.co/F8xZBELNvT

3. The 10 Layers Strategy
https://t.co/DbE1bsA4k1

4. Desert Eagle
https://t.co/UhAQG4k4HT

[Mike Maxwell @JXCLONE]

Not even close

[gabriela trueba @gabriela_trueba]

We’re watching AI replace ray tracing in real time.

[Purz.ai @PurzBeats]

Flux 3 is pretty great.

[Chris Offner @chrisoffner3d]

GNM head model + MediaPipe face landmark tracking

[AI Bites | YouTube Channel @ai_bites]

MoLingo, a text-to-motion (T2M) model that generates realistic, lifelike human motion by denoising in a continuous latent space. Recent works perform latent space diffusion, either on the whole latent at once or auto-regressively over multiple latents. This paper studies how to make diffusion on continuous motion latents work best.

Paper Title: MoLingo: Motion-Language Alignment for Text-to-Human Motion Generation
Project: https://t.co/ISK0eWtuT7.
Link: https://t.co/yqR19EI3LT

[CG Channel @theCGchannel]

Google has open-sourced GNM Head, its parametric model for generating 3D human heads

The model, based on real-world scan data, provides 250 controls for head shape, and 380+ for facial expressions

A free add-on integrates it into Blender

https://t.co/bFZLwM7rWZ

#B3D

[David @3DXRGuy]

made my face into a squishy toy for @VIVERSEofficial
- webcam physics simulation, all in browser
- built with @threejs
- demo link below in replies

[Kaifeng Zhao @kaifengzhao]

Introducing ARDY — real-time, controllable 3D human motion generation
Streaming text prompts + flexible kinematic constraints — root waypoints, full-body keyframes, joint targets — all at interactive speed
To be presented at SIGGRAPH 2026, Paper & demo
https://t.co/ujS94CQAto
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