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I used my mate's camera and Autodesk Matchmover 2014, which looks like it hasn't been updated since 1994. Still though, the algorithm is alright. It give me 2D location information that I use to translate 2D controls that make 3D aim transformations. When I did my innovations project, I tried to get fancy by calculating the rotation and position of the head via the four corners. My math was dumb and it looks terrible and it led to terrible nights of manual tweaking. 7 minutes of animation is not something you'd want to do in a single week. We're going to be borrowing a kinect (cheap stereocam), to do some proper good facial capture which is more based on blendshapes than bone controls. The software we're using has a bonus of not being coded by me, but instead competent people who know about things like pointers and for loops. Would it be terrible of me to post a rig I'm working on, in hopes of someone helping me with a problem? It's related to the most recent picture I posted. Basically expressions aren't always being evaluated, especially when you undo or enter a number into the channel box. I made a button which corrects it when it happens, but the animator on my team is going slowly crazy with it and so am I, trying to fix it.

I've gotten into the habit of turning the brightness down on my monitor, particularly at night. That might help with Antichamber, people sometimes forget you can do that.

She's a woman.

Hello everybody. My name is Kodie, and I haven't touched cracked cocaine in over 22 years now. I feel good about my sobriety and I hope that we can all help each other out.

Oh yeah, that's another thing. I've been consistently impressed with their support. I asked them about something stupid a while ago and they responded pretty quickly and helpfully.

A while ago I beat this and thoroughly enjoyed it, there's probably a few things I haven't found, but I'm pretty satisfied leaving it. I felt it lasted about the right amount of time for me. Fez was one of those games that I had to 105.3c% complete or whatever getting all the secrets got you, since each secret felt a lot more special and hand crafted. The secrets here were cool too, but didn't really instigate a strong enough drive in me to actively seek out, but they were definitely cool when you accidentally stumbled upon them; in Fez accidentally stumbling on stuff felt more like, 'oh, I'll have to come back here later', rather than, 'oh shit, look at this cool stuff'.

Nice. I always look forward to when these come out, shame it's the last one! Are you planning on doing any more in the future or you taking a break for a bit?

Ugh, sorry about that first post there. I was trying to do an all nighter to fix my sleeping habit, sorta worked but not as much as I hoped; sure was fun though. Anyway I'm nearly done with the rigging now.

I'll be glad when this rig is done.

Me too, I also went from BeyondPod to Pocket Casts and I don't regret a thing. The latest update is a bit messed up for me though, what with making it take longer to add things to playlists and their new "now playing" thing not really working that intuitively.

What? Your mind is seeing what you want it to. I just censored the bad Let's Play because I was a bit embarrassed to be caught watching it.

Oh jesus. You reminded me of an existing set of horrible imagery and placed in a whole new set of terrifying thoughts in one fell swoop.

In England I think I could probably start on £30k, which is like $50k, but I don't know if I could actually make $50k in San Francisco. I don't really know the deal with inflation or the value of technical artist sort of jobs over there. Something I'm rather curious about all you San Franchinigans, where's the furthest you've all travelled? I hear that it's common to not really travel outside of America due to costs and the fact that America is bloomin' huge.

Geez, sorry I'm not an amazing shelf maker.

The sooner phones charge from walking down special hallways and we have those multi layer mega batteries, the better.

I find the games themselves to be the main source of drain, though I suppose anything extra doesn't help. I tend to only really use it on long journeys anyway, so I can usually keep my phone powered by the train plug or a portable battery pack that requires the button to be pressed every 12 or so seconds in order to function. The battery on the controller I have seems to last forever though, and it charges up pretty quickly. I think KitKat may have some battery improvements too.

So how many pages of this thread are dedicated to Rick and Morty? Definitely my favourite cartoon ever. That isn't a hyperbole, this cartoon is objectively, subjectively, my favourite cartoon. Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland come together to give birth to a baby of twisted tropes and a cheeky continuity.

I've been off from proper gymming for some time now. It's so much easier when you have a gym buddy who has a gym in his garage. There's like this vicious loop of ignorance going on too, if it's raining/cold, I don't want to go to gym, but I don't want to use my weights either because I'm paying to go to the gym god damn it. Anyway, what I've found super helpful for keeping healthy is that Fitness something app that lets you keep a journal of everything you eat. Thanks to that, I found that I was consuming like 3% of the RDA of iron, which was the reason for the sores on the side of my mouth and probably a few ulcers too. Ironically what cut out my iron was switching from wheat to oatabix, because my mate listened to a podcast that says wheat makes you impotent with all cancer. Switching back helped loads. I was a bit stuck, because I picked up a cashew nut habit to sate my iron hungers, but it was about a million calories per bag, and only a fraction of what I needed in iron. I thought eating would become an anxiety burden, but I actually find myself enjoying food more, now that I know I actually need it. When I was 15 or so, I was my own age in stone, pancakes for dinner, chicken nuggets for tea. It sorta fucked up my food life, constantly stuffing my face with the worst shit, from crisps soaked in coke to chocolate covered salted potato sticks. Now I feel like the logical part of my brain has more control over what I put in my face than that weird part that tells me to never stop putting chocolate bars in the deep fat fryer.

Shelves count as gaming spaces right? I made a shelf. It didn't work. So I made it again. I didn't like how I had to turn a full ninety degrees to be reminded that I still exist, so I put in a mirror and added more temperatures using nothing but a milk bottle.

Got a few more months left here. I like it, it has an appropriate amount of shelves.

That Japanese robot that dances sometimes is pretty cool. It's a shame how it hasn't really changed much in 10 years. If you combine a bunch of existing technology you could get something really cool. Rip out the head from the Japanese robot and replace it with one of the 360 cameras. Slam the Oculus Rift on, and that £400 camera-less mocap video game suit to pose the robot mini-dude. Imagine, you are the robot.You'd have 1:1, albeit delayed, control of the robot dude, and you'd get all that weird brain presence going on. You could experience the world from the view of a baby that's capable of sweet dance moves. Maybe you combine this idea with that giant Michael Jackson robot that he wanted to build. You could experience the world from the point of view of a god.

It's crazy that I recognise 90% of the comics in this thread. Oglaf is both great and nsfw and/or not safe for watching with grandparents. I made a webcomic once, with crazy gif and layering shit. Only took me about 5 hours per page, but I was pretty terrible at visual communication when I started. It's a shame more online comics don't take advantage of the digital mediums, but the ones that do are usually pretty radical as all of the hells.

Has anyone tried combining photometry and a HMD? I feel like that would do something crazy to your sense of presence if the virtual world is actually 1:1 with the real world, with a few tweaks here and there. Also get some eye tracking in there to put shadowy figures in places you're not directly staring at. Peripheral vision and it's horrible processing and visual limitations, hasn't really been played with in games/truck simulators.