Nick Fisher

Another Instarig demo. This was originally a high-poly sculpt from ZBrush that I retopologized by conforming a template then transferring vertex colours & UV maps, so I'm pretty pleased that it worked so well out of the box.

InstaRig is now available for pre-order on Gumroad and the Holotype web store! If you want a one-click facial rigging solution for #blender, don't miss this one. This will be released in early November so if you pre-order now, you'll get it much cheaper, and you also won't be waiting long.

Fibo-2.0-Editing is quite good at this task! This is after in-painting the missing areas on the head mesh and then rendering on top of the original scene. It took a lot of liberties (e.g. look at original lighting on the camera left cheek compared with this) but overall it's pretty consistent.

My Codex plan lapsed a few days ago, so I've experimented with DS4.1F instead (and my annual GLM sub that is so slow I don't really bother with it any more). DS4.1F is slower + stupider than Sol. Stupider I can deal with, but slower is difficult to stomach.

I just saw that one of my former classmates was a barrister for Apple on this one. Reminds me why I never went down that path - I'm far too opinionated to be able to sit there and come up with legal reasons to justify why Apple behaves the way it does.

I have a lot of gripes about Australia, but one thing they do really well is consumer protection, competition law, fair trade, etc. Not sure they would have done this if the EU hadn’t ordered it first but either way, good outcome for users. www.judgments.fedcourt.gov.au/judgments/Ju...

Related, I’ve rented places in 5 different cities all over the world and Australia is the best (just when it comes to enforcing landlord obligations - actually finding/affording a place at the moment is terrible). All regulated, govt hold deposits and tribunal resolves disputes.

Inception's Mercury 3 is surprisingly capable (not to mention blindingly fast). I road-tested 2.5 and it wasn't reliable at all, degraded quickly, very dumb, misspelled filenames, language primitives, etc. None of that in 3 so far. I've been pleasantly surprised.

InstaRig, my new one-click facial rigging solution for Blender, is almost ready for release. Here's a quick sample animation, rigged with Insta-Rig and animated with the next version of Audio Lip Sync Pro (also available soon). youtube.com/shorts/BRvOi...

Just to be clear, InstaRig isn't just automatic weight painting; it automates landmark placement and creates a full facial control + deform rig and weight-painting with one click. Some cleanup is to be expected but you can expect pretty good results out of the box for humanoid characters.

Should I bother trying Argon via Antigravity with the Pro plan? Reply yes or no and I will manually tally the results in the next 24 hours because Bluesky still doesn't have polls.

DeepSeek API has been intermittently down over the last 24 hours. In the past, this has often been a hint that a new model is coming as providers rebalance their inference clusters to make way. It's complete speculation on my part, but I'm wondering if DS4.1 Pro is incoming?

Not an artist, so this might be a controversial take. The "12 rules of animation" (squash/stretch, anticipation, etc) are really useful, but they're not set in stone. One of the most successful 2D animation series ever (South Park) literally uses literally none! The Simpsons uses them sparingly too.

Can't find the tweet, but Tim Sweeney just said that Epic Games vibe-coded a replacement for the launcher. To anyone attacking him - this really isn't a hill you want to die on. Their launcher/store was criminally bad, it actually ran slower on my Windows machine than most of the actual games.