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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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a16z

34,591 views • 7 days ago

Earning MONEY from VTubing? 💰 I get this two part question a lot: "Should I start VTubing only to earn money?" and "Can I start VTubing to afford it?" 🤔 If you want to try VTubing you can do so without spending a single penny, but of course there are hundreds and thousands to spend too! Content creation is hard. Unless you have a well-stocked wallet and outsource the help, it's an incredibly time consuming hobby that requires you to spend many long hours learning new software, jumping platforms, communication, networking, the list goes on! But it's a process that will undoubtably burn you out if passion and interest isn't driving it 💚 While there are many ways to earn money as a creator online (be it as a VTuber or not) like through sponsorships, viewer interactions, brand deals, etc, I would never personally recommend someone start it Only to earn money!

Chio 🍀

10,514 views • 8 months ago

A 20 YEAR OLD IS MAKING $20,000 A MONTH WITH THE LAZIEST BUSINESS MODEL ON THE INTERNET. SHE WORKS TWENTY MINUTES A DAY FROM HER CAR. SHE HAS NEVER PRODUCED AN ORIGINAL IDEA. Children's YouTube is a goldmine. Channels with simple songs and bright colors pull hundreds of millions of views. Traditional studios spend a fortune to animate them. She spends zero dollars and does it from the driver's seat. She opens YouTube on her phone. She finds a viral baby video with millions of views. She copies the link. She uses a free tool to rip the entire transcript of the video. She takes that transcript and pastes it into an AI platform called Swagga. She types one sentence: "Make me a prompt for a similar video using this as inspiration." The AI acts as her creative director. It analyzes the viral song and spits out a highly detailed master prompt for a new, original 3D animation. She copies the prompt. She switches to the video generator tab. She selects Sora 2 and hits generate. Three minutes later, the AI outputs a fully rendered, broadcast-ready 3D animation. A brightly colored, musical video designed specifically to capture the attention of a toddler. She downloads it. She posts it. She puts her car in drive. The entire process takes twenty minutes. Her channel pulls in thousands of dollars a week in AdSense. She is running a complete children's television network without an office, without animators, and without original ideas. The traditional creator economy is obsessed with authenticity and hard work. The ghost economy is obsessed with leverage. Most people will watch her video and call it lazy. A few will open a new tab.

A 20 YEAR OLD IS MAKING $20,000 A MONTH WITH THE LAZIEST BUSINESS MODEL ON THE INTERNET. SHE WORKS TWENTY MINUTES A DAY FROM HER CAR. SHE HAS NEVER PRODUCED AN ORIGINAL IDEA. Children's YouTube is a goldmine. Channels with simple songs and bright colors pull hundreds of millions of views. Traditional studios spend a fortune to animate them. She spends zero dollars and does it from the driver's seat. She opens YouTube on her phone. She finds a viral baby video with millions of views. She copies the link. She uses a free tool to rip the entire transcript of the video. She takes that transcript and pastes it into an AI platform called Swagga. She types one sentence: "Make me a prompt for a similar video using this as inspiration." The AI acts as her creative director. It analyzes the viral song and spits out a highly detailed master prompt for a new, original 3D animation. She copies the prompt. She switches to the video generator tab. She selects Sora 2 and hits generate. Three minutes later, the AI outputs a fully rendered, broadcast-ready 3D animation. A brightly colored, musical video designed specifically to capture the attention of a toddler. She downloads it. She posts it. She puts her car in drive. The entire process takes twenty minutes. Her channel pulls in thousands of dollars a week in AdSense. She is running a complete children's television network without an office, without animators, and without original ideas. The traditional creator economy is obsessed with authenticity and hard work. The ghost economy is obsessed with leverage. Most people will watch her video and call it lazy. A few will open a new tab.

ZER

126,676 views • 2 months ago

Snippet of a tutorial demo ono setting up a free Github review agent using Servflow and Kimi (Bring your own key) The entire process was about 4 minutes in the full video from install to PR reviews. Complete with log analysis on the dashboard. Servflow is in early beta but the aim is to develop a real agent runtime with the ability to package, share and even sell agents. There's a lot of work to be done so watch this space. DM me if you'd like to test this on your projects as i'm looking to gather live feedback as it's being used. Enjoy!

Snippet of a tutorial demo ono setting up a free Github review agent using Servflow and Kimi (Bring your own key) The entire process was about 4 minutes in the full video from install to PR reviews. Complete with log analysis on the dashboard. Servflow is in early beta but the aim is to develop a real agent runtime with the ability to package, share and even sell agents. There's a lot of work to be done so watch this space. DM me if you'd like to test this on your projects as i'm looking to gather live feedback as it's being used. Enjoy!

¿kofo?

19,437 views • 1 month ago

ranking videos work because your brain refuses to leave before it sees who's #1, and that's the entire faceless youtube play right now a guy runs ai pet and data-ranking channels, countries by GDP, population, area, WorldData-style, and pulls around $30k a month. some of these videos hit 5M views youtube doesn't check who made the video, it checks whether people watch to the end. a countdown to first place holds them there, so the algorithm keeps pushing it > Claude Code writes the script > Remotion animates it > ElevenLabs does the voice > WaveSpeed renders the visuals a 3D artist in Blender used to spend weeks on one of these. now it's one prompt and a finished animation in minutes, 5 channels in parallel on about $52 a month and two hours a week the barrier used to be the editor. now it's just who hits publish first

ranking videos work because your brain refuses to leave before it sees who's #1, and that's the entire faceless youtube play right now a guy runs ai pet and data-ranking channels, countries by GDP, population, area, WorldData-style, and pulls around $30k a month. some of these videos hit 5M views youtube doesn't check who made the video, it checks whether people watch to the end. a countdown to first place holds them there, so the algorithm keeps pushing it > Claude Code writes the script > Remotion animates it > ElevenLabs does the voice > WaveSpeed renders the visuals a 3D artist in Blender used to spend weeks on one of these. now it's one prompt and a finished animation in minutes, 5 channels in parallel on about $52 a month and two hours a week the barrier used to be the editor. now it's just who hits publish first

Kiyoro

17,223 views • 3 months ago