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shahar2k

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About shahar2k

technical artist in film previz and games.

Recent public activity

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    You're thinking of the same app i used to use! I think it was a Japanese app called Papakura? It's what helped me learn 3d modeling back in the day

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    Comment #47082488

    love the microsoft ergonomic kb, I have the surface grey one as my main kb (I need the full layout for various 3d program shortcuts annoyingly) but it really does feel great to typ…

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    Comment #46636785

    I found out about that one through mortismal games and loved it, i actually played through that campaign almost entirely on a stream deck! I don't know though if it would be as goo…

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    Comment #45209299

    honestly humans are nowhere near as lossless as you think, look up any study on eye-witness acounts of crimes and you will see how fallible to hallucination the human mind is as we…

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    Comment #45113946

    I still have mine, unfortunately basically nothing supports it at this point

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    Comment #44059771

    I'm an artist who works on pre-production fast turnaround animations for films, and yeah that hits the nail on the head, knowing what NOT to do which elements not to focus on is a …

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    Comment #40954095

    Milkshape was such crap, i loved it haha. I learned modeling using it too, i think it had two tools extrude and merge vertices, so i had to learn some dumb topological tricks to do…

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    Comment #39949721

    I imagine something like a weaponized version of this, loitering semi autonomous drone swarms fully charged / ready to deploy hanging off wires... a bit like the US spider munition…

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    Comment #39698717

    hes a frequent contributor to numberphile! https://www.youtube.com/@numberphile/search?query=tadashi although honmestly most of their mathematicians are lovely people!

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    Comment #39637689

    it's funny, the thing that got me to understand calculus initially in class was seeing the graphs, somehow my brain immediatly "got" the difference between acceleration and movemen…

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    Comment #39465643

    nebula really is the best of youtube! I've subscribed for a while but recently went for their lifetime subscription (I know it's not a "deal" I just want to support those creators'…

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    Comment #39465592

    I'm very surprised to see this so late in the thread

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    Comment #39351870

    same here and there's a few non "shipping time" bonuses I remember hearing about and noting that I wanted to try... but then never did, I wonder if I should cut them off because I …

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    Comment #38701391

    reminds me of this - https://www.taron.de/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4 it's a painting program where the paint can be moved around with a similar fluid simulation

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    Comment #38509374

    This strikes me as a moment where you should watch the video there's a moment specifically at 41:40 where he basically says what you're saying and it's an integral part of his poin…

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    Comment #38337675

    hah it's possibly a bit of a cheat but immortality (cheat because as a game it's largely a movie) but yeah as far as compelling characters through games alone, Pentiment was incred…

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    Comment #38051538

    I use his other software magicaCSG, I'm a 3d artist and it's probably the simplest 3D program I've ever used but it's super fun to play around in. So fun in fact that I joined his …

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    Comment #38047611

    I actually just watch this talk last night She is an absolutely fantastic explainer for these complex concepts, her video about splines was also hugely illuminating

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    Comment #37329996

    could even include something like a single page self editing wiki as your home page (like tiddlywiki)

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    Comment #37266553

    ze frank has been one of my favorite things on the internet since before youtube :) what's your power move? https://youtu.be/SBPXd6GZPqQ

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    Comment #37165142

    https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/649039-whatever-you-now-fin...

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    Comment #37095050

    this is along the lines of mistaking climate for weather. yes there are areas in israel where you do not necessarily want to be a tourist or visit, but the vast majority of the cou…

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    Comment #36377364

    it's an offline fluid simulation, it's a pretty identifiable look once you've seen a few

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    Comment #36263498

    the key wasnt the pornography, but the kinds of people who post what tubmlr CATGORIZED as pornography. everything from queer communities, sex education, and people who post a varie…

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    Comment #36221570

    it's exactly the camera work, this is a camera on a spline that has been heavily smoothed, a trick used in a lot of vfx work is recording ACTUAL camera movement (put a brick on an …