Though I do need to shout out @getplasticity.bsky.social for having an installer that just works and @sidefx.bsky.social for having a really, really good and quick tech support team!

My experience as well. Everything that can be installed through the software center runs rock solid. For everything that still needs a manual install (aka all professional software) you have the Linux experience from 10 years ago. Still more enjoyable than Win11 tho...

Awesome! Those mask options look really good as well!

That's so cool! I did not know that context aware scale also used a shortest path algorithm behind the scenes! And accumulating values reduces the probability of paths moving sideways along a row?

I wonder if you could stretch an image by inverting the map and adding pixels with averaged values...

Find shortest path, but the contrast between pixels acts as cost? Or is it more complex than that?

Macht Halbmetallica dann elektronische Musik? 🤔🤔🤔

Awwww thanks!!

And if you‘re in any shape, way or form interested in actually using these tools for their intended purpose, please take a look at the other talks as well! So much cool stuff presented by so many great people!

www.sidefx.com/houdini-hive...

Basically every german motion graphics artist

I've previously tried and failed multiple times trying to explain APEX from a non animator/rigger perspective, so I'm really really really happy to have Magnus from Tumblehead helping us out here!

Pro Tip for getting those @raphaelrau.bsky.social style hyperrealistic electronics renderings: Spend 3 months designing electronics, doing cad, 3d printing, soldering, glueing and coding to just take a photo instead. (May take slightly longer though 😅)