Nik
nnnenov.bsky.social
Nik
@nnnenov.bsky.social
Sheffield based Sr. Motion designer / multimedia Artist, freelance mainly with Moment Factory, specialising in projection mapping, vfx, real time visuals, creative coding, microcontrollers, TiXL, VCV rack, Max MSP, etc. https://linktr.ee/nnenov
my first code contribution to #TiXL, @newemka.bsky.social for guiding me through the implementation and PR process, it feels so good to contribute and be part of the team!
November 3, 2025 at 11:51 AM
pixtur showed me how the SDF shader nodes work under the hood in C#, so thanks to him I was able to make my own custom SDF spatial distortion effect by sampling simplex noise with xyz offsets, the stairs in my scene look so much better now
#tixl
October 31, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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October 9, 2025 at 12:35 AM
houdini tip:
Did you know you can set specific sops how they are displayed in the opengl viewport?
Or you can use the 'Visualize Properties' SOP and set it there, it will carry over in OBJ level
#houdini #tip
October 21, 2025 at 9:23 AM
its going to be a short music video, im almost done blocking out the cameras for the first pass
October 20, 2025 at 9:23 PM
seamless looping little flame spritesheet I made in TiXL for my SDF scene
October 19, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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The Triomphal Arch of Titus in Rome
By : Franz Von Lenbach (1836-1904)
German Painter
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt
October 18, 2025 at 7:19 AM
October 18, 2025 at 1:06 AM
the merge packed node will automatically assign names to each merged packed prim based on its node name in the network view #houdini #tip
October 17, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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This is your chance to watch the all-time classic ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST on the
big screen in a new 4K restoration. Milos Forman's dramedy won five Academy Awards in 1976, including Best Picture. Now showing in select cinemas across the UK and Ireland.
October 17, 2025 at 7:16 AM
More messing with SDFs with #tixl
October 16, 2025 at 8:10 AM
October 8, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Quint Buchholz (German Artist, born 1957)
"The Cat's Assembly", 1995.
Ink, Pen on Paper, 21.5 × 13.5 inches.
Private Collection.
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt
October 7, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Dendritic sort of setup I started messing with, inspired after the TiXL meetup on discord last night
October 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Was messing about a bit today with this node in TiXL, MoveToSDFsurface, which i can adjust to be relative to individual point scale, the result technique is really cool, excited to mess with it further
October 5, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Eyvind Earle (American, 1916–2000)
"Grazing in Peace", 1970.
Serigraph on Paper, 55.6 × 69.2 cm.
Private Collection.
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyAr
October 4, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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NIGHTMARE IN RED (1981)
Acrylic Over Pastels - 25 ½” x 20”

Tales from the Nightside is a collection of macabre stories by Charles L. Grant. I accepted a commission to do the cover art in the gloomy winter of 1980-81. 1/4
October 3, 2025 at 1:04 PM
My submission to this year's minute MAPP Festival:
It was my first time animating for video/laser projector and I'm really happy with how it turned out. Also, my friend Simon Girard did an incredible job on the sound design www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wybf...
#houdini #projection #mapping #3D #lazers
Intersection [ subission for MAPP Festival 2025 ]
This was a quick but fun 1 minute animation I created for the Minute MAPP 2025 festival in Montreal this year. It was my first time designing content for video/laser projector and I'm really happy…
www.youtube.com
October 1, 2025 at 8:15 AM
some late night messing with TiXL, im trying out the new SDF mesh fragment field feature with a bunch of fun render comp tricks with some different render targets and re-use camera youtu.be/-OS_HSJPu0k
#tixl #tooll #realtime #3D #fvx #animation
September 28, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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very successful porting this for pathtracing usage in Daedalus, neat to be able to look at these patterns with so many spheres
September 22, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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🔭 Up from the Earth: Gigantic Jet Lightning

Image Credit: NASA, Expedition 73, Nicole Ayers

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25090...
September 9, 2025 at 8:00 AM
@simonfarussell.bsky.social just had this exact same experience, saved me a bunch of time thanks to this ancient forum post hehe www.sidefx.com/forum/topic/...
Sprite Rendering in Mantra | Forums | SideFX
www.sidefx.com
September 6, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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The sad remnants of a once grand and massive high school, now abandoned and decaying, in St. Louis, Missouri. It never ceases to amaze me how much detail and effort we once put into our public education, both in richness of curriculum and architecture...

#abandoned #urbex #EastCoastKin #photography
September 4, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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🔭 NGC 7027: The Pillow Planetary Nebula

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing: Delio Tolivia Cadrecha

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25083...
August 31, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Still - Ashborn (Realtime animation, Winner at Evoke 2025)
YouTube video by TiXL
www.youtube.com
August 25, 2025 at 9:56 AM