Paul McManus @paulmc@mastodon.cloud

My baby has finally grown up.

#b3d #renderfarm
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RT @BlenderStudio_
🦩Announcing the Flamenco 3 Release!🦩

The latest iteration of Blender's free and open source render manager is now available. Easy to install (takes a few minutes), transparent, interactive and robust. Learn more at https://studio.blender.org/blog/announcing-flamenco-3-release/ #b3d
https://twitter.com/BlenderStudio_/status/1569348317632503808

Afternoon mograph. Bored and uncreative today, so just messing with instances and looping. Y'know what's better than trickle down economics? Downpour economics.
#Blender3D #B3D #Mograph

The fellow @CWernerArt@twitter.com was right, Geometry Nodes might be overkill for what I'm after. Managed to make this with Shrinkwrap and Curve modifiers:

https://blender.stackexchange.com/a/273992/8282

Occasionally still messing around with #mandelbulber. Still getting the hang of it, but it can produce some cool #fractal #animations!

This idea has been brewing ever since we made that logo for the back of our RV. It demanded to be made.

#mastoart #kdenlive #faketrailer #funwiththefamily

Evening mograph. I watched a bit of a tutorial, and wanted to produce the same effect a different way. The videomaker used a lot of geometry, but this is one of those cases where I'm perfectly happy to rely on some flat plans and shaders.
#Blender3D #B3D #Mograph

#PCP (Point Cloud Progress) - This is about a year of developing a scanning and rendering workflow for point clouds.

Check out the 4K version for the full experience: https://youtu.be/eUL6jDovuZE

Made with #metashape, #b3d and #davinciresolve, I'm really hoping to do a workflow video soon! Learned a lot on this journey. :)

Let's call it an #experimental #short #arthouse #film. ;)

Credits:

Video: Midge "Mantissa" Sinnaeve
Audio: Marlon Sinnaeve: https://open.spotify.com/album/5mAV8CUd4UCtNTR8jHyIym?si=dSNc953WSfaKiZ7SzDe-Mw

Evening mograph. I built a rig to control noise generation, and realized there were some fun uses. Like... what if I drive my noise with an image? Then use some of my usual trickery to move things around.
#Blender3D #B3D #Mograph

loop_109 - Free download: https://mantissa.xyz/vjloops

#b3d #pointcloud #render #vj #loop #art #perfectloop #nature #lidar

It feels good to donate blood. Today was my 10th time!

If you live in The Netherlands, please consider becoming a blood or plasma donor. There is a dramatic shortage of blood donors.

Visit https://www.sanquin.nl/ for more info.

Learning that new grooming thing, so hard to make very good hair still for me, even though the tools are great

But liking the lighting :)

#b3d

Evening mograph. I made a gloop lupe.
#Blender3D #B3D #Mograph

Schwig-wag spiral. Fountain pen on A3.

Afternoon mograph. I've been exploring some unusual sphere topology, in this case a subdivided dodecahedron. Seems to stretch pretty well.
#Blender3D #B3D #Mograph

Blender Conference for me it'll be then! First time :)

I don't care to hurry, so:

Landing
26 Oct, 17:30

Take-off
30 Oct, 18:50

See you there!
#b3d

Rick Beato describes so well what tinnitus feels like.

Take care of your ears people, always take care of your ears.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdINYxLWGXs

It's here! It's here! The paperback is in hand! And yes, you can get it (or the ebook) now on jjvega.com. Woohoo!

#mastoart #book

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#b3d #cyclesrender #geometrynodes #photogrammetry #mograph #motiondesign #loop #perfectloop #vj #foss #art

https://objkt.com/asset/KT1WXai2G3mnXdkxG2sjXYcvzHQEzoXXYmaC/1

Recently had the chance to help out on Korn's latest music video, "The Worst Is On Its Way". These are a few excerpts of the stuff I created.

Go check out the full video on YT: https://youtu.be/wjttaL8y_DA