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For anyone who is thinking about purchasing XParticles, Insydium are having a half price sale for NAB. Here's the link to the page on the Insyduim website: https://insydium.ltd/news/nab-2019/

Can finally show some work I did for the Walking Dead Season 9 last year. This was a pretty dreamy project. The props department needed a sword designed for the Jesus Monroe character. They gave me basic dimensions that they had tested out with the actor and some research from the comic and previous action figures and then I was let loose from there. I designed three different options - this is the one they ultimately went with. Stitching, seams, etc in the renders could be better overall, but the whole thing went together in just two days.

As a bit of a drone pilot myself, for a long time I have wondered when 3D mapping would get here. And indeed it just has ! DJI have just released Terra, which will turn your UAV footage into 3D digital assets complete with textures ! As a company I don't like DJI, and don't fly their machines myself (2 non-pilot-error flyaways mean I can't trust them), but they remain the people with the most budget to throw at ideas like this, and are surely the frontrunners of making it a consumer-level thing. Read more below... https://www.dji.com/uk/dji-terra CBR

MAXON has three conference pass tickets for FMX 2019 up for grabs. This exciting prize gives you access to all four days of FMX 2019, from April 30 to May 03. These passes normally cost 400 Euros each! Enter to win: http://maxon3d.com/win-fmx-pass/en/

This uses a python node kill.zip and I used trial and error...

I am desensitized to the sort of violence in this to a large extent, not because I see a particularly excessive amount of it, but because I get sucked out of the horror of the moment by the technicality of the achievement. Those creatures in Ep 1 were UTTERLY brutal. but were one of the most impressive things I've seen for while, and any empathy I may have for the predicament of 3D characters is largely stymied by the brilliance of the execution (and I mean that in both senses !). It's damn hard to realistically smash a 3D face, and bloody reds are a great colour scheme :) The sheer volume of violent content available isn't necessarily indicative of a world that is more violent than it used to be (aggregate long-term data suggests the very opposite; that now is the least violent time in all of earth's history - there is slow, gradual upward curve toward enlightenment values and away from violence. Personally, I value that the only violence I am exposed to is safely delivered to mostly fictional characters in our entertainment media, where of course it has a justified place as one of the more unsavoury parts of the human condition...