Finished another zoetrope. This time I wanted to make a tribute to one of the greatest animators, Hayao Miyazaki. #StudioGhibli #totoro #catbus #stopmotionanimation #vfx

These are not dystopian scenes from Blade Runner. Instead, to mark the Jubilee, I actually transport you back 70 years to the London of 1952 and The Great Smog that year which killed 10,000 Londoners and made a further 100,000 ill. The event directly resulted in the Clean Air Act

December 1975. Disaster strikes the Beira D oil rig off the Scottish coast. Something has come aboard… Our next title STILL WAKES THE DEEP out on PC and consoles in early 2024. Still Wakes the Deep #SWTDGame Wishlist now: StillWakesTheDeep.com

Stopmotioncinematographer.com I made a website. it explores the history, techniques and artistry that goes into lighting stop motion’s perfectly imperfect worlds through interviews with some of the top cinematographers in stop motion. #cinematography #stopmotion #animation #film

A blast from the past: A few years back I stood outside Wells Cathedral for a full day and photographed the impact of the light on the front facade. I was amazed at the outcome - at how a single entity could morph and change under the changing light. #thread

DOP Laura Howie has put together this fantastic website. Excellent behind the scenes look at camera work and lighting for stop frame. Full of information and resources for anyone interested in cinematography.

Someone forgot to turn on dynamic shadows..

Introducing DiffusionLight---a simple yet effective technique to estimate lighting from any in-the-wild input image. How? ... by inpainting a chrome ball into the image with diffusion models! (1/3) paper: arxiv.org/abs/2312.09168 diffusionlight.github.io huggingface.co/DiffusionLight…

TIL there's a beta version of PureRef that has extended functionality like drawing, proper grouping and Gif Playback!

Around 2003 in Chile, when the original trilogy of Star Wars began airing on television there, they did this funny thing to avoid cutting to commercial breaks. They stitched the commercials into the films themselves. Here is one of them, with the English dub added in.

This may be my favourite art book.

We can finally announce - our return to Narrative Horror "Still Wakes The Deep" Still Wakes the Deep will be out on PC & Consoles JUNE 18. Disaster strikes an oil rig off the coast of Scotland in 1975. Save your crew from an otherworldly horror. 🌊 Wishlist now: stillwakesthedeep.com

We have released the Colour Science Precis for the CGI Artist: bit.ly/3JpnY43 This is the first version and we would like to thank all the contributors to the Precis and Cinematic Color 2. Feel free to come discuss on Github: bit.ly/3QcpPN8

RIP Morgan. Sad news. One of the good guys.

Still Wakes the Deep is a first-person Lovecraftian horror game taking place in the year 1975, on an oil rig off the coast of Scotland where you have to survive against an unknown terror. They shared an exclusive first look into their artistic process with me. Thread 🧵

Excited to say that my lighting team is expanding. If you are interested, even applied before, know both cinematic and game lighting or know someone else. Please let them know ir apply yourself. Senior gunzillagames.com/en/careers/176… mid gunzillagames.com/en/careers/177…

Because I see questions about Lumen performance often enough, here on Twitter and here at Epic, check out this guide that Krzysztof Narkowicz put together. It's a good starting point for getting performance in check when using Lumen in Unreal Engine projects. dev.epicgames.com/documentation/…

Today we’re publishing a statement on AI training, signed by 10,000+ creators already: “The unlicensed use of creative works for training generative AI is a major, unjust threat to the livelihoods of the people behind those works, and must not be permitted.” Signatories include

i can guarantee that no bluesky team members will be sitting with a presidential candidate tonight and giving them direct access to control what you see online

How Musk broke Twitter and helped elect Trump (Location: Tesla European HQ, Amsterdam)