In Oahu Hawai'i destressing. Awesome to see so many other poly people around me. #oahu #hawaii

#oahu #hawaii #fujifilm

I doubt there are any folks from Kansas City, MO, USA around but if you like loud music, come see us and support the touring band, Bog from Denton TX, with a few bones so they can get to the next stop. All our cover goes to touring band as usual. #kansascity #diypunk #noiserock #garagepunk #show #music

Design proposal for a new animation system for Blender

Blender Developers Blog

Animation Workshop: June 2023 — Blender Developers Blog

Speeding up animators (and others working with animation data) by reducing manual data management.

Sounds interesting. What are your thoughts on these thoughts? #b3d #blender #animation

Blackjack: Rust-based procedural 3d modeler https://github.com/setzer22/blackjack Check out this early development of a rust based modeler. This is kind of taking the base concept of Blender's geometry nodes and Houdini. So really would be a a good base to develop very powerful features in the future. Looking very cool so far. #rust #3d #nodes #libreart #procedural

GIMP 2.99.16 Released: GTK+3 port complete

GIMP - GIMP 2.99.16 Released: Wilber Week 2023 edition!

Release news for version GIMP 2.99.16

Read about the updates including that the port to GTK+3 is now finally complete. (I know GTK4 is already a thing, but that move is much easier now that they are on 3)

Test. Ignore.

Sorry lots of releases the last couple of weeks. Can't forget the amazing Godot just released 4.1 stable. This game engine is GOOD TO GO for your next game. Check it out:

Godot Engine

Godot 4.1 is here, smoother, more reliable, and with plenty of new features – Godot Engine

Four months after the release of Godot 4.0, we are excited to bring you Godot 4.1 — an update with a focus on stability, performance, and polish.

#Bevy just came out with a new release, 0.11, for those #rustaceans keeping track and wanting to try out this promising but heavily in-development game engine. Read details here:

Bevy 0.11

Blender

Blender 3.6 LTS Release — Blender

Blender Foundation and the online developers community are proud to present the last release in the 3.x series, Blender 3.6 LTS!

Everyone's favorite creative software project is on 3.6. READ ALLL ABOOUUT IT *chucks papes*

Trailer for an old student project I made over a decade ago using all open source software including #Blender, #Krita, #Inkscape, and #Kdenlive. This was before freestyle line rendering was merged into the main program, and the dev, TK, was fixing bugs I was reporting. Super nice dude. (note: freestyle only used in a few parts)

Vimeo

Good times! I'm old.

Communities

nostr.kiwi - communities for everyone

Communities for everyone

So I created a community on nostr.kiwi to test things but I noticed the community only shows up on nostr.kiwi . Should I have created it via satellite.earth instead? Should it matter where the community is created? Link to community:

nostr.kiwi - communities for everyone

Communities for everyone

Attention users or lovers of #blender, #krita, #darktable, #godot, #inkscape, #opentoonz, #olive, #kdenlive, #bevy, #gimp, #lmms, #natron, #enve, etc etc I set up this community so people can share news, art, ideas, etc about free open source art and authoring tools. I'm sure there will be individual communities for many of these softwares but since nostr is new I figured it's nice to start with a wider net. Even in the living term I like the idea of this community as often they will be used together. Hope to see people join or post.

Super bummed about Rick Froberg passing away. As a side note Hot Snakes is one of the few bands to put out an album after a crazy long hiatus, after they got old, and it was as good as any other record. Always liked all his projects. Dude lived with full kreative kontrol.

Nostr is a better architecture than activity pub, but my 2 cents on improvements. It needs to have a user friendly authentication story that accounts for the reality that pkeys will be compromised or lost. Also, i think nips should have an established friendly term that is encouraged to use instead of the nip number for user facing clients.

Does dis work? Testing site. Here's a random photo from my photography archive.