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I'm a design manager in my dayjob for a brand that most millennials have heard of. :) However, I keep that world airgapped from my passion work which is best seen on kradeelav.com. Published comics, zines, erotic art, illustrations, you name it. Since you asked about tools, I tend to live in Photoshop/Illustrator 99% of the time. I'm about to move to Kubuntu for my personal computer and fully intend on moving back to…
Senior Visual effects artist here. Hi! 20+ years in the industry, worked on movies from Final Fantasy The Spirits Withing to Disney's Enchanted and a whole mess of forgettable cinema and TV shows. My axe is SideFx's Houdini. I've been in love with it since I first set eyes on it in 1998, but didn't use it in work until 2010. Until then I was using Maya. Yuck. It's now off my resume and I've left studios that made me…
Do you interact with Houdini via its Python API? If yes, would you mind sharing your set-up (IDE, etc.)? For a while now, I have been wanting to learn how to use Houdini or Blender for 1) data viz, e.g., animations of very large amounts of data points and 2) making short animations that I could embed into my presentations.
I'm a design manager in my dayjob for a brand that most millennials have heard of. :) However, I keep that world airgapped from my passion work which is best seen on kradeelav.com. Published comics, zines, erotic art, illustrations, you name it. Since you asked about tools, I tend to live in Photoshop/Illustrator 99% of the time. I'm about to move to Kubuntu for my personal computer and fully intend on moving back to…
which brand is it?
I am an artist and my tool of choice is Perl. :)
I am an artist and my tool of choice is Perl. :)
Did you somehow figure out how to invert the transformation in https://www.mcmillen.dev/sigbovik/2019.pdf
I actually just use it to generate artsy Web sites, so it's really Perl + bash + HTML + JS + CSS + PHP + .txt
However, unlike my day job I use my hands to create a physical object vs digital. I find that to be _extremely_ satisfying.
I have also started creating generative art. The outputs are SVG that get plotted with an axidraw. I use various tools and frameworks for this:
* Kotlin - https://openrndr.org/
* Python - I'm writing a custom framework that suites my style
* Inkscape
* Adobe illustrator for the handful of things inkscape can't do very well
I'm an amateur illustrator, painter, luthier, and musician when I'm not writing code. I've used Blender, 3dsMax, Maya, and ZBrush but my work-horse software is usually Photoshop on my wacom and Procreate on an iPad. In terms of music, I run NI software inside Logic Pro X. Most of the time though, I'm trying to stay away from computers when I do my non-tech hobbies. So most of my work these days is traditional media -…
I had to look up what this is. What a cool hobby! Do you mind if I ask how you got into it? Is it like building a PC where there are a lot of resources, kits, interchangeable parts, etc? Or do you just buy some blueprints and hit home depot? (In case it wasn’t abundantly clear I have not a musical bone in my body and know nothing about music or instruments. So apologies if these are silly questions, I’m merely curious how someone found such a niche hobby! Or maybe it’s not so niche and I just need to add some musically-inclined friends to my social circle!)