Well, that’s a bummer.

That's more of an exception than the rule.

I teach a college-level animation course and try to work a showing of this in every semester. It's such a raw example of high quality animation, with just enough story to keep it on task. Love this film.

It looks like they’re matching the art style of the original manga.

Ghost in the Shell manga

Honestly, even if it was its own thing, I don’t mind seeing something different rather than just doing the same thing again.

Woah! A JtHM reference in the wild!

I think it depends on the definitions of “classic car” and “addiction”, since he smokes cigars and drives a 1959 Peugeot.

Hello! I'm on mobile and bad at organizing my thoughts, but I thought I'd attempt to tackle some of this.

You can experiment with different types of models and bring them into Cura to see what the results will be yourself, but typically your focus should be on creating "water tight" meshes, where the normals of all polygons face outwardly from the mesh and there are no deleted faces or holes between them.

Individual polygons don't have any thickness on their own, so if you delete faces on a primitive cylinder and bring it into Cura, when slicing it will attempt to "close" the hole left behind in order to make the mesh water-tight.

So, say you wanted to make a cup. You generate a cylinder in Blender of the right size, then delete the faces on one of the caps to create a cup-like shape. When you bring this object into Cura, it will not be able to see the back faces of the polygons inside of the cup, because it's reading the normals on the outside of the cup for those polygons. They can't serve as both the inside and outside, and they have no thickness. So, Cura will try to close the hole at the top of the geometry, basically just giving you the cylinder you started with.

You could fix this by just extruding all of the geometry from your cup version of the cylinder, which will create a perimeter of faces on the top edge, and will leave you with inside and outside polygons. That is what Cura will read to create your shell.

On that note, printed models are made up of effectively two components: shell and infill. The Shell is made up of the outermost layers, which are the strongest. The infill is a pattern that supports the interior of meshes. If you printed a sphere, you likely wouldn't want it to be made of 100% solid plastic because it would be a waste of materials and time. So infill supports the shell with a pattern, kind of like a honeycomb, that is just meant to make sure the inside isn't empty but is strong enough to withstand some force. On average, this is usually only about 15 to 30% density.

There are many great articles and YouTube videos out there about the process, and I'm sorry that I don't have anything to point you towards right now. If you have any questions about anything, I'd be happy try to help as best I can.

Dreams is an "all-animation" version of Procreate.

They built a new engine for it, and it's very scalable, but unfortunately the new tech means that many of the great features from procreate aren't there yet. They've put out a road map to let people know the features they're working on, but it will take some time.

As an animator, even with major features missing, I still use it all the time and don't regret my purchase. I am excited for it to improve, though.

Actually, it's funny you say that since I am colorblind and have always seen it as black and blue. More to the point, the dress is actually black and blue.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dress

Same for me!

I'm hyped as hell, but one of the things that has me especially excited is that I have a few friends who work at Insomniac and even THEY are excited for it. They are all super proud of the work they did, which felt worth sharing.

I'm on lemmy.zip as well and have been happy. Gravitates towards tech, recently defederated a few extremist instances (by a vote), good uptime, and run by some seemingly cool people.

Before a colonoscopy, you typically have to drink something called "prep" to clean out your system. For the better part of a day before the procedure, you drink nothing but this liquid that is meant to clean out your intestines, and it makes you shit your guts out until it's nothing but the clear liquid. It's usually lemon or pineapple flavored, and it tastes awful.

The article goes through some of the available data and doesn't make hard conclusions, nothing that many of the accounts with no followers or posts are likely lurkers, amongst the bots and others.

I know a few people who work for Epic games, and generally they are treated incredibly well. Good pay, good benefits, still able to work from home... Their experience has been pretty much all positive.

However, Epic has been hemorrhaging money for a few years now. As successful as the Unreal Engine and Fortnite are, they've aquired half a dozen companies over the last few years, and offer an insane amount of free content between the Epic Games Store and the Unreal marketplace. They they acquire exclusives for their platform, they host tournaments with prize pools in the millions, and they have been trying to build a strong reputation as a service for gamers and developers that treats them well. It never seemed to balance out though, probably because people just were never really into buying games from them.

I truly don't get the people that outright hate them though, even for their exclusivity grabs. I also might be mildly biased since I know how much worse devs are treated at other companies.

From a cis male's perspective, I think you pass well! Both on initial impression and even critically.

To start, I'm sorry you had to go through that. My spouse and I had similar experiences while trying to conceive.

Loss is not funny to most people due to the contrast, but because of the sheer audacity of it's existence. The gaming webcomic that it was a part of had already run for years, focused around 1-dimensional characters making low-brow jokes and silly violent scenarios centered within mid-2000s "randomness". Suddenly, in 2008, the creator releases Loss, a manipulative, tone deaf strip about one of the worst physical and emotional traumas imaginable, shocking readers and earning infamy. Basically, it's a meme because it's so fucked. It's why people who share it only refer to the work superficially by name or pattern, rather than by content, almost like a tragedy.

Funnily enough, the last administration made some headway there for Medicare recipients... Unfortunately, it looks like that's now been undone.

I didn't realize that it was her! I liked the first game, but this might have made the sequel a day one purchase.