Recent content by Nate North

Nice work man! It got me thinking, there is probably a way to make this way easier. I think that in the near future I can build a special pipe for stop motion, where all it does is just remove your hand and fill in the places where it was based on other frames. If so, you could basically do...

Sure but the big question is when rather than if, If I can't find an open source project almost immediately i'll likely have to try and proceed along a similar technology track simply because of the current obsolescence curve, which is completely insane. If you told people 100 years ago that...

I took a look at it, and it looks good. Microsoft doesn't typically open source it's research though, so if I'm going to use this method in engine, I'll have to chase down the academic research papers they derived this from, and rebuild a similar implementation myself. Of course first I'll...

Thanks! It gives me a stronger ability to direct viewer attention to where I want it onscreen, which is really important. In addition, the way this whole thing works, there was a strong tendency for character movements to cause ripple effects on the background drawing (you can see it in that...

I meant to post this previous video earlier, in case anyone was interested. This video is from the 7.3 version, directly preceding the one at the top. This one shows a lot more 3d camera movement, and you can see between the two how the newer method produces a more consistent image. 7.3...

Yeah, me too. Basically, until all stars align I can't do narrative fiction, which is of course the whole point, and the only thing of value. For a while I've had solid visuals of one type or another, but in motion the AI stuff was really rough, and it's taken forever to get things working at...

Some glimpses at the 7,4 tech of the Save Point pipeline. As it gets more complex and heavy (computationally) updates have been slower. Main takeaways here are a more solid animation format with much less "crawling lines" motion. In this version, I'm starting to split the pipeline into...

Of course I have some comment or other about this implementation, which looks good and useful, but I'm going to save myself the effort here and just reply in a seperate post (when I get a chance) that kind of covers a larger point relevant to all this stuff. Basically, I don't feel as much need...

Taking another look at it today, I had a few other thoughts. This is just a sales thing, but I would suggest a more concrete value proposition, and a slightly more random price, ironically, for the purpose of making the price seem less random. I think many people might respond positively to...

I would add that experimentation, iteration, and A/B testing are an integral part of fine tuning your ad spend. In many cases it's possible to get 2 or 3x the results from the same spend, simply by triangulating in over time on the best search phrases, demographics, or ad presentation. If I'm...

The smart money is on google adwords and facebook ads. With ads it's all about bang for buck, and those 2 have historically provided the most audience for the least money per ad. It's been a minute, so I can't be certain of your ROI, but in the past I've used careful targeting and search...

Yeah, when I mentioned framing, I just meant literal frames, web style, not picture frames. It looks good though, and more importantly the images themselves look good. My advice on a next step would be to A. raise your prices to be more competitive, so if your competition is doing 600 a...

Clean, simple, good. I think it conveys the idea well, and is functional for it's purpose. I might add a bit of visual flair, just minor web stuff to make it slightly less minimalistic, but otherwise design is fine. As far as the headshots themselves, it's ok, but I might stagger the images...

I would say that the original Fallout game was at the very core of my creative inspiration, that and Homeworld. Video games were kind of the opposite of Hollywood in terms of cliques. Hollywood gated out people who weren't good looking or wealthy for the most part, and the gaming industry, at...

I might end up being wrong about this, hard to tell at this point, but I'll mount a defense for the 3 Body Problem. Here's why I think there's a chance that this could turn out to be a great show. For those who don't know, this is the follow-up project to Game of Thrones. Same showrunners...