the matrix was a documentary
Ended up doing a remaster of the 30 second motion capture animation I published on Valentine’s Day. Perhaps a few frames that could be smoother, but this feels like basically production quality to me. Got about 200 videos clips from the studio recording, and this one loop took
Taking breaks from the Hell that is indie game development, to make music videos using Suno and Midjourney. Not expecting much action, or any money, even while I think it’s lit, since too many people perpetually butthurt (likely for reasons they themselves don’t even understand). But, I’m having
Signed up on Suno to get an idea if AI-generated music could work for my projects. Started with the free tier and was surprised how well it works. Granted, it’s very much a “gacha mechanic” where you type a short prompt and get something with a very wide
Got a new demo video up with the almost final motion capture pipeline and alternate costume for the character. Despite looking highly erotic, it’s not a hentai game. Not sure the project really fits exactly any specific genre, though might best be described as a chatbot (though perhaps
Made some improvements on the motion capture pipeline using iPhone recorded video and processed with QuickMagic and Cascadeur. Using LiveLinkFace and all compiled together in Blender. Getting close to final quality, though there are still some kinks with the animation (I think the rig is working, this is
Started testing a new character design for the real-time project. Even though I was happy with the artist I had, rigging and retargeting the animation was turning into a massive headache due to the extreme amount of bones. These would allow things like clothing physics and costumes, however
Calling the character for my real-time project done. Had paid an artist for the model (this is one configuration, there’s various outfits and styles), just took some effort to get everything connected on Blender. I’m using tools designed for Unreal Engine, so manual effort was necessary to get
New demo showcasing a higher quality model with improved image-based lighting. Using spherical harmonics here (SH2), which I had from the beginning, but added automatic dominant light extraction when loading an HDRI image. This detects the sunlight, ambient environment lighting, and controls the shadowing. So basically everything in
Made a new concept visual for my untitled debut game from Outmode on my OpenGL/WebGL engine, Degine. Generated using Midjourney 7, this is fairly close to my vision, and also matches the art for the game that was already completed. Planning on using this as a test to
Rebooted work on Rendepth, my stereo 3D media player. Decided to go with SDL3 as the base, as it has a new cross-platform renderer (Vulkan, Metal, DirectX12), which will make things a bit easier. Needed something lightweight, so felt that starting from scratch rather than repurposing Degine code
