LillyByte

One thing I hate about animation software... how everything is so 'input box driven'.... Yeah, no fuck that shit. Here's how my rotation constraint editor works in my software. Clear. Straight forward. You can see what the constraints are at a glance... and its also how you edit them.

I've been working on my animation software today... Because, there's still weak areas I need to fix. And the puppeteer mapping system needed some love to make procedural animations work flawlessly for animated rigs that have more than two legs... or weird legs... like centipedes, etc.

The best thing about my animation software... It has made every other animation software I ever used dead to me... even the ones I loved. The last hurdles are polishing the weight painting... and finishing Procedural Walk for anything other than bipeds. Then I have THE best indie animation tool.

It took just about a year... But, I have a 'true' artist-first workflow, nothing that 'feels' over-engineered... and every feature has self-contained UI that doesn't poison the main animation workflow.

I heard someone say, "GenX was 30 at 12, and still 30 at 50." I've never heard anything so accurate.

This is a great skit, and it isn't wrong. Nobody wants to release a game near it, around it, or within exploding distance of it. The whole game industry considers this to be "Ground 0" of a nuclear level detonation, lol. www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5Zb...

I keep getting these seemingly random bills every month or two... And every single time I'm like, "WHY AM I GETTING BILLED FOR SOMETHING!?" Then I realize... oh, it is for a domain I bought and forgot about. I'm a domain hoarder. I need an intervention.

The same people who say they support you are not the same people who will actually support you by buying your products. Those two rarely meet. Once your bills are due... look at who actually buys your product vs the ones who praise you. Praise never pays the bills.

In my 40+ years of programming... I've built business software (that's still running to this day for some reason), art software, game engines, MUDs, MMO servers... and more... all of which was created without AI. I'm not an AI dev... but a dev that now uses AI because its finally good enough.

If you love doing everything by hand for the love of it, by all means; do what you love. Nobody is forcing you, you can do what you want. But if you need to make a living, a business; the idea there's going to be a big enough market for "100% hand crafted" games... there's not. That's a delusion.

In my 40+ years of programming... I've built business software (that's still running to this day for some reason), art software, game engines, MUDs, MMO servers... and more... all of which was created without AI. I'm not an AI dev... but a dev that now uses AI because its finally good enough.

I disliked AI programming stuff when it was useless. But, unlike irrational people... I kept testing "Is it good enough yet?" The answer was 'No' for a few years... barely even worked as an assist. Now, since about two months ago... the answer is 'Yes'. It is good enough now.

In my 40+ years of programming... I've built business software (that's still running to this day for some reason), art software, game engines, MUDs, MMO servers... and more... all of which was created without AI. I'm not an AI dev... but a dev that now uses AI because its finally good enough.

So, there's now a slew of major indie devs who were previously anti-AI... posting YouTube videos and having Twitch streams about how AI is now capable of doing everything they do. And they are going to be using it to have any chance of keeping pace. You can only avoid reality until it hits you.

Now, we are in a realm where we don't need game engines. I no longer need a game engine... I even stopped building my own, because it is wasted effort. I can, now, sufficiently work with an AI to build a custom engine per game, to do exactly what that specific game needs with no work-arounds.

So, there's now a slew of major indie devs who were previously anti-AI... posting YouTube videos and having Twitch streams about how AI is now capable of doing everything they do. And they are going to be using it to have any chance of keeping pace. You can only avoid reality until it hits you.

So, there's now a slew of major indie devs who were previously anti-AI... posting YouTube videos and having Twitch streams about how AI is now capable of doing everything they do. And they are going to be using it to have any chance of keeping pace. You can only avoid reality until it hits you.

So, there's now a slew of major indie devs who were previously anti-AI... posting YouTube videos and having Twitch streams about how AI is now capable of doing everything they do. And they are going to be using it to have any chance of keeping pace. You can only avoid reality until it hits you.

I've spent 40 years learning skills. I don't lament the loss. I've always embraced the next level of tools when they were viable. I will continue to do the same... I will embrace the next level of tools as they become viable, not before. It doesn't change what I love.. it changes my approach.

I've spent 40 years learning skills. I don't lament the loss. I've always embraced the next level of tools when they were viable. I will continue to do the same... I will embrace the next level of tools as they become viable, not before. It doesn't change what I love.. it changes my approach.

AI is over there making little campfire burnpits in the forest... meanwhile, streaming social media has the entire forest lit up on fire... and everybody is like, "LOOK AT THE CAMPIRE! IT IS KILLING US!"

I dunno why watching a horde of hundreds of untextured/unanimated zombies while invisible is fun....

I don't know where they are going... They are groaning and growling like they were agitated... So, I think a distant thunder cloud is drawing them.

I just bought hundreds of dollars worth of audio and assets... BECAUSE I AIN'T GOT TIME FOR THESE SHENANIGANS