SAMURAY 🕊️

Product design team lead @ Youla. Former Lead Product Designer @ Avito, Group; email: [email protected]

[abstrakt @abstrakt314]

minecraft shaders are wild these days...

[dylan @dylan_ebert_]

Introducing Texel Splatting

a technique for "true" 3D pixel art

[Min Choi @minchoi]

AI is getting out of hand 😂

Talking Baby Podcast

[el.cine @EHuanglu]

3D AI is levelling up..

Hunyuan 3D just dropped Sketch to 3D, turn any sketch into high quality 3D model and..

it can even rig & and animate your 3D character automatically

something big is coming today, stay tuned.

step by step tutorial:

[Bilawal Sidhu @bilawalsidhu]

Generative AI is cool and all, but procedural 3D modeling just hits different. Check out this Houdini setup by Pepe Buendia.

Why this is cool: Instead of manually placing every building and car, this system generates an NYC-style city that builds itself -- automatically spawning buildings with unique variations, plus a traffic system where cars actually obey traffic lights and avoid crashing into each other (all orchestrated through houdini VEX code).

Each car knows exactly which road it's on and makes real-time decisions about navigation. The whole thing runs on custom algorithms that handle everything from road directions to building placement.

If you did this with generative AI, even approaches to conditioning and taming the chaos -- you'd still get a ton of variance which might be an issue for visual and spatial consistency.

To me this is procedural modeling at its finest - precise control meets infinite scalability. Immensely useful for media & entertainment, but also synthetic training data for robotics and augmented reality.

I of course can't wait until multimodal LLMs to have the spatial understanding to write these kind of controllable 3D worlds for us. Claude counting 2D pixels on a screen is a step in this direction. Soon they'll be able to manipulate 2D ortho viewports, and eventually spawn procedural 3D worlds.

[Chubby♨️ @kimmonismus]

This is how I imagine the future with AR/VR

[François Lefebvre @lachamade]

Manipulating a simple waveform with a mask in After Effects can be 🤩.

[LaurieWired @lauriewired]

You play doom with a CPU.
I play doom with CPU usage.

we are not the same

[Dogan Ural @doganuraldesign]

We're stepping into a new reality (!)

Introducing EMO: a groundbreaking AI that creates expressive portrait videos from just an image and audio!

🧵 More in the thread:

[SAMURAY 🕊️ @samuray_design]

@akihoneko Ого, приключения :)

[Linus ✦ Ekenstam @LinusEkenstam]

Next level AI enhancing

From a few triangles to full on photorealism

Future is upscaled

[Nick St. Pierre @nickfloats]

More huge news in the 3D space, this time from Luma.

Their app now supports Gaussian splats.

Anyone with a phone can take a video and turn it into an insanely detailed 3D scene.

Crazy thing is the files are under 20mb and can be embedded anywhere 😳

[Luke Wroblewski @LukeW]

Best Take (on new Pixel phone): lets you choose expressions of different people from various shots and merge them into one.

[SAMURAY 🕊️ @samuray_design]

With all this hype around AI, should Adobe change the Illustrator logo? @Adobe

[Nick St. Pierre @nickfloats]

I truly believe this is the future of online retail.

Tiny 8mb files (will get even smaller), that start streaming immediately at 30fps.

Fully interactive on mobile and web. Usable commercially without any additional licensing.

The web is quickly becoming 3D and interactive.

[Maxon ZBrush @maxonzbrush]

#ZBrush for iPad coming 2024

[Mitch @GuillaumeMitch]

Year is 2023. Adobe bank is full in Billion. And we are still experiencing this as a user...

[SAMURAY 🕊️ @samuray_design]

@SamLakeRMD @alanwake @remedygames @EpicPublishing Outer side of a film set %)

[SAMURAY 🕊️ @samuray_design]

@DavidWilliames @figma That is dope %)

[SAMURAY 🕊️ @samuray_design]

After 3 years this video still got me goosebumps. Excellent job done by the whole team https://t.co/H8maBAkPzw

[Microsoft Design @MicrosoftDesign]

The new Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S is uncomplicated, unique, and understated. “Our focus on form following function influenced this newest generation's aesthetic and personality. We call this approach Intelligent Geometry,” says Senior Design Director Nicolas Denhez.