Not to be a hater or anything (I'm a hater), but I'm seeing people mention the potential of LLMs for the "grunt work" like retopo, but I can't really begin to imagine what the "correct" data representation and python api calls would even begin to look like in a training set?
Would an LLM really be querying vertices in relation to one another and estimate whether their distance "sounds" like good topology?
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#212I hope this drives the move towards what I have kept on saying is "good use" of generative ai: being able to generate animations.
It's tedious work, not the most fun thing to do especially for units like random enemy #20.
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#213Earlier quoted context omitted.
> you can't just exit without losing a big part of the social context because the people around you are eating the same thing. That's exactly it. The goal is lose a big part of the social context. It driven by rage bait, AI bots, state actors, and a thousand other influences that are predominantly negative. Of course amazing things happen online. However, the good is not worth bad. I'm raising my kids and they will n…
This structure expects all of their friends to live in similar systems. Otherwise their friends will talk about games, memes, series at school while your kids are isolated away as they are not a part of the culture and not in the loop. I think this is only possible if you find a community with similar values, like religious, or hippie, where the focus is put on other things. Otherwise you might deprive your kids of w…
I am not an idiot. I'm well aware they will pick up things at school My 5 year old already knows who Mr. Beast is. He's never watched a video of his and never will at my home. If he watches one or two at a friends house that of course is going to happen. But he won't be consuming that poison regularly every day. My 8 year old is doing just fine. Happy. Healthy. Active. Lots of friends. And when they're older and fully functioning adults unlike some of these Gen Z zombies who have had their brain fried, they will thank me.
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There is already a Blender MCP. It works-ish! But could be a lot better in understanding 3D space. As an amateur this is really exciting - but not sure about folks that are real pros at this stuff.
I'm not a pro, but I've been unimpressed by LLMs driving blender. Was left unexcited. Must be torture for professional to read this thread.
Absolutely agree - I was not impressed, but it will be a lot easier to work with the tooling without a 10 month crash-course on UI and 3D terminology if I can ask for what I want in plain language instead of knowing which button buried three levels deep to press to get my desired results.
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This is idiotic. Blender runs an open development process. It's all out in the open, and they would never do such a thing. Obviously you know nothing about the Blender developer community, and you're not qualified to speculate without even bothering to do the most basic research, so your posts are much worse than any hallucinating ai slop, just insulting the work and integrity of hard working dedicated people. Your h…
I think you missed my point completely - I am not attacking Blender, I'm attacking the Anthropic. You think Dario woke up this morning and just felt like doing charity? Or do you think there's an underlying business reason for getting into this space? If you believe they're doing it because they're lovely people I'm afraid we'll disagree about that.
Yes you most certainly are attacking Blender, accusing Blender developers of being in on a conspiracy of checking in code to Blender that sends data to Anthropic.
And your conspiracy theory about the Blender developers selling out to Anthropic and secretly checking in code (that anyone can see since it's public) that sends data to Anthropic is objectively idiotic.
Unity donated a lot of money to Blender too. Do you have any evidence that Blender sends data to Unity?
Can you point to the code in Blender that sends data to Unity? Or is your conspiracy theory that the official Blender builds contain secret spy code that is not checked into the repo? How many Blender developers are in on this conspiracy, and how have they kept it secret until now, now that you publicly announced your accusations that they intentionally spy on their users in exchange for donations from sponsors?
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This structure expects all of their friends to live in similar systems. Otherwise their friends will talk about games, memes, series at school while your kids are isolated away as they are not a part of the culture and not in the loop. I think this is only possible if you find a community with similar values, like religious, or hippie, where the focus is put on other things. Otherwise you might deprive your kids of w…
I am not an idiot. I'm well aware they will pick up things at school My 5 year old already knows who Mr. Beast is. He's never watched a video of his and never will at my home. If he watches one or two at a friends house that of course is going to happen. But he won't be consuming that poison regularly every day. My 8 year old is doing just fine. Happy. Healthy. Active. Lots of friends. And when they're older and full…
I hope you will be right. I think the teenage years might be hard for this, good luck.
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I disagree that anyone should need LLMs for Blender, for example, because Blender is designed by people to be understood and used by people, even if it requires a learning curve. It sounds a bit dangerous to build new things we don't understand, or worse, reduce our understanding of what we currently use because (only after studying our use of the same technology) an LLM apears able to replicate it, mostly. I'm remin…
I propose that, for some software, the learning curve is becoming harder to surmount. Further, I'm suggesting "designed by people to be understood and used by people" might be a hurdle for some future software we might envision. (Altman's performance is orthogonal as I'm suggesting a new level of software that has not yet been written/conceived.)
Regarding whether AI can/could overcome the hurdle of human understanding: I'm not sure if that's really a hurdle. Let's say in theory, a system was crafted by AI to be interacted with exclusively by AI. Broadly, I assume the outcome of the system would be for people, and it would have some purpose or value. Now my question is: how do we verify it functions? If it is a black box that nobody understands, then we can't verify it at all, and we can't debug it if there's something wrong with it. We circle back to the human understanding issue.
(I'm sorry if my tangent about Altman was taken as a personal affront, as I did not mean it to be that. It just muddied the two interesting topics you brought up.)
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By that logic, Blender shouldn't exist because it devalues the skill of hand animated art.
Did you really create a 3d model if you didn’t hand type all of the vertex coordinates? Anything less is cheating by using cheating tools and isn’t art. Oh you had to use a deform tool? Pathetic. Can’t calculate your own circle approximations at various details? Good. If you can’t do it, it shouldn’t happen. Honestly these people are just so weird.
Why did you create an imaginary person in your head just to get mad at them?
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It's not democratising access to an expert tool, it's devaluing the skill, expertise, and hard work required to create art. edit: I seem to be rate limited and unable to reply? I'll paste it here: I'm sorry but I don't agree. People care about art when it is extraordinary, in the same way people watch professional sport because it is extraordinary, or they watch cooking shows because it's extraordinary. What you call…
By that logic, Blender shouldn't exist because it devalues the skill of hand animated art.
Nobody said that. You just made that up.
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#220People seem not to be aware of this: https://fund.blender.org/funding-policy/ I agree that it's not a good look for Blender, but I don't think that something actually bad will come from this. (Other than maybe a negative impact to Blender's reputation.)
I didn't think about their involvement with the American military. That changes my view on this.
Wait, wasn't that OpenAI, not Anthropic? Lost track of all those AI companies.