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Icecaveman

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Icecaveman last won the day on August 28 2022

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    Blender, C4D, Soon: Houdini
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    Octane, Cycles X, Eevee
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  1. I will continue fire and fluids explorations, if corporatist elites and their puppets don't silence me, or endlessly assault me. And I most definitely will be back to my insanely wicked tech spider and other Sci-Fi explorations over on my other +9,000 view Sci-Fi thread. Life is unpredictable. Hope so.
  2. I'll leave it for now with this re-post from Mash, one of our most respected posters.
  3. I've suspected for some time you were a Maxon schill, wearing thin disguises. Now you are naked. We see what you are. Right on time you came to protect your leader. What a coincidence.
  4. And right on queue, five minutes after my post, JeffH1 and Fritz issue down-votes on my post. Who could have guessed? McGavran was running down the hall for something.
  5. The dev is: Jascha Wetzel, longtime developer at Jawset. TurbulenceFD for those with history here. And in my world...a hero. (Entrepreneurial, insanely bright with a good human heart) admin edit: folks let's keep it civil..
  6. That makes it worse for you. You knew the software engineer, yet refused him central credit. You refused him any credit at all.
  7. I feel pretty good about this one. And I'm also going to guess that you are now running down the hall to find someone who can inform you what simulation software was responsible for that super work. But that's just a guess.
  8. Very nice work by someone. Super work! If I was to guess...the actual simulation technology is Jawset related. TurbulenceFD or it's newer incarnation. I was just on Jascha's website earlier tonight. He's a gem of a human...though perhaps too generous. Interesting, but not surprising that your tweet refuses to credit the real techs that made this possible, only crediting the host app (Maxon) and the renderer (Maxon). Every time you post...you erode my hope for humanity.
  9. Always good to look at oneself self-critically sometimes. So I did, again. I attack corporatism, greed and schilling. Won't stop. I also post here about art and technical exploration--as much or more than anyone. Won't stop. When I can I answer software or business questions to the best of my ability. Won't stop. Not perfect by any means, but generally proud of my efforts here. What I don't do is take constant pot shots at users trying to explore art/tech...out of motive X. Like someone here. Still waiting to see your art. Still hoping you choose to contribute to the community.
  10. It's always a question of value. I automated virtually every organizational process for multiple non-profits. (Work wasn't 3d, or motion graphics). Also helped the execs win government funding through reporting functions. Etc. That's vital bottom-line stuff. I just wanted to emphasize that some non-profits have surprising funding. You have to ask what is the value of such a video to one of these academies? Can they turn it around somehow and make money with it or significantly upgrade their service? Can they protect themselves from legal action? Can they better market themselves with it? How does it uniquely add value? While I agree w/Mike that you don't want to under-rate yourself or your services...at the end of the day the consumer determines the ultimate commercial value of a product. If you get repeatedly ghosted at $200 than that tells you something. Save those contacts for a "Black Friday" sale and recalibrate.
  11. It's a mistake to think "non-profit" organizations don't have money, and won't spend it. Some of them have plenty. Over the past ten years I made about $300,000 from a single non-profit organization...at a nice fixed hourly rate. When I think about it, 2/3 of my income over the past decade is from "non-profit" entities.
  12. -Have you done any market research to see what similar training videos sell for? -Is this a small niche training video, or something with wide audience? -Is this a single entity Academy or a chain of many academies? -Just my opinion, but no way I involve a lawyer until I knew there was significant profit potential. -In business you gotta keep things simple, especially if you don't have much experience on your own. Keep things simple for you and absolutely you gotta keep things simple for your potential buyer. You will quickly scare people away with complicated contracts, discussion of lawyers, etc. Put yourself in the shoes of the buyer. -If you have a decent product it might be better to find a distributor/reseller. It would take a huge amount of time to develop a list of potential buyers and get any traction in winning them over. Either that and jump in with the mindset of learning a lot and profiting (initially) only a little.
  13. The only time BoganTW posts here is to defend Maxon interests. We've all come to see it. His posts are a giggle at this point. Memo to friends: If you swim in the sewer.... might just swallow a turd. Stay above ground, clean.
  14. It would make an interesting poll. Who here read five words of this? People know Mash is highly credible and extremely generous with the Mother Ship. 5,000 word rebuttals trying to trash Mash's post? Most everyone sees through this PR silliness.
  15. This was interesting. Haven't really jumped into any heavy sims yet (just using Dynamic Paint). But working on a plan... Test 1 105 seconds AMD 5950x 48 seconds Mac Studio Test 2 234 seconds AMD 5950x 230 seconds Mac Studio Test 3 1107 seconds AMD 5950x 927 seconds Mac Studio These numbers from my performance comparison (CPU only) of Blender Addon Flip Fluids simulation. Will be running Mantra and FF CPU based simulations on the Mac Studio. Maybe some Houdini CPU sims as well. It's quiet, very energy efficient, and I can keep working on the PC. ( I'll certainly use GPU sims when possible) M1 Macs have very weak GPUs, but have super per-watt CPU performance.
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