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“Deep Seeds” process video. It's a very simplified version, showcasing the creation journey. Lot of inspiration came from Keishu Asada content. Software used: SideFX #houdini 19.5 / 20 Maxon Redshift 3.5 / 3.6 +200 hours of hard work #3d #animation #cgi

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bharat : sharma2 years ago

@CephWarden @sidefx @maxonredshift So inspiring ✨

Rad Scientist2 years ago

@CephWarden @sidefx @maxonredshift Fantastic breakdown. Did you record this as you went or kind of make a new project out of process recording

Jose_L_Molfino2 years ago

@sidefx Due to the nature of Solaris wokflow, making those kind of breakdowns is incredible easy and fast… no need to setup new project, simply edit some of the primitives in a new layer.

lewi2 years ago

@CephWarden @sidefx @maxonredshift Fantastic work!

David Mcsween2 years ago

@CephWarden @sidefx @maxonredshift Congrats very realistic

Vu Pham2 years ago

@CephWarden @sidefx @maxonredshift Your work is truly amazing! It's fascinating to see how you've brilliantly crafted such a compact and engaging story. Your unique voice adds an extra layer of charm that makes the whole piece even more captivating. Great job!

Jonnie Chambers2 years ago

@CephWarden @sidefx @maxonredshift Awesome stuff!

Lewis_Orton2 years ago

@CephWarden @sidefx @maxonredshift How do you animate the camera in Solaris? it's so painful for me

Jose_L_Molfino2 years ago

Actually I animated the camera in obj conext, then imported in Solaris

Kiran Irugalbandara2 years ago

@sidefx @CephWarden @maxonredshift Very cool. What did you use for the narration ?

Jose_L_Molfino2 years ago

Thanks, Brian voice from @elevenlabsio

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270,472 views • 1 year ago

Official Babylon 5 episodes on YouTube every week (link in comments). Why is this significant to Commodore fans? (You might want to bookmark this) The Amiga 2000's Role in Babylon 5's Special Effects (read the full article: In the annals of television history, few shows leveraged technology as innovatively as Babylon 5. The series, which aired from 1993 to 1998, was groundbreaking not only for its storytelling but also for its pioneering use of computer-generated imagery (CGI). A key component in this visual revolution was the often-overlooked Commodore Amiga 2000. The Babylon 5 Amiga 2000 Setup Explained • Hardware: The Amiga 2000 was a major upgrade from earlier Amiga models, with an open architecture that allowed extensive hardware enhancements. It was powered by the Motorola 68000-series CPU, with options for further upgrades. • Video Toaster: This video effects card, designed specifically for the Commodore Amiga, included a genlock for broadcast-quality video synchronization, a framebuffer for real-time effects, and LightWave 3D software for 3D modelling and animation. • Networked Computing: Foundation Imaging, the special effects house for Babylon 5, networked 24 Commodore Amiga 2000s to form a render farm. This setup enabled parallel processing of CGI frames, dramatically speeding up the rendering process. Did you watch it? Are you going to watch it? Check out this making of Babylon 5 video too where they show the Amiga 2000 in operation!

Official Babylon 5 episodes on YouTube every week (link in comments). Why is this significant to Commodore fans? (You might want to bookmark this) The Amiga 2000's Role in Babylon 5's Special Effects (read the full article: In the annals of television history, few shows leveraged technology as innovatively as Babylon 5. The series, which aired from 1993 to 1998, was groundbreaking not only for its storytelling but also for its pioneering use of computer-generated imagery (CGI). A key component in this visual revolution was the often-overlooked Commodore Amiga 2000. The Babylon 5 Amiga 2000 Setup Explained • Hardware: The Amiga 2000 was a major upgrade from earlier Amiga models, with an open architecture that allowed extensive hardware enhancements. It was powered by the Motorola 68000-series CPU, with options for further upgrades. • Video Toaster: This video effects card, designed specifically for the Commodore Amiga, included a genlock for broadcast-quality video synchronization, a framebuffer for real-time effects, and LightWave 3D software for 3D modelling and animation. • Networked Computing: Foundation Imaging, the special effects house for Babylon 5, networked 24 Commodore Amiga 2000s to form a render farm. This setup enabled parallel processing of CGI frames, dramatically speeding up the rendering process. Did you watch it? Are you going to watch it? Check out this making of Babylon 5 video too where they show the Amiga 2000 in operation!

Commodore Computer Museum 🕹

16,632 views • 5 months ago

"There's something about this culture of young people coming up where they're not afraid of hard work. They're not afraid to pop a Zyn and work at the factory all day." Why Katherine Boyle is bullish on Zoomers: "The best quote that summarizes why I'm so bullish on the Zoomers is Alysa Liu after winning her gold. She said, 'I love to struggle. It makes me feel alive.'" "It's the opposite of the morose theater kid vibes that we got from the millennial generation, where everything was very different in how they operated." "Like Jack Hughes—they get their teeth knocked out, they come back and say, 'It's not even a question. Of course I got my teeth knocked out. It's hockey.'" "And that means we're seeing totally different companies than we saw out of the Facebook diaspora—which was very much the Harvard dorm room—I like to work on my computer, I like to build apps. It's a totally different style of founder." "The next generation is so patriotic and bullish on the American project. I think this generation cares a lot about the country. And it shocked us. David Ulevitch 🇺🇸 and I talk about this all the time—for some of these young people, they were not born on September 11th. They have no recollection of the things that the millennials remember, or anyone older than us remembers, but they care about the country." "They look up to people like Elon Musk, to people like Alex Karp. They look up to people who've been doing the hard thing for 20, 30 years and they want to do it too." "It's a different generation of founder that we've had the privilege of seeing very, very early on. I think the rest of the country is going to define tech and Silicon Valley by these people for the next 10–20 years." From New York Post

"There's something about this culture of young people coming up where they're not afraid of hard work. They're not afraid to pop a Zyn and work at the factory all day." Why Katherine Boyle is bullish on Zoomers: "The best quote that summarizes why I'm so bullish on the Zoomers is Alysa Liu after winning her gold. She said, 'I love to struggle. It makes me feel alive.'" "It's the opposite of the morose theater kid vibes that we got from the millennial generation, where everything was very different in how they operated." "Like Jack Hughes—they get their teeth knocked out, they come back and say, 'It's not even a question. Of course I got my teeth knocked out. It's hockey.'" "And that means we're seeing totally different companies than we saw out of the Facebook diaspora—which was very much the Harvard dorm room—I like to work on my computer, I like to build apps. It's a totally different style of founder." "The next generation is so patriotic and bullish on the American project. I think this generation cares a lot about the country. And it shocked us. David Ulevitch 🇺🇸 and I talk about this all the time—for some of these young people, they were not born on September 11th. They have no recollection of the things that the millennials remember, or anyone older than us remembers, but they care about the country." "They look up to people like Elon Musk, to people like Alex Karp. They look up to people who've been doing the hard thing for 20, 30 years and they want to do it too." "It's a different generation of founder that we've had the privilege of seeing very, very early on. I think the rest of the country is going to define tech and Silicon Valley by these people for the next 10–20 years." From New York Post

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325,102 views • 4 months ago

Elon Musk: Education shouldn't be such a huge chore. “If you're thinking like, what is education? You're basically downloading data and algorithms into your brain. And it's actually amazingly bad in conventional education. Because it shouldn't be like this huge chore. So you're making it way, way better. But I think a lot of things that I would say you've probably heard 100 times and are fact, or if not doing, the more you can gamify the process of learning, the better. For my kids, I do not have to encourage them to play video games. I have to pry them from their hands like crack. It's like, drop that crack needle. The crack is addictive. So to the degree that you can make somehow learning like a game, but then it's better. And I think unfortunately a lot of education is very vaudevillian. You've got someone standing up there kind of lecturing at people, and they've done the same lecture 20 years in a row, and they're not very excited about it.” Interview with Sal Khan, Khan Academy, April 22, 2013.

Elon Musk: Education shouldn't be such a huge chore. “If you're thinking like, what is education? You're basically downloading data and algorithms into your brain. And it's actually amazingly bad in conventional education. Because it shouldn't be like this huge chore. So you're making it way, way better. But I think a lot of things that I would say you've probably heard 100 times and are fact, or if not doing, the more you can gamify the process of learning, the better. For my kids, I do not have to encourage them to play video games. I have to pry them from their hands like crack. It's like, drop that crack needle. The crack is addictive. So to the degree that you can make somehow learning like a game, but then it's better. And I think unfortunately a lot of education is very vaudevillian. You've got someone standing up there kind of lecturing at people, and they've done the same lecture 20 years in a row, and they're not very excited about it.” Interview with Sal Khan, Khan Academy, April 22, 2013.

ELON CLIPS

34,228 views • 19 days ago

"AI is gonna kill creatives" is the dumbest take and people say it all the time. There is INFINITE DEMAND for content, but the problem is that off-the-shelf AI tools need people with taste to create compelling work. Here's the biggest mistake I see solo-creators making: Teamwork. Many of our ads are created by teams of people with different skill sets (very similar to traditional filmmaking) AI filmmakers need to split the process into distinct stages: 1. Writing 2. Directing 3. Cinematography (Image creation) 4. Animation 5. Editing You need to understand which of those skill sets you're very good at, double down on it, and collaborate with others in their areas of genius. Use a Figma/Milanote for every film project so you can lay out the script and storyboard and it will make collaboration 100x easier. I outline our agency's working process in all my recent video posts (or newsletter posts)- feel free to reference them. Also, feel free to use this post as a talent magnet to introduce yourself, showcase your work, and share your specialty. Stronger together! I hope to continue seeing the community thrive!

"AI is gonna kill creatives" is the dumbest take and people say it all the time. There is INFINITE DEMAND for content, but the problem is that off-the-shelf AI tools need people with taste to create compelling work. Here's the biggest mistake I see solo-creators making: Teamwork. Many of our ads are created by teams of people with different skill sets (very similar to traditional filmmaking) AI filmmakers need to split the process into distinct stages: 1. Writing 2. Directing 3. Cinematography (Image creation) 4. Animation 5. Editing You need to understand which of those skill sets you're very good at, double down on it, and collaborate with others in their areas of genius. Use a Figma/Milanote for every film project so you can lay out the script and storyboard and it will make collaboration 100x easier. I outline our agency's working process in all my recent video posts (or newsletter posts)- feel free to reference them. Also, feel free to use this post as a talent magnet to introduce yourself, showcase your work, and share your specialty. Stronger together! I hope to continue seeing the community thrive!

PJ Ace

30,969 views • 9 months ago