✨XaraVFX✨
Sr. Technical VFX Artist & Houdini Generalist @ Gears for Breakfast #RealtimeVFX
UE5/Niagara/Houdini/Substance3D/EmberGen
they/them 🏳️⚧️
🇳🇱 (derogatory) / 🇺🇸 (also derogatory)
posts about #gamedev, #osrs, #food
- I gotta say my enjoyment of cooking with potatoes has gone up tenfold after I realized they are objectively worse in every way when you peel them and you can just leave the skin on
- okay, NOW I actually beat balatro reached naneinf ( 1.80e+308 ) about halfway through the stack
- it's looking like I might be beating my balatro pb
- Wild how I finally got myself sorted with a psych here in the US to take over my existing diagnoses/meds, and after a single 1 hour introduction appointment she hit me with "Okay, well, it's pretty obvious that you have ADHD and autism!" 💀 Yeah I know but did you really have to say it like that
- Dude not knowing how to draw as a VFX artist STINKS!! I got all this knowledge on rendering, color composition, shading, blending etc etc but then I can't even draw the silhouette of an apple, let alone an anatomically correct human I'm
- Has anyone ever looked at a sharpness filter and said "man this doesn't look like complete ass actually"? like wtf is their intended use case
- Seen people who used escapism from politics as a reason to move from X to bsky, only to then be actively engaged with politics on here, just on the opposite side of the political spectrum 🙃Hot take but I don't wanna see that stuff either. I want to look at gamedev and animals
- Every facet of my life is already exposed to this stuff, I just want *one* place where I don't have to be reminded of bad things that're going on in the world
- I have officially beaten Balatro (gold sticker on all jokers) I am the new John Balatro
- in the Baron waiting room, money going up and down like one of those crypto rugpull charts Also general Balatro appreciation post this game rocks (I have 700 hours on Balatro it is ruining my life)
- Not gonna lie, staying up till 3am, after having watched the entirety of the Mandela Catalogue, in an unlit apartment that recently had a bunch of furniture moved around, was not the play. Thought I was done for until I realized it was just our fat Miku plush sitting on top of a storage cabinet
- Choose your fighter - Banana (custard) ice cream w/ chopped dark chocolate - Banana (custard) ice cream w/ white chocolate and candied pecans - egg-free ferrero rocher ice cream w/ hazelnut and caramel sauce - egg-free vanilla ice cream with crushed oreos (I love my kitchenaid) #cooking #food
- using Houdini for VFX is both a blessing and a curse. On one hand you get a non-destructive workflow that allows for rapid iteration and adding variations... But then on the other hand there's the rabbit hole of "I haven't baked anything into the vertex alpha channel yet..."
- (My favorite is baking the distance from the vertex to the center of the polygon in 1.5 extra UV channels\ so you can calculate where the center is at runtime. Very useful for collapsing polygons outside of the camera frustum in the vertex shader to avoid pixel shader evaluation!)
- What a good time to arrive in the US of A as an immigrant! 🦅🦅 Time to quote some random bible verse in my bio to build up a rapport as "one of the good ones".
- Got a winner
- man.
- Crazy how much better the available meat options are in the US, anyways here's a slow-cooked chuck roast 👀 #food #cooking
- If you're Dutch/German and ever see someone talking about how good Raising Cane's sauce is, it's 1:1 just mayo + curry ketchup + salt + msg lol
- After years of paperwork, stress, and waiting, I finally landed in the United States as a lawful permanent resident 🥲 it's actually over
